My New Yorker colleague, Roland High, alerted me to a site loaded with video interviews conducted for Adam Van Doren’s 2000 documentary, James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times. These are unedited video interviews of, among others, Frank Modell, John Updike, Lillian Ross, and Roger Angell. All the interviews are Thurber-centric. __________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December
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Last Thurber Thursday I wrote of receiving a tower of Thurber files from the one-and-only Michael Rosen. I’ve been s-l-o-w-l-y going through the files, reading news clippings I’d never seen before (so many!). In a 1940 article by Jack Sher “Meet James Thurber” there was this fascinating exchange [slightly abridged below] between Sher and Thurber. Mr. Rosen also seemed
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A Tower Of Thurber Files Yesterday’s Spill mentioned a stack of Cartoonist PROfiles donated to the archives. This week also brought several boxes containing several pounds of research files on James Thurber from another Spill booster, the fab Michael Rosen, editor of A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art of James Thurber
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Over the years just a few Armed Services Editions (ASEs) have found their way into the Spill library. Until the other day, when I decided to look through the entire list of ASEs, I was not aware of all the Thurber books produced in the series. Below: I’ve included the two books he co-authored (but have not included The New
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