James Thurber - Alarms and Diversions (pdf)

James Thurber - Alarms and Diversions (Harper and Row, 1957). 398 pages.

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Thurber is another one of those nearly-forgotten geniuses of American humor based at the New Yorker. Worth reading.

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Another collection of Thurberiana, unique in that it contains a peppering of the author's favorites, also an introduction to his "serious comedy." Among the 32 stories lurk joyosities such as "The Lady of Orlon," "The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber," "Get Thee to a Monastery" and "The Moribundant Life, or Grow Old Along with Whom?"