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It’s also the birthday of novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood (books by this... 27 Aug 2013 | 09:47 am
It’s also the birthday of novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood (books by this author), born in Cheshire, England (1904). He’s best known for the novels he wrote about life in Berlin, just bef...
It’s the birthday of French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (books by this... 27 Aug 2013 | 09:31 am
It’s the birthday of French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (books by this author),born in Rome, Italy (1880). http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/08/26
It was on this day in 1968 that the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago. It had... 27 Aug 2013 | 09:29 am
It was on this day in 1968 that the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago. It had already been one of the bloodiest years of the decade. That February, the North Vietnamese launched their d...
Found Poem by Howard Nemerov after information received in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 v 86... 27 Aug 2013 | 09:23 am
Found Poem by Howard Nemerov after information received in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 v 86 The population center of the USA Has shifted to Potosi, in Missouri. The calculation employed by auth...
It’s the birthday of novelist Martin Amis (books by this author), born in Oxford, England... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:09 am
It’s the birthday of novelist Martin Amis (books by this author), born in Oxford, England (1949). He’s written many novels: Money (1984), London Fields (1989), The Pregnant Widow (2010), and Lionel As...
And it’s the birthday of the eccentric King Ludwig II of Bavaria, or “Mad Ludwig”... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:05 am
And it’s the birthday of the eccentric King Ludwig II of Bavaria, or “Mad Ludwig” or “The Swan King,” as he was called,born near Munich (1845). When he was 15 years old, Ludwig attended the opera Lohe...
It’s the birthday of conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
It’s the birthday of conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1918). When he was 40, he became the youngest musical director ever in charge of the New York Philharmon...
The End by Victoria Redel At the end of the marriage they lay down on their big, exhausted bed.... 27 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am
The End by Victoria Redel At the end of the marriage they lay down on their big, exhausted bed. It was crowded with all the men and women they had ever loved. Of course their fathers and mothers we...
It’s the birthday of short-story writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (books by this author),... 25 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
It’s the birthday of short-story writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (books by this author), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1899). After studying in Europe, he moved back to Argentina and got a job at...
It’s the birthday of novelist A.S. Byatt (books by this author), born Antonia Susan Drabble... 25 Aug 2013 | 06:38 am
It’s the birthday of novelist A.S. Byatt (books by this author), born Antonia Susan Drabble in Sheffield, England (1936). She grew up in a literary family, and she was a shy girl. She said she didn’t ...
