Friday, May 30, 2014
Going West
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Twain, Harte, Stoddard, Coolbirth - Ben Tarnoff's The Bohemians (Penguin, 2014) Excuse the absence - I've been on a long voyage...
Thursday, December 5, 2013
"A right fat, jolly, roistering little fellow" - Irving, Paulding, Saint Nicholas
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It's Saint Nicholas' Eve, which means that in Holland - and in plenty of other places, too - Sinterklaas celebrations are in ful...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Mr. Pooter Remembers the Fifth of November
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To mark the day, Mr. Pooter's account of a firework party : From, of course, George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobo...
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Countdown To Halloween: "A Hallowe'en Party" (1896)
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"Pumpkin Carving", Benjamin Franklin Reinhart, 1872 ( via ) It's Halloween! Which means we've come to the end of the ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Countdown to Halloween: War Wounds
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Today, a Halloween story from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine in 1870, in which the emerging holiday touches upon the trauma o...
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