A Button Sometimes the simplest things are the best things. Take for instance the Thurber dog eraser in the photo shown here. It came from the Thurber House gift shop I don’t know how many years ago. I’ve never used it as an eraser, and now, even if I wanted to (and I never will), it’s too late, as it’s
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A few Thurber Thursdays ago I wrote about a 1977 Thurber boxed set produced in England that caught my attention. It arrived from across the seas this week; the seller even did a little bit of repair to the box (thank you, thoughtful bookseller!). I slipped the books out of their cardboard box and let them sit on my work
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Somewhat like a digital version of throwing a dart at a map, and then exploring where the dart lands, I went to The New Yorker‘s database this afternoon thinking I’d explore a random issue for Thurber drawings. I chose 1935 (for no reason), and found, amazingly, there was an April 20, 1935 issue. Here’s what I found, Thurber-related, in that
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Boxed In I’ve had these two Thurber boxed books on the shelf for awhile. Both were gifts. Further Fables For Our Time was the first to land here, given to us by a 100 year old woman we knew from the area. It’s a single copy of Further Fables in a hard cardboard case. The second box was handed over
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