Thurber Thursday: Bill Murray Reads Thurber

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 reading the piece at Philadelphia’s Academy Of Music, April 4, 2018. A related story here; a Library Of Congress article about “If Grant…” here (includes a link to “If Grant…” online).

For those looking for the piece in a Thurber collection (and/or elsewhere), you can find it in The Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze (Harper & Bros., 1935); The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Bros., 1945), and in A Subtreasury Of American Humor Coward-McCann, 1941) ed. E.B. White and Katharine S. White.

Want to hear another reading…here’s Keith Olbermann

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