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Tag Archives: PublicDomainDayCountdown
A Nobel laureate’s unlikely first novel
John Steinbeck‘s first novel Cup of Gold is historical fiction with touches of legend, about privateer Henry Morgan’s quest for riches and a woman’s heart in 17th century Panama. What Steinbeck later called an “immature experiment” hasn’t been as well … Continue reading
Savin’ my love for you
Jazz pianist Fats Waller was called “the Black Horowitz” by fellow pianist Oscar Levant. Though he died before he turned 40, he copyrighted over 400 songs in his lifetime, and may have ghostwritten many others. Two of his biggest hits, … Continue reading
A fish story lands in the public domain
Actress Joan Lowell‘s Cradle of the Deep was a best-selling memoir of a childhood at sea, sailing the globe for years with an all-male crew. But after Lincoln Colcord, who actually had spent years at sea, called it “unmitigated bosh”, … Continue reading
The sound of the western
Matthew Kerns has a detailed, illustrated appreciation of The Virginian, the 1929 film that set the standard for Hollywood westerns in the sound era, just as the novel it was based on set the standard for western fiction when it … Continue reading
How to cook for forty humans
Baptistin Allevi was one of America’s early celebrity chefs. Born in France, he came to the US in 1913, and oversaw the Savarin restaurants at New York’s Penn Station. His Savarin Cookbook, subtitled “Scientific Cooking for Profit”, aimed for elegance … Continue reading
Awkward lodgings
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
A theologian learns from sociologists
“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
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“A wife at daybreak I shall be”
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
Ellery Queen arrives on the scene
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
Digging for gold, tiptoeing through tulips
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
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