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LitStack Recs: Who Do You Love & Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

Published on : 19 May, 201625 May, 2016 Published by : Lauren Alwan

Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson May is #ShortStoryMonth, and this is third in a series of LitStackRecs on great short story collections. In my favorite short stories, something singular happens to a character, usually out of nowhere, a setting that is exceptionally vivid—almost a character in itself—and […]

Gimbling in the Wabe – Tangible Authors

Published on : 1 April, 201631 March, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

I am an extremely lucky person. At times when I am feeling particularly magnanimous, I would even say that I am blessed. I live in an existence where I am surrounded by books. I own books, I can download books electronically, I have a library nearby where I can not […]

On this day, October 27, in 1914, poet and writer Dylan Thomas was born in Uplands, Swansea,
Glamorgan, Wales; eighteen years later, in 1932, poet and writer Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Both received acclaim in their lifetimes; him for his accessible yet lofty poetry (“Do not go gentle into that good night”), recorded stories (A Child’s Christmas in Wales) and the play Under Milk Wood, her for her confessional poetry (The Colossus and other poems and Ariel) and her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. Tragically, both died by their own hand – Plath by suicide in 1963 at age 30, Thomas through hard living and hard-drinking, in 1953 at age 39.

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.

LitStack Recs: Who Do You Love & Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

Gimbling in the Wabe – Tangible Authors

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