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2010

August

• Man Falls Twice: Milton and Darwin (1667, 1858)

• Jonathan Safran Foer’s Big Explosion (1985)

May

• Saturday Literature Links

April

• Thoreau makes an ash of himself (1844)

• Dickens leaves the United States, gratefully (1842)

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

• A Merry Shakespeare (1597)

• Petrarch: Just one look (1327)

• Writers at Play: Brendan Behan and Jackie Gleason

• Writers at Rest: Henry James

• Dickens Gets Hitched (1836)

February

• The End of the Affair (1893)

• Arkansas Prays For Mencken (1931)

• Donne Undone (1602)

• Stephen Crane’s Bitter Heart (1895)

January

• Lolita Breaks Out (1956)

• The Brontës Query A Publisher (1846)

• The Execution of Isaac Babel (1940)

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

• Maugham Reflects On Aging (1954)

2009

December

• OJ Squeezes Judith Regan (2006)

November

• Recently, I sent off the manuscript

October

• Still beavering away

September

• Almost at the end of the day

• Stella Gibbons Kills A Genre (1932)

• Mona Lisa discovered stolen (1911)

• London Burning IV: The End (1666)

• London Burning III: Burn Down The Mission (1666)

• London Burning II: Take Me To The River (1666)

• London Burning I (1666)

• Doug Kenney’s Last Joke (1980)

August

• Meet the new month, same as the old month

• Emerson delivers useful advice (1837)

• Jack London, seal-skinner (1893)

• The moon’s a loon (1835)

• Robert Frost Takes a Beer Bath (1935)

July

• “Desiderata” Rises From The Grave (1965)

June

• Malcolm Lowry’s Mysterious Death (1957)

• Baudelaire’s Harvests His Evil Flowers (1857)

• Making book

• Flame Wars in the Age of Reason (1766)

• Mary Shelley Dreams of Frankenstein (1816)

• Joyce Gets A Literary Handjob (1904)

• ‘Jane Eyre’ divides critics (1848)

• John Henry Newman looks inward (1812)

• Carson McCullers debuts

May

• Somerset Maugham: No good deed (1917)

• A meeting of two minds (1845)

• A Clockwork Burgess (1962)

• Words gone wild (1993)

April

• Hamsun cheers for the other side (1940)

• Workfare for writers (1935)

March

• Charles Dickens gets serious (1850)

• Jonathan Swift pulls a fast one (1708)

• The unnatural acts of Horatio Alger (1866)

• Asimov takes off (1941)

• The Scarlet Letter scandal (1850)

• Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: I ‘see your face as the face of an angel’ (1846)

• ‘Scouting for Boys’ (2004)

• Virginia Woolf at the door (1913)

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

• The president and the insurance salesman (1985)

February

• Shelley shoots at the devil (1813)

• When Sylvia bit Ted (1956)

• Wodehouse in Hollywood (1931)

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

• Gutenberg builds a book (1455)

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

• Hemingway’s fight club (1936)

• That ‘cheap and pernicious’ Huck Finn (1885)

• ‘Bird of Paradise’ gets plucked (1912)

• Olivia Goldsmith’s Valentine (1996)

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

• ‘Crusoe’ leaves his island paradise (1709)

• Sylvia Plath Bids for Immortality (1963)

• Edgar Lee Masters Assassinates Lincoln (1931)

• Proust Fires First (1897)

January

• Edward Kynaston’s Worst Role (1669)

• When Ezra Met Benito (1933)

• Writers’ Colonies of the Dead

• Don Quixote Unleashed (1605)

• Henry Fielding Invades Grub Street (1752)

• Walter Scott Hits The Skids (1826)

• Have A Heart, Thomas Hardy (1928)

• Martin Amis Gets Bitten (1995)

• Dictionary Johnson and Mrs. Thrale’s Flail (1765)

• Elvis Lives (1935)

• Berryman Misses the Mississippi (1972)

• Dumas Fights A Duel (1825)

2008

December

• Twain Crashes and Burns (1877)

• Shelley Does The Right Thing (1816)

• The Grinch Who Stole Santa Claus (1822)

• Hemingway Fishes For Nazi Subs (1942)

• John Dryden Suffers For His Art (1679)

• Saving Lieutenant Whitman (1862)

• Mark Twain Accused of Plagiarism (1889)

• 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)

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