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This Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 1st, 2010 Beloved English novelist Charles (John Huffam) Dickens (David Copperfield, 1849-50) is born in 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Charles Dickens, b. February 2, 1812, d. 1870
Suggested Reading Novels The Pickwick Papers, 1836-37. Oliver Twist, 1837-38. Nicholas Nickleby, 1838-39. The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840-41. Barnaby Rudge, 1841. Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843-44. Dombey and Son, 1846-48. David Copperfield, 1849-50. Bleak House, 1852-53. Hard Times, 1854. Little Dorrit, 1855-57. A Tale of Two Cities, 1859. Great Expectations, 1860-61. Our Mutual Friend, 1864-66. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1970. Sketches & tales Sketches by Boz, 1836. Sketches of a Young Gentleman, 1838. A Christmas Carol, 1843. Travel sketches & impressions American Notes, 1842. Pictures from Italy, 1846.
Posted by: The Editors This Month in Black LambVolume 8, Number 2 — February 2010February 1st, 2010 In our cover article, Do inquiring minds want to know?, Terry Ross does some research and finds, surprisingly, that scientists are not in agreement on global warming, and that global warming may not even be occurring. Former prison inmate Dean Suess resigns himself to praying alone in Church without walls. In Ready for your closeup? Ed Goldberg ponders what lengths people will go to to achieve fame.
Posted by: The Editors Do inquiring minds want to know?What one curious person discovered about global warmingFebruary 1st, 2010 BY TERRY ROSS When I was in my early teens I used to read — devour, really — the magazine Scientific American. There was no doubt in my mind that I would one day become a scientist. Along with four or five like-minded classmates, I even got to be on a TV panel show discussing science with a science teacher. No one saw the show except our families, because it was on the educational station, but that didn’t dampen my enthusiasm.
This is all by way of prelude to my saying that if I’m not a scientist in any sense of the word, I am still interested in things scientific. Which has led me recently to the subject of global warming. I’ve done my best to read up on the subject, in hopes of discovering whether the predictions of virtually imminent catastrophe are something I should be worrying about, and I’ve made a few discoveries.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryFebruary 1st, 2010 Novelist and future Bloomsberry Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, 1925) is born in South London in 1882, daughter of the famous literary intellectual Leslie Stephen. Virginia Woolf, b. January 25, 1882, d. 1941
Suggested Reading Novels The Voyage Out, 1915. Night and Day, 1919. Jacob’s Room, 1922. Mrs Dalloway, 1925. To the Lighthouse, 1927. Orlando: A Biography, 1928. The Waves, 1931. Flush: A Biography, 1933. The Years, 1937. Between the Acts, 1941. Other The Common Reader, 1925. Roger Fry: A Biography, 1940. Collected Essays, 1966-67. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vols. I-V, 1984.
Posted by: The Editors Last Month in Black LambVolume 8, Number 1 — January 2010January 1st, 2010 In our cover article for this Seventh Anniversary Issue, Terry Ross offers “suggestions for making the next few decades better than the last. In Got a light? Elizabeth Fournier tries hard to bond with her blind date over their common love for old matchbooks. Leslie Russell celebrates beekeeping in Light for the larder.
Posted by: The Editors Light for the larderJanuary 1st, 2010 BY LESLIE RUSSELL If you could wring the color out of October aspens, distill it into a viscous light, and capture this light in a Mason jar, you would have honey. We capped thirty-five pints of it this fall. Like a piece of super-enlarged honeycomb, the jar pattern covers the countertop, too precious to put away.
Posted by: The Editors Two months ago in Black LambVolume 7, Number 12 — December 2009December 1st, 2009 In the cover article of our December issue, New world, Gillian Wilce writes her last column as London Pride. In our page two feature, Facing facts, Dean Suess re-relegates himself, once an extremely accomplished person, to the ranks of the mediocre. According to Ian Archer, raising children involves A thousand deaths.
Posted by: The Editors November 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 11 — November 2009November 1st, 2009 In the cover article of our November issue, Till death us do…, Lane Browning discovers details of a friend’s death through an autopsy report, obtained online at 50¢ a page. In our page two feature, Dean Suess shows that “trials have little or nothing to do with truth” in Criminal Injustice. The world’s still going to hell, but in a heat wave, Ed Goldberg finds himself in Apathy season.
Posted by: The Editors Till death us do…The parts cannot add up to the whole.November 1st, 2009 BY LANE BROWNING The scalp and subgaleal tissues appear normal. The calvarium is typical in thickness. There is very little fluid in the chest cavities. She was an internationally known author and educator. She was indefatigable, wise, a beacon for thousands. My friend, my familiar.
We emailed every day, sometimes many many many times a day. We collaborated on two books and a series of educational CDs. We weathered rotating life traumas via the Internet tether. She called me her “sister by choice,” and she was, professionally, a savior to my son. But until she died I didn’t know that her epicardium glistened.
Posted by: The Editors October 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 10 — October 2009October 1st, 2009 The All Hotels & Motels Issue In the cover article of our All-Hotels & Motels Issue, Terry Ross remembers some rather disappointing lodgings but also the cheapest of all, a tiny joint on the island of Crete. In our page 2 feature Gringo responsibility, Greg Roberts says that it is the white man’s duty to throw money at the natives. In Motel effluvium, Elizabeth Fournier relies on forensic skills to clean up a stinky room in Fresno. Toby Tompkins writes A love letter to a wonderful albergo in Florence, Hotel Beacci Tornabuoni.
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