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“Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his…
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March 24, 1919
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It was on this day in 1882, German doctor and microbiologist Robert Koch announced that he had found the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis…
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Today marks the first day in 1942 when the U.S. government began moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to internment camps. Between…
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Today would have been the 93rd birthday of Stephen Sondheim. The American composer and lyricist was born in 1930 to unhappy people. At 10 years old he…
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The Alabama Freedom March began on this date in 1965. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and 3,200 demonstrators set off on a 54-mile march from Selma…
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“1960” from The Rain in Portugal. Random House “Banana School” from Whale Day and Other Poems. Random House "House" from The Trouble with Poetry: And…
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Today is the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Emily Dickinson said: “A little Madness in the Spring / Is wholesome…
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Today is the birthday of novelist Philip Roth, born in 1933. In 1959, when he was 26 years old he published his first book, a novella and short stories…
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Novelist John Updike was born on this day in 1932. His literary career had him write more than 50 books, including novels, poetry, short stories and…
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Today is the birthday of novelist and children's author Penelope Lively, her novel Moon Tiger (1987) won the Booker Prize. In Moon Tiger, she wrote: "We…
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"The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever — they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must…
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