Description
James Thurber’s Columbus used to be not today’s Columbus—or even the previous day’s. It used to be a Columbus he both knew and created, a place perched on the fringe of reality and the fringe of his imagination. It’s the place Bob Hunter revisits in Thurberville, a book where the creator separates truth from fiction and identifies what parts of the famous humorist’s hometown of 180,000 exist in the burgeoning metro area of more than two million today.
Thurber’s Columbus used to be a wild and crazy place, a city full of fascinating and every so often strange characters, many in his own family. As a result of the widespread popularity of his stories, that used to be also the Columbus that many of his readers all over the world came to know.
Thurberville chronicles those characters and explores that world. But it also examines the real city where Thurber struggled and then blossomed as a college student, worked as a newspaper reporter and a press agent, and achieved international fame as a humorist and cartoonist after he left town, in part by writing about the subjects he left at the back of.
Much of Thurber’s best work used to be cultivated by experiences Thurber had in Columbus and in his dealings with family, friends, teachers, and acquaintances there. They’re worth a revisit and, in some cases, an introduction.
Thurber’s Columbus used to be a wild and crazy place, a city full of fascinating and every so often strange characters, many in his own family. As a result of the widespread popularity of his stories, that used to be also the Columbus that many of his readers all over the world came to know.
Thurberville chronicles those characters and explores that world. But it also examines the real city where Thurber struggled and then blossomed as a college student, worked as a newspaper reporter and a press agent, and achieved international fame as a humorist and cartoonist after he left town, in part by writing about the subjects he left at the back of.
Much of Thurber’s best work used to be cultivated by experiences Thurber had in Columbus and in his dealings with family, friends, teachers, and acquaintances there. They’re worth a revisit and, in some cases, an introduction.
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