Don’t know what your previous experience with James Thurber is, but he was always one of those writers teachers would have us read…maybe because he’s at the level we were at in terms of language, but I think mostly they just liked him. He’s a smart writer, kind of like a more whimsical HL Mencken, and also like HL Mencken, he’s the kind of writer who rabble-rousing Left-leaning folk like to like. I happen to like him as well, and it’s not so much that […]