| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xx, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259). |
| Contents |
Courting the muse, Thurber at work: Speaking of his own writing ; The theory and practice of criticizing the criticism of the editing of New Yorker articles (with a lighted candle for Wolcott Gibbs) ; Unfamiliar misquotations ; If you ask me (the envelope of miscellany) -- The book-end, Thurber on other writers: Excerpts from "The book-end," 1923 ; More authors cover the Snyder trial ; If you ask me (Thomas Wolfe) ; Recommended reading ; What price conquest? ; Taps at assembly ; If you ask me (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) ; The Odyssey of Disney ; Peace, it's wonderful ; Tempest in a looking glass ; Voices of revolution ; "Don'ts" for the inflation ; Notes for a proletarian novel ; Ave atque vale ; Recollections of Henry James ; The preface to "The old friends" -- Belles lettres and me, Thurber at large in the writers' community: The harpers and their circle ; A visit from Saint Nicholas (in the Ernest Hemingway manner) ; An evening with Carl Sandburg ; No more biographies ; How to tell a fine old wine ; What price a farewell to designs? ; The literary meet ; Memoirs of a banquet speaker -- A mile and a half of lines, Thurber on his drawings: Answers-to-hard-questions department ; Speaking of drawings ; Glimpses of the art conference -- Matinee and evening, Thurber on plays and playwriting: Tonight at 8:30 ; Letter from the States ; A farewell to Santa Claus (or, violins are nice for boys with chins) ; One man in his time ; Is there a killer in the house? ; Producers never think twice ; Roaming in the gloaming ; Thurber reports his own play, The male animal, with his own cartoons ; The quality of mirth -- The world laughs with them, Thurber on the state of humor: And the world laughs with them ; Groucho and me ; Speaking of humor ; The state of humor in the States ; How to tell government from show business ; On the brink of was ; Thinking ourselves into trouble ; A biographical sketch of James Thurber / by James Thurber. |
| Summary |
Presents a remarkable body of previously unauthologized drawings and writings by James Thurber that present the beloved humorist as reader, journalist, satirist, comic, and personal respondent to the written world around him. |
| Subject |
Thurber, James, 1894-1961.
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Thurber, James.
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Thurber, James, 1894-1961. (DE-588)118757407
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Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Cartoonists -- United States -- Correspondence.
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Thurber, James, 1894-1961. (OCoLC)fst00052331
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Cartoonists. (OCoLC)fst00848081
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Humorists, American. (OCoLC)fst00963739
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Records and correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01423917
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| Added Author |
Rosen, Michael J., 1954-
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1989
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Thurber, James, 1894-1961. Selections. 1989. Collecting himself. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, ©1989 (OCoLC)644604968 |
| ISBN |
0060161353 |
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9780060161354 |
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