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Google.co.uk is running this image’s day. It’s St George’s Day — and traditionally celebrated as Shakespeare’s birthday, too. The Writer’s Almanac reminds us why it’s celebrated as Shakespeare’s birthday: Today we celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England (1564 -1616). We don’t know his birthday for sure, but he was baptized on
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People talk of a New York state of mind (below are the lyrics of the song by Billy Joel). Surely, there’s a Singapore state of mind, too.
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Today is the birthday of two poets, Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) and A.E. Houseman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936), and the playwright, Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983). Here are three poems by Frost.
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Yesterday was John Updike’s birthday and today is Philip Roth’s. Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was exactly a year older than Roth (born on March 19, 1933). Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Roth in Newark, New Jersey. Updike is one of my favourite writers. I read Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus last year
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Has anyone written better than John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009)? Today is his birthday. He was a wonderful writer to the end of his days. I loved The Widows of Eastwick .He could make even adultery lyrical, as in Marry Me . And here is the beginning of Rabbit, Redux, the
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I just read on The Writer’s Almanac that today is the birthday of William Gibson (born on March 17,1948). No mention of that on his @GreatDismal Twitter account. His new book, Distrust that Particular Flavour, takes its title from the essay, Time Machine Cuba, contained in the book. Click on the link to read the
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Today is the birthday of Jack Kerouac, Edward Albee and Carl Hiaasen, according to the Writer’s Almanac. Three writers born on the same day! Albee is, of course, best remembered for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Which starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Hiaasen is a bestseller. Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)
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Tom Wolfe was born on March 2, 1931, and what a gadfly he has been! One of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 70s, he blew me away when I first read him. I couldn’t recall anyone writing like him. I must admit I liked his essays more than his
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The American poet Howard Nemerov was born in New York on this day (February 29) in 1920. He died on July 5, 1991. This poem of his reminds me of Auden’s The Unknown Citizen. This is what the poet himself said about his poem: “Life Cycle of Common Man is probably a bad joke about
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It was Auden’s birth anniversary yesterday. He was born in York on Feb 21, 1907, and he died in Vienna on Sept 29, 1973. I love many of his poems, and when I saw this picture of a painting which inspired one of his famous poems, I could not resist having it here. So here
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