His World and Welcome to It

There's a wonderful profile by Robert Gottlieb of the late James Thurber (ostensibly a review of a collection of his letters) at the New Yorker website. I'm not that familiar with Thurber--I read some of his humorous short stories and enjoyed some of his cartoons when I was in high school, but I don't think I've read a word of his since then. Maybe I will now.

Whenever I hear the name "James Thurber" I think of a short-lived TV sitcom from the 1970s that I loved, called My World and Welcome to It, which was loosely based on Thurber's life as a writer and cartoonist. I wish one of the nostalgia channels (TV Land?) would show it again some time.