Live Interview Tonight With Liza Donnelly! Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in 1982, will be interviewed live tonight at 8. Information above. ____________________________________________________________________ The Spill’s Thurber Library The Spill library began with The Thurber Carnival when I was in my mid teens. The books shown here are the foundation of the Spill’s library, collected over many decades,
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A few Thurber things gathered here this last Thurber Thursday of the year… First up is Attempted Bloggery on a recent interesting Thurber original sale… “Hiding From The Dog Walker: James Thurber Preliminary Cover Art.” ______________________________________________________________ A UK Last Flower To the left is The Last Flower cover we’re used to seeing in the United States (published
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Thurber Around The Globe A favorite Thurber-centric book here at Spill headquarters — and one I’ve cited a number of times — is Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State Press, 1968). I was looking through the very end of it the other day when I came across the “Translations” section. I’ve happened upon Thurber books in other
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Three Thurbers Up For Grabs At Swann There are plenty of interesting drawings by New Yorker artists offered in the upcoming Swann Illustration auction (ending December 15, 2022). The artists include Charles Addams, Lee Lorenz, Mischa Richter, George Booth, Charles Barsotti, and more. What I always go to first are the Thurber drawings. This time ’round there are three.
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