Stiller’s Walter is a Life photo archivist-or, in his dull description of his own job, a “negative assets manager”-who’s anxious about being downsized as the magazine moves to an all-online format. Maybe this long incubation period accounts for the movie’s strange out-of-time quality: Though it’s apparently set in the present day, the film chronicles the folding of Life magazine as a print publication, an event that happened more than a decade ago. © 2007 Simon & Schuster (E-bok): 9780743226219This Walter Mitty feels like a creation that’s taken too long to fight its way out of its creator’s brain (and indeed Stiller and others have been trying, with quixotic dedication, to get the film made for almost two decades). His candid comments in these personal letters, whether lighthearted or melancholy, comprise an entertaining, captivating, informal biography - pure, wonderful Thurber. Included in the book are Thurber drawings never before published. White, his close friendship with Peter De Vries, and his tragic last days. The Thurber Letters traces Thurber's progress from lovesick college boy to code clerk with the State Department in Paris and reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, through his marriages and love affairs, his special relationship with his daughter, his illustrious and tumultuous years with The New Yorker, his longstanding relationship with E. In addition, Harrison Kinney, noted Thurber biographer, has located a number of Thurber letters never before published. In his letters we find startling revelations about who he really was, and why the prism through which he viewed the world could often be both painfully and delightfully distorting.įor the first time, Thurber's daughter Rosemary has allowed the publication of many of the extremely personal letters he wrote early in his life to the women he was - usually hopelessly - in love with, as well as the affectionate and hilarious letters that he wrote to her. Like most good humorists, he was prone to exaggeration, embellishment, and good-natured self-deprecation. His prodigious body of work - fables, drawings, comic essays, reportage, short stories, including his famous 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' - all define Thurber's special and prolific genius. In this comprehensive collection of his letters - the majority of which have never before been published - we find unsuspected insights into his life and career.

Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books - for both adults and children - remain as popular as ever.

⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May.

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