Back on the very last day of 2020 I wrote about John Updike’s Thurber dog. Here’re some edited excerpts: _____________________________________________________________________________ For those of us who treasure Thurber’s art, there is I would suggest, nothing more wonderful than a Thurber drawn dog. In Updike’s Introduction to Lee Lorenz’s The World of William Steig, he tells us that in 1944, when he
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Music isn’t mentioned too often on this site, but I can’t resist talking, for a moment, about two songs that James Thurber was especially fond of. According to Thurber biographer, Harrison Kinney, “Bye Bye Blackbird” “remained Thurber’s favorite [song] from the day it emerged in in the mid-twenties.”* Another contender: the less well known “Who.” According to Kinney, “Who” is
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No matter where I go with my New Yorker colleague (and spouse), Liza Donnelly, the spirit of James Thurber’s work somehow tags along with us. Last Sunday Ms. Donnelly and I went bowling with some family members — the first time in at least 20 years since we set foot (feet?) in a bowling alley. Seems not a whole lot’s
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Attempted Bloggery’s Copy Of Peter Schickele’s “Thurber’s Dogs” After finding a blurry image of this CD while roaming the internet, I went looking for a better one to show today, and wouldn’t you know it: a Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery already did a piece on this disc back in July 2017. Don’t know how I missed it, but I’m
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