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2010

April

• Uprisings and Downfalls: Troy, Sherlock Holmes, the Irish Rebellion and Brendan Behan

February

• Arkansas Prays For Mencken (1931)

January

• Lolita Breaks Out (1956)

• The Execution of Isaac Babel (1940)

• When The Shift Hit The Fan In Dublin (1907)

• Maugham Reflects On Aging (1954)

2009

September

• Doug Kenney’s Last Joke (1980)

August

• Robert Frost Takes a Beer Bath (1935)

July

• “Desiderata” Rises From The Grave (1965)

June

• Malcolm Lowry’s Mysterious Death (1957)

• Joyce Gets A Literary Handjob (1904)

• Carson McCullers debuts

May

• Somerset Maugham: No good deed (1917)

• A Clockwork Burgess (1962)

• Words gone wild (1993)

April

• Hamsun cheers for the other side (1940)

• Workfare for writers (1935)

March

• Asimov takes off (1941)

• Virginia Woolf at the door (1913)

• ‘You’re nothing but a load of egotists’ (1945)

• The president and the insurance salesman (1985)

February

• When Sylvia bit Ted (1956)

• Wodehouse in Hollywood (1931)

• Why you shouldn’t befriend novelists #1: James Jones & Barbara Baekeland (1968)

• The fish that ate Philip K. Dick (1974)

• Hemingway’s fight club (1936)

• ‘Bird of Paradise’ gets plucked (1912)

• Olivia Goldsmith’s Valentine (1996)

• Solzhenitsyn says goodbye to the U.S.S.R. (1974)

• Sylvia Plath Bids for Immortality (1963)

• Edgar Lee Masters Assassinates Lincoln (1931)

January

• When Ezra Met Benito (1933)

• Writers’ Colonies of the Dead

• Have A Heart, Thomas Hardy (1928)

• Martin Amis Gets Bitten (1995)

• Elvis Lives (1935)

• Berryman Misses the Mississippi (1972)

2008

December

• Hemingway Fishes For Nazi Subs (1942)

• Salmon Rushdie Resurfaces (1991)

• Marianne Moore Names A Car (1955)

• Patricia Highsmith Inspired (1948)

• James Joyce: “My love, my life, my star, my little strange-eyed Ireland” (1909)

• Great Moments in Magazine History (1860, 1887, 1953)

November

• The Short, Unhappy Death of Leo Tolstoy (1910)

• Capote’s Fatal Vision (1959)

• Margaret Wise Brown Kicks Off (1952)

• Theodore Roethke’s Walk in the Woods (1935)

• ‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ (1918)

• Babbitt Does Stockholm (1930)

October

• Faulkner Goes Postal (1924)

• Best Head of the ‘70s (1975)

• Raymond Chandler and the Rise of the Zombie Novels (1958)

• The Battle Over ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (1958)

• The Bombeck Mystique (1964)

• Pooh Poohed & Other Small Slams (20th Century)

• The Censorious Librarian (1945)

• Great Moments in Literary Sex (Part II)

• Great Moments in Literary Sex (Part I)

• Howl’s Moving Telegram (1955)

• Great Moments In Indexing (2004) A Reader’s Almanac Bonus!

• Plagiarism Scandal Kills Indian Writer (1994)

September

• Alice B. Toklas Breaks Out A War Criminal (1951)

• C.S. Lewis: Can You Hear Me God? (1931)

• Where Have You Gone, T.S. Eliot? (1932)

• Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein Meet Cute (1907)

• Sept. 4: James Patterson’s Love Story (1996)

August

• Gore Vidal takes down William F. Buckley (1968)

• Robert Frost, firebug (1938)

• The Love Song of Edith Wharton (1908)

• Francis Farmer goes to school

• ‘Federico Lorca is dead and gone’ (1936)

• Blast rocks Jonathan Safran Foer’s world (1985)

• Hemingway vs. Eastman (1937)

• The Fortsas Hoax and the Woolfs Marry

• Chance saves Jerzy Kosinski (1969)

• ‘Ulysses’ Reaches A Safe Harbor (1934)

• ‘Middlemarch’ and ‘Karamazov’

• Down and Dirty in Science Fiction (1947, 1968)

July

• Sergeant Kilmer’s Last Mission (1918)

• Hamlet Gets Pirated and Faulkner Goes to Hollywood

• The Poet Who Never Was (1943)

• Malraux Flies For Spain (1936)

• Norman Mailer’s Song (1981)

• Joe Klein Fesses Up (1996)

• Last Act for Chekhov (1904)

• Dylan Thomas Meets His Match

• Red Scare Squashes Sam Spade’s Creator

• Hemingway’s First Blood

2007

March

• Once Again, Words Failed Him

January

• Writer’s Colonies of the Dead

• The Mortification of Martin Amis

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