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February 8
1926... set billions of years in the future: the winner of an Arsenal vs. Real Madrid match, a treaty between Turkey and Japan, and, most poignantly, the sort of question that novelists have to decide every day: "On February 8, 1926, at Santhià, in the Province of Vercelli ... Signoraina Guiseppina Pensotti, aged twenty-two, leaves her home at quarter to six in the afternoon: does she turn right or left?"
— Mar 21, 2026 12:37PM
1926... set billions of years in the future: the winner of an Arsenal vs. Real Madrid match, a treaty between Turkey and Japan, and, most poignantly, the sort of question that novelists have to decide every day: "On February 8, 1926, at Santhià, in the Province of Vercelli ... Signoraina Guiseppina Pensotti, aged twenty-two, leaves her home at quarter to six in the afternoon: does she turn right or left?"
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April 4
1924 No one was entirely happy when Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose bohemian magnetism drew D.H. and Frieda Lawrence—among many other writers and artists—to Taos, New Mexico, took a run-down ranch she had given her son and bestowed it on Frieda instead. The Lawrences did enjoy being homeowners for the first time in their restless lives but felt beholden to Luhan, so in exchange they gave her the manuscript to ...
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1924 No one was entirely happy when Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose bohemian magnetism drew D.H. and Frieda Lawrence—among many other writers and artists—to Taos, New Mexico, took a run-down ranch she had given her son and bestowed it on Frieda instead. The Lawrences did enjoy being homeowners for the first time in their restless lives but felt beholden to Luhan, so in exchange they gave her the manuscript to ...
Judi
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April 3
1920 Zelda Sayre, the daughter of Anthony Dickinson Sayre, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Minerva Machen Sayre, of Montgomery, Alabama, wed Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the son of Edward Fitzgerald, formerly of Proctor & Gamble, and Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald of St. Paul, Minnesota, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Mahattan. The bride was a graduate of Sidney Lanier Hight School; the groom ...
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1920 Zelda Sayre, the daughter of Anthony Dickinson Sayre, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Minerva Machen Sayre, of Montgomery, Alabama, wed Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the son of Edward Fitzgerald, formerly of Proctor & Gamble, and Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald of St. Paul, Minnesota, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Mahattan. The bride was a graduate of Sidney Lanier Hight School; the groom ...
Judi
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April 2
1913 Kurt Wolff, Franz Kafka's new publisher, wrote to the author, "Please be good enough to send me a copy or the manuscript of the bedbug story."
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1913 Kurt Wolff, Franz Kafka's new publisher, wrote to the author, "Please be good enough to send me a copy or the manuscript of the bedbug story."
Judi
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April 1
1956 On the morning of April Fool's Day Edward Abbey began his first workday as a national park ranger by stepping out of his government trailer and watching the sun rise over the canyon lands of Arches National Monument in Noah, Utah. Outfitted with trailer, truck, ranger shirt, tin badge and five hundred gallons of water, Abbey was left more or less alone for six months, which he recorded journals ...
— Apr 17, 2026 05:23AM
1956 On the morning of April Fool's Day Edward Abbey began his first workday as a national park ranger by stepping out of his government trailer and watching the sun rise over the canyon lands of Arches National Monument in Noah, Utah. Outfitted with trailer, truck, ranger shirt, tin badge and five hundred gallons of water, Abbey was left more or less alone for six months, which he recorded journals ...
Judi
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March 31
1934 "I should like to meet the pilgrim halfway," Marianne Moore wrote to her friend Ann Borden a librarian at Vassar who had a young poetical "protégée" who wanted to meet the famous poet. And so Miss Moore came in from Brooklyn and met Elizabeth Bishop, the Vassar senior, at the New York Public Library, where Bishop overcame her nerves enough to invite Moore to the circus. Moore replied that she ...
— Apr 16, 2026 11:27AM
1934 "I should like to meet the pilgrim halfway," Marianne Moore wrote to her friend Ann Borden a librarian at Vassar who had a young poetical "protégée" who wanted to meet the famous poet. And so Miss Moore came in from Brooklyn and met Elizabeth Bishop, the Vassar senior, at the New York Public Library, where Bishop overcame her nerves enough to invite Moore to the circus. Moore replied that she ...
Judi
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March 30
1935 Clifton Fadiman, in the New Yorker, on William Faulkner's Pylon: "I've read it twice, once slowly and again in a burst of desperate speed, on the assumption that the first time I might not have seen the forest for the trees. It has lived me a dozen ways. Reaction analysis: one part repulsion, one part terror, one part admiration, three parts puzzlement, four parts boredom.
— Apr 16, 2026 08:04AM
1935 Clifton Fadiman, in the New Yorker, on William Faulkner's Pylon: "I've read it twice, once slowly and again in a burst of desperate speed, on the assumption that the first time I might not have seen the forest for the trees. It has lived me a dozen ways. Reaction analysis: one part repulsion, one part terror, one part admiration, three parts puzzlement, four parts boredom.
Judi
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March 29
1948...as a direct cause of juvenile delinquency. Wertham first made his name by setting up a free psychiatric clinic in Harlem, supported by his friends Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but, as David Hand describes in the Ten-Cent Plague, through his Senate testimony, his book Seduction of the Innocents and his influence on a new Comics Code he became best known last the source of the comiscs industry.
— Apr 16, 2026 06:16AM
1948...as a direct cause of juvenile delinquency. Wertham first made his name by setting up a free psychiatric clinic in Harlem, supported by his friends Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but, as David Hand describes in the Ten-Cent Plague, through his Senate testimony, his book Seduction of the Innocents and his influence on a new Comics Code he became best known last the source of the comiscs industry.
Judi
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March 28
1888 "At Walt's this evening," Horace Traubel began. They had known each other for a decade, but on this day Traubel began to record his visits with Walt Whitman. The poet was sixty-eight, slowed by a stroke but still dynamic. His young Boswell was twenty-nine, a printer and poet in the spirit of his hero, whose last four years he chronicled,unprettified as Whitman requested, in the nine volumes of Walt...
— Apr 15, 2026 11:32AM
1888 "At Walt's this evening," Horace Traubel began. They had known each other for a decade, but on this day Traubel began to record his visits with Walt Whitman. The poet was sixty-eight, slowed by a stroke but still dynamic. His young Boswell was twenty-nine, a printer and poet in the spirit of his hero, whose last four years he chronicled,unprettified as Whitman requested, in the nine volumes of Walt...
Judi
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March 27
1964 Wilfred Sheed, in Commonweal, on Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: "Thus it comes about that the louder Simone de Beauvoir and Mrs. Friedan shout the funnier they seem...It is quite possible that serious injustice has been done to women: yet there remains a strange aura of frivolity about the whole question."
— Apr 14, 2026 05:02PM
1964 Wilfred Sheed, in Commonweal, on Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: "Thus it comes about that the louder Simone de Beauvoir and Mrs. Friedan shout the funnier they seem...It is quite possible that serious injustice has been done to women: yet there remains a strange aura of frivolity about the whole question."
Judi
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March 26
1969 ...known as El Gringo? Or Hal Croves, who showed up on the set when John Huston was filming Traven's best-known book, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and introduced himself as Traven's "agent"? Our perhaps all of the above. The theories are many, but most now believe that when Hal Croves died in Mexico City on this day, B. Traven died with him, and perhaps all his other identities as well.
— Apr 13, 2026 04:50PM
1969 ...known as El Gringo? Or Hal Croves, who showed up on the set when John Huston was filming Traven's best-known book, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and introduced himself as Traven's "agent"? Our perhaps all of the above. The theories are many, but most now believe that when Hal Croves died in Mexico City on this day, B. Traven died with him, and perhaps all his other identities as well.
