Thursday, May 24, 2012
On the New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Sad news out of New Orleans: last night, the New York Times reported that the Times-Picayune looks set to face severe cuts, including t...
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Kipling and America
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Kipling, at home in Vermont I've been reading some Kipling recently, for circuitous reasons (mainly Peter Bellamy ), and it's hi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Reading the Fall of New Orleans
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William Waud, "Landing of Captain Bailey and Lieutenant Perkins on the Levee, New Orleans [. . .] to Demand the Surrender of the City...
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Grant and the Gamblers
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Reading William S. McFeely's biography of Ulysses S. Grant I was amused by the future president's encounter with a group of river...
Monday, April 2, 2012
Ralph Keeler, Literary Vagabond
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( via ) Above: the lost literary vagabond, Ralph Keeler (1840-c.1873). Who? Exactly.
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