Published 91 Years Ago This Week: “What Have You Done With Dr. Millmoss?” This week marks the 91st anniversary of the publication of James Thurber’s classic, “What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?” It appeared in the The New Yorker issue dated July 14th, 1934. Regular Spill readers might recall that I’ve mentioned this particular Thurber drawing quite a lot
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The photos below of James Thurber showed up on Ebay last year, offered within one lot by an Egyptian seller. I’ve no idea who took these photos, when they were taken or where. I don’t know if they were published. If someone does know, please contact me. What I do know is that I find them fascinating. There’s a casualness
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Two weeks ago today I Spilled about getting hold of the 1950 21st anniversary edition of James Thurber & E.B. White’s Is Sex Necessary? (and not too long before that I mentioned buying a 1990 modern edition). This past Sunday, after some time browsing at my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn, I was about to head out the door when
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Article Of Interest: “What’s So Funny About James Thurber?” When I first came across the title of this article by Holly Brubach that appeared in the November 1982 issue of Vogue, I thought, “Oh brother, here we go — another rethinking of Thurber’s place in American letters.” But once I got hold of and read the two page article (available
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