What It’s Like Under Thurber’s Spell I’ve been under Thurber’s spell so long I hardly remember what it was like in the beforetimes. Well, that’s not really true: I remember subconsciously looking for graphic guidance in the pre “Dr. Millmoss” years. Comic books, comic strips, fine artists, underground artists — they all had their inspirational moments. Each helped in some
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Thurber’s UK Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze On the left above is the US edition of James Thurber’s fifth book, 1935’s The Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze. On the right is very latest Thurber addition to the Spill library: the UK Hamish Hamilton Middle-Aged Man. The cover drawing is the same —
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It is always a very happy day when a James Thurber original drawing arrives at Spill headquarters. I fell for the one shown below some weeks back. I’d never seen it before, and never seen one like it before. Thurber’s somewhat apprehensive man is so great. I loved the moon and the star. There was something oddly positive about
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Here’s another installment in the Spill series of New Yorker-centric maps (links to the previous maps appear at the bottom of this post). This time ’round the subject is James Thurber in Connecticut — his places of residence in The Nutmeg State, from 1929, living in Silvermine, to the end of his days, living in West Cornwall. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber
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