When the Moon Hits Your Eye a 2027 Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor

You may or may not know this about me, but humorist James Thurber is a formative writer for me, along with other of his Algonquin Round Table pals like Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. The delightful play of his humor, both in writing and in cartooning, was something I took to right away, speaking to me across decades. He was pretty great! Also, and independently, The Thurber House, the non-profit literary arts center and museum located in Thurber’s Columbus, Ohio home, annually gives out the Thurber Prize for American Humor, in the categories of writing and cartooning. It’s considered one of the premier prizes for literary humor in the United States, and has been given to folks like Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, Calvin Trillian, Alexandra Petri and Patricia Lockwood among others. John Hodgman, Sloane Crossley and Dave Barry (among many others) have been finalists. As of this moment, I am neither a winner nor a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. But I am, officially, a…