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An odd assortment of itinerant and not-so-itinerant lodgers come together in a spa town boarding house in E. F. Benson’s Paying Guests. Some are strangers, some chafe under family ties, and some would like to form new ties. Stuckinabook’s review … Continue reading →

“Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.” So begins Protestant theologian H. Richard Niebuhr‘s first book, where he argues the proliferation of Christian denominations has less to do with theological difference than with attachment … Continue reading →

Many of Emily Dickinson‘s poems remain under copyright more than 130 years after she died. With some of her manuscripts held by her sister, and others by her brother’s mistress, both camps filtered what they were willing to publish and … Continue reading →

This year’s #PublicDomainDayCountdown features several detectives’ debuts. One of the biggest detective franchises that began in 1929 is Ellery Queen, which is both a pen name first used by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, and the name of the detective … Continue reading →

The all-Technicolor movie musical Gold Diggers of Broadway was the third highest-grossing film of 1929, ran in theaters until 1939, and is now partly lost. One reel that resurfaced in the 1980s included a lavish performance of “Tip-Toe Through the … Continue reading →

“If you look at Hemingway’s prose and the writing he did about war, it was as radical in its time as anything we have seen since,” wrote critic Gail Caldwell, quoted by Thomas Putnam in 2006 in a piece about … Continue reading →