It seemed to take forever for video of James Thurber to show up. My fascination (understatement) with the person and his work began when I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until Adam Van Doren’s James Thurber: The Life and Times documentary film was released (on DVD, in 2000) that I got to see video of Thurber talk and (briefly) walk as he sat for a 1956 interview with Alistair Cooke in Thurber’s “great good place” — his home in Cornwall, Connecticut. Unfortunately, that film only included a portion of Cooke’s interview with Thurber. Fast forward to 2011 and the release of Omnibus American Profiles which includes the entire interview. Just a few years ago the Omnibus interview was posted onYoutube. See it here. The aforementioned Van Doren film and Omnibus collection are still around, each available for the price of a coffee and doughnut.
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Tom Toro to Talk In Ohio
From The Vindicator, March 12, 2020, “Cartoonist Talks at Trumbull Town Hall” — the cartoonist is Tom Toro, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. Visit his website here.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Andy Dubbin on going outside.