Thurber Thursday: Thurber’s Dogs

Looking through very old newspaper articles yesterday I came upon an ad for Thurber’s Dogs, a 1955 collection of Thurber dog-centric writings and drawings (the first edition is shown above). I love the simplicity of this ad:  Here are some other editions through the years: Speaking of Thurber dogs, I was going through a box of New Yorkers the other

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Thurber Thursday: Robert Benchley Reads Thurber’s “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”

Here’s a rainy (snowy in some parts) day audio piece. Taped in 1944 for CBS radio:  Robert Benchley reads James Thurber’s classic, “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” (the story originally appeared in The New Yorker, March 18, 1939). ___________________________________________________________________________ James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces

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Thurber Thursday: E.B. White On A Thurber Drawing: “…The Most Haunting Caption I Have Ever Read Under Any Picture…”

As I continue my revisit through Harrison Kinney’s massive biography of James Thurber, I continue to find moments I overlooked the first time I read it. A for instance: On page 853, Mr. Kinney quotes E.B. White’s review of The Thurber Carnival in PM (the issue of January 4, 1945): “The book contains the picture of the woman speaking into

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