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Feb. 05, 2010: The Writer's Almanac
Friday’s Poem: "Father to the Man" by Tom C. Hunley, from Octopus. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of a Catholic priest, sociologist, best-selling romance novelist, mystery writer and weekly newspaper columnist, and a writer so prolific that it’s been said he "has never had an unpublished thought": Andrew Greeley in Oak Park, Illinois (1928)…
Feb. 04, 2010: The Writer's Almanac
Thursday’s Poem: "Ex-Boyfriends" by Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Betty Friedan, born in Peoria, Illinois (1921). She’s the author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), a book that The New York Times described as being "widely regarded as one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century." Friedan wrote about what she called "the problem that has no name," found particularly among educated suburban women in the…
Feb. 03, 2010: The Writer's Almanac
Wednesday’s Poem: "Grecian Temples" by George Bilgere, from The White Museum. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of writer Gertrude Stein, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (1874). When she was 30 years old, she moved to Paris and lived there for almost the rest of her life. She once said, "America is my country and Paris is my hometown." She covered the walls of her house in Paris with paintings by Cézanne, Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin, and others. Her house became known as "The Salon,"…
Feb. 02, 2010: The Writer's Almanac
Tuesday’s Poem: "Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy" by John Stone, from Music from Apartment 8. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of James Joyce, born in Dublin (1882), who said, "The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works." Joyce wrote Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan’s Wake (1939); an autobiographical novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (1916); and a short-story collection, Dubliners (1914), among other works…
Feb. 01, 2010: The Writer's Almanac
Monday’s Poem: "The Ineffable" by George Bilgere, from The White Museum. Monday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the man who wrote, "The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley" and "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind?" and "O my luve’s like a red, red rose, / That’s newly sprung in June; O my luve’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly played in tune." That’s the "Bard of Ayrshire," the ploughman poet, Robert Burns, born 251 years ago today in…
Jan. 31, 2010: The Writer's Almanac
Sunday’s Poem: "Lullaby" by Dawn Potter, from Boy Land & Other Poems. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Norman Mailer, born in Long Branch, New Jersey (1923). His novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) became the definitive literary novel about World War II, and it made Norman Mailer famous at the age of 25. Twenty years later, he wrote the book The Armies of the Night (1968), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction…
