Live Interview Tonight With Liza Donnelly!
Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in 1982, will be interviewed live tonight at 8. Information above.
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The Spill’s Thurber Library
The Spill library began with The Thurber Carnival when I was in my mid teens. The books shown here are the foundation of the Spill’s library, collected over many decades, with a few just recently added. What you see is not a complete set of Thurber books — the missing titles are just a few feet away (The Seal In The Bedroom, The Last Flower, and Fables For Our Time are on a shelf with oversized books. Many Moons should be on the oversized book area as well — it’s being kept horizontal until I can round up more Brodart). You’ll see a few books not 100% Thurber: Men Can Take It and How to Raise A Dog In The City — those are filled with Thurber illustrations, and are essential additions.
Thurber’s A-Z entry:
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website