Boxed Thurber The only two Thurber boxed books in the Spill library are shown below (a modern box is out there, but I’m only focusing on books published during his lifetime. The first set, produced in September of 1959, boxes The Thurber Carnival and Alarms and Diversions. Carnival was originally published in 1945; Alarms and Diversions in 1957. This box
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The photo below left appeared in yesterday’s post. An astute observer, the author, Steve Stoliar, emailed me about the ceramic thingy (I’m not exactly sure what it was used for…a planter maybe?). It reminded him of the rabbit backing up from Thurber’s “Our Pet Department” (found in a number of places. The Thurber Carnival is where I first saw it).
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Here’s something fun just added to the Spill‘s archive: a two record set, released in 1967 by The Listening Library, The World Of James Thurber. I’d never heard of this until last week; I was lucky enough to find a copy online (the album cost about the same as a pound of Maxwell House). As you can see by the
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Out front of the pack of New Yorker cartoon tales is E.B. White’s tinkering with a Carl Rose idea, helping it along to become one of the most famous captions in the magazine’s history. Tinkering with captions was one of White’s many jobs at the magazine, but until the other day I didn’t realize he had taken at least one
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