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U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh’s hopes of joining the Democratic presidential ticket with Barack Obama might have come down to his wife’s service on seven corporate boards. Bloomberg News reported today that Susan Bayh’s board directorships on companies like Eli Lilly, Wellpoint, E*Trade Bank and Emmis

ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: Ernest Hemingway said early to bed and early to rise and somebody else has all the fun. John Ciardi said early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labour. James Thurber said early to bed and early to rise makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.

The Rabbit People Who Caused All the Trouble by Kurt Schulzke A lady from San Angelo calls me once in a while, offering leads on stories. She refers to the FLDS — in a loving kind of way — as “the rabbit people” and to Judge Walther — in a not-so-loving way as “the Barbie Doll Judge.” Reading stories tonight to the kids, I ran across this one by James Thurber.

Short Story Monday I watched High Fidelity last week and was amused to hear Rob Gordon (John Gordon) rank just about everything into a Top 5 lists. I'm partial to the Top 10 list myself, but I appreciated watching someone else waste their thoughts as I do.Favourites are a common theme: favourite t.v.

Clever lad, that Alan Silberberg. He is the 2008 Thurber House Children's Writer in Residence. He will be writing and teaching there, in Columbus, Ohio for four weeks. He (and Milo) look so happy! His novel Pond Scum is a treat for middle grade readers. Congratulations to Alan!

Clever lad, that Alan Silberberg. He is the 2008 Thurber House Children's Writer in Residence. He will be writing and teaching there, in Columbus, Ohio for four weeks. He (and Milo) look so happy! His novel Pond Scum is a treat for middle grade readers. Congratulations to Alan!

My Life and Hard Times's price decreased by 7% from $7.33 to $6.84 at Buy.com. This hugely funny autobiographical memoir that takes into account the crumbling of empires, talks largely about small matters and smally about great affairs . Mostly it is about the wildly incredible things people do when they think they are acting ...

I’ve decided to write an occasional post about some notable novels that I’ve read in the past couple of years. This is partly due to the fact that I’m currently trying to read three books at once and not getting very far with any of them. Thus, I don’t have anything to review at the moment.

When James Thurber saw the current New Yorker cover, he said, "If Barry Blitt and David Remnick want to knowwhat satire is, they should spend more time readingThe Onion and less time reading the New Yorker."

One of the best children's books ever is James Thurber's The 13 Clocks. A prince must complete an apparently impossible quest to save a princess from an evil duke: from this standard fairy-story plot Thurber produces a wonderfully odd and engaging story written with a strange and compelling internal rhythm--the whole book is like a blank verse poem, but typeset as prose.