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Gimbling in the Wabe – Seeing the Story

Published on : 5 March, 20185 March, 2018 Published by : Sharon Browning

In the first telling of the tale, I don’t pick up the book at all. It is a very short story. The next time around, the book is lying around, in a place where I need to while away some time. I pick it up, idly flipping through the pages. The photos are black and [….]

Jack Kerouac Plays Pool [1967]

Published on : 2 August, 2011 Published by : LitStack Editors

This was shot in early 1967 at the Pawtucketville Social Club in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hat-tip: Retronaut

On this day, April 19, in 1900, author, journalist, poet and playwright Richard Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in the US, an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946. Interesting facts: he wrote the world’s first radio play, Danger, broadcast by the BBC in 1924, and he was good friends with poet Dylan Thomas (who wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog while leasing a boathouse from Hughes). He died in 1976, at age 76.

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