Thurber’s Favorite Thurber Book (And E.B. White’s Favorite Thurber Book) — This account derived from Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography, and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Hard Times, and Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography It was September of 1939; Germany had invaded Poland the first day of the month. Thurber and his wife, Helen, were
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A Facebook Page For Bill Woodman Word this morning from Mike Lynch that Bill Woodman’s daughter has created a Facebook group in honor of her father, who passed away February 12th. Visit the page here. And…check out Mike Lynch’s recent post: “Sketching With John Klossner and Bill Woodman” Read Ink Spill’s Woodman appreciation here. ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest:
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Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
Read moreI love being surprised on my daily jaunts through Ebay. The below, Love Is A Funny Business, is an example of one such surprise. Hitherto unseen (by me), it features interesting cover art and is credited to “The Kings Of Hilarity.” The Kings are big names: Frank Sullivan, E.B. White, Arthur Kober, and of course, the fellow celebrated here every
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