The Monday Tilley Watch, which usually appears in this place at this time, will be back next Monday as we’re in the second half of the last New Yorker‘s double issue week (the issue dated July 9 & 16, 2018). In its stead, this brief puzzlement: A Hmmmm About Spinach Above: Carl Rose, E.B. White, A Can of Spinach
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John Lennon: “I was about 15 when I started Thurberizing the drawings.”
Back in December of 2013 Ink Spill ran a piece, “John Lennon & James Thurber: A Sunnier Connection.” To celebrate John Lennon’s birthday, I’m re-posting that piece, albeit in slightly edited form. Anyone familiar with John Lennon’s and James Thurber’s drawings can’t help but see some cross-pollination from Thurber to Lennon. Lennon’s drawings, published in 1964’s In His Own
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This coming Sunday, the 8th of December, marks two anniversaries of note, one happy and the other not at all happy. The happier one: James Thurber was born that day in 1894. The unhappy anniversary: it was on that day in 1980 that the former Beatle, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. Other than that
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