Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Is Sex Necessary — The 21st Anniversary Edition Hot on the heels of bringing home a modern edition (if you consider 1990 modern) of Is Sex Necessary, I came across a very reasonably priced 1950 “Coming Of Age” edition (hardcover), celebrating the book’s 21st anniversary. One has to wonder if this odd anniversary celebration
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Attempted Bloggery On A Recent Auction Of Thurber Dogs A Spill favorite site, Attempted Bloggery has taken a long look at a recent auction of two framed Thurber dog drawings (and related materials). I was keeping tabs on this auction (as I do on any auction that has Thurber drawings) and was hoping there might be a slim chance of
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Yesterday afternoon, a “funny” moment: I was going through a manila folder at the bottom of a box full of James Thurber-centric manila folders (all courtesy of Michael Rosen) when I came across this undated news clipping by James Thurber that began: “Just the other afternoon, I was going through an old manila envelope containing the odds and ends,
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Two Unusual Covers I check Ebay everyday looking (hoping) for something Thurber I’ve never seen before. Yesterday two books showed up. Both have unusual covers (unusual in that I never would’ve guessed they had anything to do with a Thurber book). A coincidence: all of the titles shown were written by Thurber, but not illustrated by him (his eyesight was
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