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My humans in Paris...by Big Honey Dog (Part 2)

These are excerpts from the Big Honey Dog blog - by Honey the Great Dane, who recounts what her humans did when they went on a Big Flying Machine and flew to visit the faraway pla[...]

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Today in Literary History April 9: Samuel Clemens completes his apprenticeship

On this day in 1859, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) gets his license as a pilot of Missippi steamboats in the District of St. Louis after completing a two-year apprenticeship. He woul[...]

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Literary Locales: A is for Atlanta and A Man in Full

Atlanta -- Scarlett O'Hara's Atlanta is a very distant memory in Tom Wolfe's look at this southern capital city in his book A Man in Full. The modern version of Atlanta does[...]

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Literary Travel: In the footsteps of John Steinbeck in California

SALINAS, CA.—The first sign this region is still all about agriculture is the life-size mural of Marilyn Monroe just a few steps into the National Steinbeck Centre — she [...]

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The forests in North Carolina were the backdrop for The Hunger Games
 

Literary Travel and the North Carolina of the Hunger Games

ASHEVILLE, N.C.—Out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America is a fictional world that fans of The Hunger Games know as Panem and that residents of Nort[...]

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Where Virginia Woolf ate her last meal
 

Literary History Today March 23: The Woolfs start Hogarth Press

When Leonard and Virginia Woolf got married, they were determined to get a dog name John and start their own press called Hogarth. Don't know if they ever got their dog John but[...]

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Oscar Wilde suite, Cadogan Hotel, London
 

Literary History Today March 9: Auden reviews Wilde's life

In a New Yorker review of Oscar Wilde's letters published on this day in 1963, W.E. Auden wrote "From the beginning Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fate [...]

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The childhood Colombian home of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 

Literary History Today March 6: Gabriel Garcia Marquez born

  On this day in 1928, Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is born in Arataca, Colombia. His grandmother was the first to tell him stories when he was a child about m[...]

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McTeague's Saloon is named after the dentist in Frank Norris' novel
 

Literary History Today March 5: Frank Norris born

    Frank Norris, who was born on this day in 1870 in Chicago made his way westward and became the quintessential California author.  His major work McTeague is sti[...]

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My Humans in Paris...by guest poster Big Honey Dog (Part 1)

These are excerpts from my friend writer Hsin-Yi Cohen who lives in Australia. She is the creator and writer of the popular Big Honey Dog blog . This is the first of three parts[...]

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