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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Favorite Episodes of LeVar Burton Reads

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February 16, 1957: Actor and reading enthusiast LeVar Burton is born in Landstuhl, West Germany. His father Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Sr...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Unfortunate (Mostly) Literary Happenings of Past Februaries

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Previous Installment in the "Bummer" Series: Bummer New Year February 1, 1891: Newspaper publisher Ignacio Martínez is assassinate...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Podcast: Erykah Badu, Ron Harper, Clover Hope

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  Host Rob Harvilla begins the episode by talking about how one of Erykah Badu's songs that samples a Kool & The Gang song reminds ...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Bummer New Year: Unfortunate Literary Happenings of Past Januaries

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Previous Installment in this Series: Bummer Halloween January 3, 2014: Islamist extremists burn the Christian books of Al-Saʼe  Library in T...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Neil Gaiman Reads 'A Christmas Carol'

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Illustration for "The Children's Dickens: Stories selected from various tales" (1909) London: Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stou...
Friday, December 16, 2022

109 Years Ago Today: Ambrose Bierce Disappears

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December 16, 1913: Ambrose Bierce writes to his literary secretary, “I am going to Mexico with a pretty definite purpose which is not at pre...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

My Goodreads Reading Challenge 2022

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  Art Matters is one of the signed copies of books Tit and I picked up when we saw Neil Gaiman in person . The book with "No image ava...