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Today is the 122nd birthday of the author, Aldous Huxley. I first started reading his books at Interlochen Center for the Arts the summer of 1989. The library was in a stone building, cool in...
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Today is the 155th birthday of the writer who said, “Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.” She wrote about frustrated love in novels like The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan...
View ArticleHappy 123rd Birthday Aldous Huxley
Today is the 123rd birthday of the author, Aldous Huxley. I first started reading his books at Interlochen Center for the Arts the summer of 1989. The library was in a stone building, cool in...
View ArticleHappy 134th Birthday Coco Chanel
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View ArticleHappy 132nd Birthday Ezra Pound
Today is the birthday of Ezra Pound, born 132 years ago in Hailey, Idaho . He was known as “the poet’s poet” because he was so generous about promoting the work of other writers — including James...
View ArticleHappy 156th Birthday Edith Wharton
Today is the 156th birthday of the writer who said, “Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.” She wrote about frustrated love in novels like The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan...
View ArticleHappy 124th Birthday Aldous Huxley
Today is the 124th birthday of the author, Aldous Huxley. I first started reading his books at Interlochen Center for the Arts the summer of 1989. The library was in a stone building, cool in...
View ArticleHappy 133rd Birthday Ezra Pound
Today is the birthday of Ezra Pound, born 133 years ago in Hailey, Idaho . He was known as “the poet’s poet” because he was so generous about promoting the work of other writers — including James...
View ArticleI is for Ibsen, Idol and it happened one night #atozchallenge
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View ArticleU is for Updike and U2 #atozchallenge
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