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February 12
1976 ... for which Vargas Llosa had written the screenplay. "Brother!" cried García Márquez and raised his arms for an embrace, but Vargas Llosa punched his old friend in the face and knocked him to the ground, shouting, "That's for what you said"—or "did", according to other witnesses—"to Patricia," Mario's wife. They were the last words either writer—both Nobel laureates now—has spoken to the other.
— Mar 23, 2026 01:29PM
1976 ... for which Vargas Llosa had written the screenplay. "Brother!" cried García Márquez and raised his arms for an embrace, but Vargas Llosa punched his old friend in the face and knocked him to the ground, shouting, "That's for what you said"—or "did", according to other witnesses—"to Patricia," Mario's wife. They were the last words either writer—both Nobel laureates now—has spoken to the other.
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April 29
1939 ..."He has turtle livers flown in from Florida, the finer to Danish hams and caviars, anchovies, lobsters and game pastes in every known combination"—but the next year Beard, to Rhodes's fury, adapted the company's name into his first cookbook, Horts d'Oeuve and Canapés> Their partnership soon dissolved, but Beard's book remained in print for decades as he became the dean of American food writers.
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1939 ..."He has turtle livers flown in from Florida, the finer to Danish hams and caviars, anchovies, lobsters and game pastes in every known combination"—but the next year Beard, to Rhodes's fury, adapted the company's name into his first cookbook, Horts d'Oeuve and Canapés> Their partnership soon dissolved, but Beard's book remained in print for decades as he became the dean of American food writers.
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1952
eyebrows, and mouthes—at one point going so far as to borrow the face of the Mona Lisa—but White and his editor, Ursula Nordstrom, pushed him to make her more 'spider-y" and on this day Nordstrom sent White, who felt that "the book must at all odds have a beguiling Charlotte,"the latest batch of William's sketches, agreeing that their heroine should look "less like a person": "After all, Charlotte is a spider."
— Apr 28, 2026 07:35AM
eyebrows, and mouthes—at one point going so far as to borrow the face of the Mona Lisa—but White and his editor, Ursula Nordstrom, pushed him to make her more 'spider-y" and on this day Nordstrom sent White, who felt that "the book must at all odds have a beguiling Charlotte,"the latest batch of William's sketches, agreeing that their heroine should look "less like a person": "After all, Charlotte is a spider."
Judi
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April 27
1959 "Poor thing," Robert Lowell wrote Elizabeth Bishop about a visit from ltlheodorx Roethke, "mammoth yet elf like, hairless, red-faced, beginning the day with a shot of bourbon, speechless except for shrewd grunted asides—behind him nervous breakdowns, before him—what?"
— Apr 28, 2026 07:08AM
1959 "Poor thing," Robert Lowell wrote Elizabeth Bishop about a visit from ltlheodorx Roethke, "mammoth yet elf like, hairless, red-faced, beginning the day with a shot of bourbon, speechless except for shrewd grunted asides—behind him nervous breakdowns, before him—what?"
Judi
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April 26
1884 Leo Tolstoy, one of Russia's best-known men, set out to visit a bookshop in Moscow but turned back when on one on the streetcar would change a ten-rubble note. "They all thought I was a swindler."
— Apr 27, 2026 05:38PM
1884 Leo Tolstoy, one of Russia's best-known men, set out to visit a bookshop in Moscow but turned back when on one on the streetcar would change a ten-rubble note. "They all thought I was a swindler."
Judi
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April 25
1929 With his second novel on its way, Henry Gren was able to make his engagement with Mary Biddulph official when their fathers, after months of negotiation settled on an £1,800 annual income for the young couple.
— Apr 27, 2026 06:31AM
1929 With his second novel on its way, Henry Gren was able to make his engagement with Mary Biddulph official when their fathers, after months of negotiation settled on an £1,800 annual income for the young couple.
Judi
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April 24
1916 The factions of Irish nationalism were many, and when word reached him in England of the Rising in Dublin against the British that began on this Easter Monday, W. B. Yeats didn't think much of some of the conspirators—a dreamer, a drunk, and a madwoman among them, he thought. But by May, when British firing squads began executing the rebels, he had already composed the famous refrain—"a terrible ...
— Apr 26, 2026 02:18PM
1916 The factions of Irish nationalism were many, and when word reached him in England of the Rising in Dublin against the British that began on this Easter Monday, W. B. Yeats didn't think much of some of the conspirators—a dreamer, a drunk, and a madwoman among them, he thought. But by May, when British firing squads began executing the rebels, he had already composed the famous refrain—"a terrible ...
Judi
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1857 Nearing forty, Henry David Thoreau might have felt he had encountered his own youthful self in the person of a twenty-year-old woman when he met Cage Brady. An admirer of Walden and a lover of nature, she told Thoreau that like him she wanted to "live free." "Her own sex, ,so tamely bred, only jeer at her for entertaining such an idea," Thoreau wrote a week later, "but she has a strong head and a love for ...
— Apr 26, 2026 11:58AM
Judi
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April 22
1949 After his ex-con friend Little Jack Melody cashed his car in a police chase—with Ginsberg and a load of stolen jewelry and furs in the back seat—twenty-one-year-old Allen Ginsberg was arrested for grand larceny and attempting to run over a policeman.
— Apr 26, 2026 09:31AM
1949 After his ex-con friend Little Jack Melody cashed his car in a police chase—with Ginsberg and a load of stolen jewelry and furs in the back seat—twenty-one-year-old Allen Ginsberg was arrested for grand larceny and attempting to run over a policeman.
