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A Writer's Wit: Arthur Rimbaud

10/20/2020

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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
​Arthur Rimbaud
Author of A Season in Hell
Born October 20, 1854
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Fiona Hill's Mr. Putin
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A Writer's Wit: C. P. Snow

10/15/2020

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Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
​C. P.  Snow
Author of Corridors of Power
Born October 15, 1905
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Michael Waldman's The Fight to Vote
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A Writer's Wit: Katherine Mansfield

10/14/2020

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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
​Katherine Mansfield
Author of The Garden Party
Born October 14, 1888
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Michael Waldman's The Fight to Vote
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A Writer's Wit: Ernest K. Gann

10/13/2020

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Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.
​Ernest K. Gann
Author of Fate is the Hunter
Born October 13, 1910
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Michael Waldman's The Fight to Vote
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A Writer's Wit: John W. Gardner

10/8/2020

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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
​John W. Gardner
Author of On Leadership
Born October 8, 1912
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Blake Bailey's A Tragic Honesty
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A Writer's Wit: elizabeth Janeway

10/7/2020

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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
​Elizabeth Janeway
Author of Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study in Social Mythology
Born October 7, 1913
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Blake Bailey's  A Tragic Honesty 
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A Writer's Wit: Shana Alexander

10/6/2020

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What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
​Shana Alexander
Author of Very Much a Lady
Born October 6, 1925
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Blake Bailey's A Tragic Honesty
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A Writer's Wit: Donald A. Wollheim

10/1/2020

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I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means—like the anti-gravitational drive.
​Donald A. Wollheim
Author of Secret of the Ninth Planet
Born October 1, 1914
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
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A Writer's Wit: Truman Capote

9/30/2020

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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination: If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can’t forget it . . . it will haunt you until it’s written.
​Truman Capote
Author of In Cold Blood
Born September 30 1924
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Marilynne Robinson's Novel Gilead
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A Writer's Wit: Marissa Moss

9/29/2020

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With the big publishers, they publish fifty books and promote five.
​Marissa Moss
Author of Amelia's Notebook
Born September 29, 1959
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Marilynne Robinson's Novel Gilead
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A Writer's Wit: Eavan Boland

9/24/2020

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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
​Eavan Boland
Author of A Woman without a Country: Poems
Born September 24, 1944
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TOMORROW: My Book World | E. M. Forster's The Life to Come and Other Stories
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A Writer's Wit: Joshua Foer

9/23/2020

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We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.
​Joshua Foer
Author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guid to the World's Hidden Wonders

Born September 23, 1982
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FRIDAY: My Book World | E. M. Forster's The Life to Come and Other Stories
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A Writer's Wit: Dannie Abse

9/22/2020

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The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
​Dannie Abse
​Author of The Presence
Born September 22, 1923
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FRIDAY: My Book World | E. M. Forster's A Life to Come and Other Short Stories
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A Writer's Wit: Sean Covey

9/17/2020

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Although I’m a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I’m actually amazed that I survived.
​Sean Covey
Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Born September 17, 1964
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Byron Lane's Novel A Star Is Bored
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A Writer's Wit: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

9/16/2020

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I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward—well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.
​Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author of Finding Your Roots
Born September 16, 1950
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Byron Lane's Novel A Star Is Bored
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A Writer's Wit: Agatha Christie

9/15/2020

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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
​Agatha Christie
Author of Murder on the Orient Express
Born September 15, 1890
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Byron Lane's Novel A Star Is Bored
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A Writer's Wit: Pat Cadigan

9/10/2020

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I took this “how to build computers” course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want. 
​Pat Cadigan
Author of Tea from an Empty Cup
Born September 10, 1953
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Paul Monette's Last Watch of the Night
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A Writer's Wit: Mary Hunter Austin

9/9/2020

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Death by starvation is slow.
​Mary Hunter Austin
Author of The Land of Journeys' Ending
Born September 9, 1868
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Paul Monette's Memoir Last Watch of the Night
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A Writer's Wit: Ann Beattie

9/8/2020

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You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. 
​Ann Beattie
Author of Mrs. Nixon
Born September 8, 1947
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Paul Monette's Memoir Last Watch of the Night
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A WRITER'S WIT: RACHEL JOHNSON

9/3/2020

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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
​Rachel Johnson
Author of 
Rake's Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis
Born September 3, 1965
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TOMORROW: Kate Lardner's Shut Up He Explained
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A Writer's Wit: David Daiches

9/2/2020

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The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.
​David Daiches
Author of Scotch Whisky: Its Past and Present
Born September 2, 1912
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Kate Lardner's ​Shut Up He Explained: The Memoir of a Blacklisted Kid
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A Writer's Wit: Liz Carpenter

9/1/2020

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Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
​Liz Carpenter
Author of Unplanned Parenthood
Born September 1, 1920
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Kate Lardner's Shut Up He Explained: The Memoir of a Blacklisted Kid
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A Writer's Wit: George Packer

8/13/2020

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Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
​George Packer
Author of 
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Born August 13, 1960
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TOMORROW: My Book World: Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki
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A Writer's Wit: Chris Bohjalian

8/12/2020

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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
​Chris Bohjalian
Author of The Flight Attendant
Born August 12,1962
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki
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A Writer's Wit: Charles M. Blow

8/11/2020

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One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
Charles M. Blow
Author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Born August 11,1970
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki
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