Personal History…An Important Book I suppose it must say a lot about how important Thurber’s Years With Ross is to me — especially this particular paperback edition — that I can recall the exact moment noticing it, fifty years ago, on a metal display book rack outside a store in Cape May, New Jersey. I forked over the $1.25
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Can You ID This Cartoonist? Before we move into Thurber country, there’s a cartoonist mystery afoot. The below was forwarded to the Spill the other day with the hope I might know who this cartoonist is. I’ve already asked two of our longest-contributing cartoonists (they began contributing to The New Yorker in the 1960s), as well as the magazine’s
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I love spending time meandering around the database that’s the core of The Complete New Yorker.* While the database is not 100% accurate, it can’t be beat for getting a grip on what appeared in the magazine from February of 1925 thru December of 2004. This morning I took a look at the numbers for all of James Thurber’s New
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Lotsa Dogs One of the pleasures of falling for James Thurber’s art is enjoying the abundance of dog drawings he left us. When I think of Thurber, it’s his dogs that come immediately to mind. I’m not going
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