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Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

This was a very enjoyable yarn, convincing and lovely. A good story, with a bunch of pop-culture references, just enough…

2 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates was an author, poet, and professor from Massachusetts. Ms. Bates is best known for writing the lyrics…

2 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken (5 August, 1889 – 17 August, 1973) was an American writer and poet. Mr. Aiken was a Pulitzer…

2 years ago

Book Review: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are sparks of genius sprinkled around the novel. I really enjoyed his characterizations, description of all the main characters,…

2 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Robert Frost

Robert Frost (26 March, 1874 – 29 January, 1963) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet known for many poems…

3 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September, 1768 – 4 July, 1848) was a French author and diplomat, known as one…

4 years ago

Book Review: Waking Up On the Appalachian Trail by N. B. Hankes

The narrative follows the author and his brother, an Army veteran and a college graduate, who decided to hike the…

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Howard Lindsay

Howard Lindsay (29 March, 1889 – 11 February, 1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize award winner playwright, director and actor.

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: R.P. Blackmur

R.P. Blackmur (21 January, 1904 – 2 February, 1965) was one of America’s foremost critics of literature, and a distinguished…

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: William Braithwaite

William Braithwaite (6 December 1878 – 8 June, 1962) was a poet, writer and critic from Boston, MA.

4 years ago

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