Listening To Thurber It turns out that listening to Thurber is as hilarious as reading Thurber’s writing or looking at Thurber’s drawings. I say this having spent twenty minutes or so at our everything table you see above listening to my wife (and New Yorker cartoonist colleague), Liza Donnelly read Thurber cartoon captions (“everything table” includes having meals there, birthday
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It’s always exciting to come across a Thurber item I’ve never seen before. Saw this on Ebay last night: And on the inside, this bio, with a photo I don’t recall ever seeing before: ______________________________________________________________ Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously.
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Leading Up To Thurber A long-time habit of mine is re-reading (I’m tempted to call it re-studying as well). It began with comic books, and has continued on to this very day. I don’t re-read things I don’t enjoy — I just focus on the good stuff. In the small but excellent library of books devoted to The New Yorker‘s
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Back in December I posted a piece about a new addition to the Spill‘s archives: a Richard Farrar Thurber dog scarf. That scarf has now been joined by another Thurber dog scarf. This latest addition, bearing no ID tag, is much longer, and wider than the Farrar scarf: 31″ x 68 3/4″ Can’t wait to see what other Thurber
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