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Litstack Rec: The Boys of My Youth & Aurora

Published on : 25 January, 201925 January, 2019 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, September 25, in 1930, Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago, Illinois. While best known for his beloved children’s books such as 1964’s The Giving Tree, 1974’s Where the Sidewalk Ends, and 1981’s A Light in the Attic (all of which he also illustrated) he was also a poet, cartoonist, screenwriter, playwright and singer-songwriter (he penned Johnny Cash’s hit, “A Boy Named Sue”, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show’s “Cover of the Rolling Stone”, and Waylon Jennings’ “The Taker”, among others). He died of a heart attack in 1999 at age 68.

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On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
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