by bertbaby | May 11, 2014 | Book Reviews
May 11: The world’s oldest dated book, the Diamond Sutra, was published “by Wang Jie on behalf of his parents on the fifteenth of the fourth moon of the ninth year of Xian Long” — this day in 868.
by bertbaby | May 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
SkyMall vol. 1, no. 1 Fall, 1903 This is your captains speaking: These are exciting times indeed. With the advent of controlled, powered, and briefly sustained heavier-than-air human flight, men, women, and children will be able to travel distances of up to 250...
by bertbaby | May 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
May 10: On this day in 1907 Kenneth Grahame wrote the first of a series of letters to his son, Alastair, telling the stories that would become The Wind in the Willows.
by bertbaby | May 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
The award-winning author on Zen monks, the man in Anton Chekhov’s closet, and the commencement address that became his new book, Congratulations, by the way.
by bertbaby | May 9, 2014 | Book Reviews
May 9: Shel Silverstein died on this day in 1999.
by bertbaby | May 8, 2014 | Book Reviews
May 7: On this day in 1932, thirty-four-year-old William Faulkner began his off-and-on career as a screenwriter, reluctantly (and just barely) reporting for work in Hollywood.
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