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To ease you into the weekend, a letter excerpt I’ve read many times. The year was 1944...

Mar 5

Happy World Book Day

Mar 4

Writer’s block. Page fright. Creator’s cramp. Pen freeze. There are many fitting names given to the crushing inertia sometimes suffered by those with a…

Mar 3

In August 1988, Fred Rogers received a letter from a lady named Tina LeBlanc Sadoski, regarding her daughter who was in hospital...

Mar 1

Happy Birthday Johnny Cash.

Feb 26

When published in 1963, Jessica Mitford’s wittily scathing exposé of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, instantly aggravated funeral dire…

Feb 24

John Keats' Eats

Feb 23

In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition...

Feb 22

(She definitely could.)

Feb 18

In 1918, British novelist Hugh Walpole decided to contact a critic who, in an article in The Daily News on the subject of someone else entirely, had ma…

Feb 17

For Valentine’s Day, a letter from the hand of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas that was written to his future wife Caitlin Macnamara in 1936, a few months afte…

Feb 14

Darwin, I love you

Feb 12

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