Personal History: Thurber’s The Years With Ross Up in Maine, briefly, as summer ends, I wandered this morning over to a row of books in the cabin we’re in and was surprised to see a paperback copy of James Thurber’s The Years With Ross. I didn’t
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Audio Of Interest: from WSHU Public Radio, August 11, 2025, “Ordinary Lives” a short (audio) essay, in which David Bouchier cites James Thurber’s most famous (non-seal) character, Walter Mitty. Video Of Interest: From Ohio State University, “Thurber’s Columbus” — a short charming video about Thurber from his alma mater’s library’s Special Collections. –Above, an original Thurber drawing from OSU’s
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If you live in or near Columbus, Ohio (where James Thurber was born waaaay back in 1894), you can honor him this coming Saturday while helping out Thurber House by attending a fundraiser. All the info here. About the fundraiser from The Columbus Dispatch (where Thurber worked before heading off to the bright lights and big city): “The event will
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Yet another previously-unknown-to-me Thurber cover popped up on social media yesterday. Google translate helpfully informed me that Malos tiempos means “bad times” or possibly “hard times” or “evil times.” Out of all those choices I had a pretty good idea that this was a Spanish edition of My Life and Hard Times. Happily, Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography
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