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Article: Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber. (book reviews)
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- Insight on the News
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- January 23, 1995
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Neil Grauer's life of James Thurber does what the recounting of a writer's life ought to do: It sends the reader to the bookshelves - though Thurber, in many households, does not languish in the dust.
By labeling his book "a life," Grauer avoids the literary minefield that the genre of biography has become. A good many biographers take it as their duty avidly to shine their six-cell flashlights into their subjects' cerebral attics and basements, into the dark and dank corners of both - especially the dank corners, sometimes mostly the dank corners.
But Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press) is more an extended magazine ...