A Yale Record New Yorker Parody Issue With “Thurbs” This 1961 Yale Record New Yorker parody, The Yew Norker, is a recent addition to the Spill’s New Yorker parody collection mentioned here the other day). I was pleased (and surprised) to find the below Thurber parody drawing. Pleased and surprised because new Thurber drawings hadn’t appeared in The
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An Uncollected Thurber Piece (w/Drawings) I recently pulled a small paperback, the August 1937 For Men — and Men Only, out of a collection of cartoon books generously donated to the Spill, and immediately spied Thurber’s name at the bottom. Inside is a Thurber piece titled, Let Psychologists Alone. I’ve no idea how unusual it is to run across a
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An Anchor In A Hallway On a recent visit to The New Yorker’s offices at One World Trade Center, my wife (and New Yorker colleague), Liza Donnelly, and I were a few minutes early for our appointment. So we plunked ourselves down in a small seating area at the end of a hallway on the 23rd floor, to kill a
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An oddity! Thurber’s drawing on the cover of Sports Illustrated (November 7, 1960) seems to have eluded Edwin Bowden’s essential James Thurber: A Bibliography. It also does not merit a mention in any of my other go-to Thurber books (the biographies and letters books). The one place it is mentioned, and appears, is the fab A Mile and A Half Of Lines:
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