Bill Peschel: Reader’s Almanac: 3/21

What is this?
It's Bill Peschel's professional and personal home on the web. Welcome. Poke around in the drawers and cupboards. There's a lot of interesting stuff here.
What's the Reader's Almanac?
It's my 2008-2009 nonfiction book project. A year's worth of entertaining and thought-provoking stories and anecdotes about writers and their books, tied to the day they occurred. Published regularly. Here's a list of the essays published so far.
Why is it on the web?
I don't have an agent or a contract, so this is my way of building an audience, and seeing if there's any interest in the book. The daily deadlines don't hurt, either.
Are you going to write anything else here?
Sure. The occasional book review, a collection of links to neat articles and websites, and my opinions. You know, the usual stuff you find on the web.

Recent Reader's Almanac Posts

Man Falls Twice: Milton and Darwin (1667, 1858)
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Big Explosion (1985)
Saturday Literature Links
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)

The Unscratchables. Cornelius Kane.

Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days. Al Columbia.
Mostly Harmless. Douglas Adams.
Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop. Lee Goldberg.

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March 21, 2008

Reader’s Almanac: 3/21

Born today: Jean Paul (ps. Johann Richter), novelist, humorist, Wundsiedel, Princ. Of Beyreuth, 1763; Phyllis McGinley, poet, children's author, Ontario, Oregon, 1905.

Died: Thomas Cranmer, theologian, essayist, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1556; Robert Southey, poet, Keswick, England, 1843; Kenneth Clark, art critic, author, Hythe, Kent, 1983; Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry, children's author, 1997; Cathy Seipp, columnist, blogger, Los Angeles, 2007.

Quote for the Day: Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves. — Albert Camus

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March 21, 2008

Reader’s Almanac: 3/21

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