Thurber Tonight: An encore presentation of "The Night the Bed Fell" from "My Life and Hard Times"

Some nights she threw them all.

by Ken

We eventually covered most of Thurber's 1933 fictionalized autobiography My Life and Hard Times (see the series index), starting with the "Preface to a Life." The book, which was reproduced in whole in the invaluable 1945 anthology The Thurber Carnival, may have been too successful for the author's eventual liking, because for a lot of readers it set the tone of inspired goofiness which they then wanted him to sustain the rest of his career, while there were lots of other kinds of writing he wanted to do -- often very funny, yes, but not quite as uncomplicatedly zany as My Life and Hard Times.

Still, I can't think of a better place to start our week of Thurber "encore presentations" (with apologies again to Car Talk's Tom and Ray) than with the first of the autobiography's ten chapters, "The Night the Bed Fell."


FOR OUR ENCORE PRESENTATION OF
"THE NIGHT THE BED FELL," CLICK HERE


THURBER TONIGHT (including WOODY ALLEN, ROBERT BENCHLEY, BOB AND RAY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, S. J. PERELMAN, JEAN SHEPHERD, and E. B. WHITE TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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