A Boxing Day to Hide In
This story first appeared in the New Yorker in January 24, 1931. I have mentioned James Thurber here before, specifically my theory that he’s what Franz Kafka would have been had Franz Kafka been a gentile from Columbus, Ohio, rather than a Jew from Prague. I don’t know of another non-Jew who creates neurotic humor the way Thurber did. He’s like a control group for Kafka.
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