I could say that I’m not obsessed with the New Yorker, but that would be wrong. If you don’t believe me, go here, or here, or here, or here, where I’m in the midst of a 30-part examination of the writings and life of James Thurber. Back in the day, E. B. White was almost…
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Wolcott Gibbs
Wolcott Gibbs is practically unknown today, except to that small and no doubt dwindling band who know a great deal about the early days of the New Yorker. Founder/editor Harold Ross once told James Thurber “There wasn’t anything the three of you [Gibbs, Thurber, and E.B. White] couldn’t do. You could have got the magazine…