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September 2
1932 ... him, "Live forever!" Certain he had been chosen for a reason, Bradbury took the words as a command to create: "Just weeds after Mr. Electrico said this to me, I started writing every day. I never stopped.: Even his biographer's later discovery that his uncle actually died almost two months later never altered Bradbury's memory of that fateful moment when he chose life in the face of death.
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1932 ... him, "Live forever!" Certain he had been chosen for a reason, Bradbury took the words as a command to create: "Just weeds after Mr. Electrico said this to me, I started writing every day. I never stopped.: Even his biographer's later discovery that his uncle actually died almost two months later never altered Bradbury's memory of that fateful moment when he chose life in the face of death.
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September 1
1838 ...Eugénie (who would grow up to marry Napoleon III and become the last empress of France), and telling them stories of his adventures with Napoleon's army. On this evening he began a tale of a young soldier wandering bewildered through the Battle of Waterloo, which soon became Charterhouse's opening scene, at the end of which, in his own copy of the novel, he noted, "For you, Paca and Eugénie."
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1838 ...Eugénie (who would grow up to marry Napoleon III and become the last empress of France), and telling them stories of his adventures with Napoleon's army. On this evening he began a tale of a young soldier wandering bewildered through the Battle of Waterloo, which soon became Charterhouse's opening scene, at the end of which, in his own copy of the novel, he noted, "For you, Paca and Eugénie."
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August 31
1931 Isak Dinesen arrived home from Africa, never to return.
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1931 Isak Dinesen arrived home from Africa, never to return.
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August 30
1960 The juvenile authorities in Montana worked more slowly back then. Four days after his parents crossed over into North Dakota and robbed the Agricultural National Bank in Creekmore of $2,500, and two days after they were taken away in handcuffs for the crime, fifteen-year-old Del Parsons,, alone at home after his twin sister decided to run away, is picked up by a family friend and driven north to ...
— Sep 30, 2026 06:43AM
1960 The juvenile authorities in Montana worked more slowly back then. Four days after his parents crossed over into North Dakota and robbed the Agricultural National Bank in Creekmore of $2,500, and two days after they were taken away in handcuffs for the crime, fifteen-year-old Del Parsons,, alone at home after his twin sister decided to run away, is picked up by a family friend and driven north to ...
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August 29
1974 "It was August 29, 1974. The air smelled like somebody's arm up close." Nixon had just quit, and Dylan Ebdus, heading into fifth grad, and Mingus Rude, heading into sixth and new to the Brooklyn neighborhood—call it Boerum Hill or Gowanus, depending on whether you were trying to gentrify or not—had just met. Dylan, white, was local but uncomfortable there; Mingus, new, made himself at home, the son...
— Sep 26, 2026 03:41PM
1974 "It was August 29, 1974. The air smelled like somebody's arm up close." Nixon had just quit, and Dylan Ebdus, heading into fifth grad, and Mingus Rude, heading into sixth and new to the Brooklyn neighborhood—call it Boerum Hill or Gowanus, depending on whether you were trying to gentrify or not—had just met. Dylan, white, was local but uncomfortable there; Mingus, new, made himself at home, the son...
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August 28
NO YEAR It's a simple proposition at the end of a night of poker: cut the cards, and if Nashe and Pozzi get the high card, they get the $5,000 back they owe, but if Flower and Stone win then Nashe and Pozzi are down $10,000 they don't have. The result—seven of hearts for Flower, four of diamonds for Nashe—leads to another proposition:the losers can pay off their debt by building a massive wall from the...
— Sep 22, 2026 05:47AM
NO YEAR It's a simple proposition at the end of a night of poker: cut the cards, and if Nashe and Pozzi get the high card, they get the $5,000 back they owe, but if Flower and Stone win then Nashe and Pozzi are down $10,000 they don't have. The result—seven of hearts for Flower, four of diamonds for Nashe—leads to another proposition:the losers can pay off their debt by building a massive wall from the...
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August 27
1959 Frank O'Hara was half-joking when, at lunch on this day with LeRoi Jones, he proposed a new literary movement, "Personism," and followed through a week later with "Personism: A Manifesto" for Jone's magazine, Yugen. In a tone as off-handedly and evocatively conversational as his poems, he promised nothing—"What can we expect of Personism? ... Everything , but we won't get it"—but still managed to ...
— Sep 21, 2026 06:11PM
1959 Frank O'Hara was half-joking when, at lunch on this day with LeRoi Jones, he proposed a new literary movement, "Personism," and followed through a week later with "Personism: A Manifesto" for Jone's magazine, Yugen. In a tone as off-handedly and evocatively conversational as his poems, he promised nothing—"What can we expect of Personism? ... Everything , but we won't get it"—but still managed to ...
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August 26
1945
...in American fiction: Sonny the hothead, Freddo the dutiful coward, and Michael the sceptic independent, who sits at a far table with his future wife, Kay, and decides how much of his family's business to reveal to her while, back in his office, the Don blandly promises Johnny Fontaine that he'll take care of the studio boss who's been giving him trouble; "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.'
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1945
...in American fiction: Sonny the hothead, Freddo the dutiful coward, and Michael the sceptic independent, who sits at a far table with his future wife, Kay, and decides how much of his family's business to reveal to her while, back in his office, the Don blandly promises Johnny Fontaine that he'll take care of the studio boss who's been giving him trouble; "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.'
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August 25
1909 Fat and thin, Catholic and skeptic, individualist and socialist, carnivore and vegetarian, tippler and teetotaler, moustachioed and bearded: G. K. Chesterton and G. B. Shaw were seen as almost comical opposites when they regularly and affectionately locked antlers at the turn of the twentieth century, a combat that culminated in Chesterton's biography of Shaw in 1909, which Shaw himself reviewed...
— Sep 19, 2026 10:08PM
1909 Fat and thin, Catholic and skeptic, individualist and socialist, carnivore and vegetarian, tippler and teetotaler, moustachioed and bearded: G. K. Chesterton and G. B. Shaw were seen as almost comical opposites when they regularly and affectionately locked antlers at the turn of the twentieth century, a combat that culminated in Chesterton's biography of Shaw in 1909, which Shaw himself reviewed...
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1925 "The thing I think about most", Every Waugh wrote to Laura Herbert from Ethiopia, "is your eyelashes making a noise like a bat on the pillow."
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August 23
1956 Attacked by the Nazis in Germany and hounded out of Norway in the '30s, Wilhelm Reich, the radical psychoanalyst who claimed to have discovered a life force known as 'orgone energy," had a quieter time of it during his first eight years in the United States, where his work attracted the attention of, among others, Norman Mailer and William Steig. But after a series of articles in the New Republic ...
— Sep 18, 2026 06:37AM
1956 Attacked by the Nazis in Germany and hounded out of Norway in the '30s, Wilhelm Reich, the radical psychoanalyst who claimed to have discovered a life force known as 'orgone energy," had a quieter time of it during his first eight years in the United States, where his work attracted the attention of, among others, Norman Mailer and William Steig. But after a series of articles in the New Republic ...