Poking around Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968) I came across wording I’d surely seen before but didn’t really think too much about. In the entry for Thurber & Company, published in 1966, five years after Thurber’s death, we see this: —Seven captions taken from A Thurber Carnival … are substituted for the
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
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So Much To See I recently came across this Facebook page of Thurber photos while Thurber surfing on the www. I’ve never seen so many hitherto unseen (by me) Thurber covers before (there’s other stuff here too, but book jackets are in the majority). A real treat. Mixed in among the more familiar book jackets are plenty of foreign
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Exploring the ole world wide web last night I ran into this video of the actor Bill Murray reading Thurber’s 1930 New Yorker piece, “If Grant had Been Drinking At Appomattox”… Here’s how the piece looked (in part) as it appeared when first published in The New Yorker, December 6, 1930: Here’s a link to a video of Mr. Murray
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