Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Tale Blazer’s Edition of Thurber’s “The Greatest Man In The World” And “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Two of James Thurber’s New Yorker stories, “The Greatest Man In The World” and “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” back-to-back in the form of a 1979 teaching/learning publication, recently came this way courtesy of the fab
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Thurber Karneval! It almost never fails that when I go looking for something “new” James Thurber-wise on the internet, I find it. This Czechoslovakian edition of The Thurber Carnival, out in 2000, is not new, pub date-wise, but new to me (it’s new-ish relative to the pub date of the first edition Thurber Carnival in 1945, shown below the 2000
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Dorothy Parker delivered a most memorable introduction to James Thurber’s The Seal In The Bedroom And Other Predicaments (originally published in 1932). For me, she captured, as best as anyone, the Thurber zeitgeist. Here are three key moments from her introduction: “Mr. James Thurber, our hero, deals solely in culminations. Beneath his pictures he sets only the final line. You
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A Calvacade Of Thurber In Ohio How fun! From The Lakewood Observer, “Wordstage Presents A Tribute To Ohio Author, Illustrator And Humorist James Thurber” __________________________________________________________________ If you’re In Ohio, visit The Thurber House Read about it here. ____________________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work:
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