tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post3889718663617788167..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: James Thurber: THE YEARS WITH ROSSTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71894065893799445862010-06-04T13:27:05.188-04:002010-06-04T13:27:05.188-04:00Or you, Patti?
And I invite you all to check out ...Or you, Patti?<br /><br />And I invite you all to check out the Gopnick sometime. I haven't read too many of his essays, but this one is a remarkably asinine way to introduce a book.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-81691524744454746342010-06-04T13:24:11.998-04:002010-06-04T13:24:11.998-04:00I'm not being harsh with Thurber...Gopnick is ...I'm not being harsh with Thurber...Gopnick is being condescending to Thurber. My opinion of Ross has been shaped largely by this book (though my memory of the lesser HERE AT THE NEW YORKER, written during the Shawn regime by a Shawn stalwart, wasn't even as backhandedly complimentary of Ross), and by similar anecdotes and accounts from others, including the famous James M. Cain resignation (Ross detailed his assistant Cain to go instruct a contributor in Social Hygiene, and Cain decided upon facing the contributor that this was the camel's back straw for him).<br /><br />As for THE NEW YORKER, it's a consistently self-congratulatory magazine lo these many decades, that only infrequently deserves the credit it gives itself. This has been a constant at least since the 1970s, perhaps the only constant in the last fifteen years.<br /><br />Bill, ever come across a memoir quite like it?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-20636675889215008732010-06-04T13:21:28.201-04:002010-06-04T13:21:28.201-04:00I remember reading it too.I remember reading it too.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-82148622796369516872010-06-04T12:58:35.858-04:002010-06-04T12:58:35.858-04:00I have this, have read it a couple of times, and a...I have this, have read it a couple of times, and also the <em>Selected Letters of James Thurber</em> . I think you're being too harsh with Thurber, Ross and <em>The New Yorker</em>, but we all have our own opinions and experiences with the magazine and personalities within. <br /><br />I'd also recommend the E.B. White volumes: <em>One Man's Meat, The Letters of E. B. White The Essays of E.B. White.</em> To me, they go hand-in-hand with this book.Richard R.http://brokenbullhorn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-37714311430010955292010-06-04T12:13:34.328-04:002010-06-04T12:13:34.328-04:00I read this one a gazillion years ago and really e...I read this one a gazillion years ago and really enjoyed it. I still have the tattered old paperback.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.com