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Lleh
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Lleh asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 year ago

James Thurber wrote a story about a writer who never wrote anything.  Anyone know the name of the story or where I might find it?

Update:

Everyone thought the man was a genius. His writer friends took up a collection to send him someplace for inspiration. I think he  came back a couple days later very drunk. 

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    The story is "Something to Say." The man's name was Elliot Vereker. Story can be found in the Library of America collection of Thurber, p. 272.

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    I thought the name of the book is The Worthless Liar.  Then I remembered, that's actually a book about Joe Biden.

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