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Litstack Rec: The Boys of My Youth & Aurora

Published on : 25 January, 201918 March, 2021 Published by : Lauren Alwan

The Boys of My Youth, by Jo Ann Beard When it was released in 1998, I somehow missed Jo Ann Beard’s debut collection of essays, but as luck would have it, I recently fell down an Internet rabbit hole and ended up here, at the first publication of her now […]

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On this day, April 13, in 1909, was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Author of over forty short stories, five novels, three works of nonfiction, and one children’s book, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and numerous O. Henry Awards, and was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a National Medal of Arts, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, as well as being named a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur by the French government. Her works captured the quintessential Southern voice with an emphasis on family and customs, with a strong sense of place. She died from natural causes in 2001; she was 92.

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On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.