Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Finding comfort in this poem …

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… The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats

Remembering …

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… Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

In case you forgot

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… QUOTES ARE FACTS. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

The poetry effect

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… I Can’t Look Away From This Poem About Looking (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Writers of Faith …

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… 25 Great Novelists Who Affirm Faith (Hat tip, Tim Davis)
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Coming to a theater near you …

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… Banijay U.K. Signs Development Deal With Ellie Wood’s Clearwood Films, Sets Adaptation of Barbara Pym Novel ‘Excellent Women’ as First Pro...

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Friday, August 29, 2025

Maturing …

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... Report From The Other Side

Lovely singer, lovely song …

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… Sarah McLachlan Adia

Nice to know …

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… Michael Updike: Gravestones Don’t Have to be Morbid (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The private Updike …

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… Rabbit’s Runners (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Morning reading at THPR …

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… Traveling in style with Emily Dickinson

Good news …

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… The Latin Mass Lives On (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Just so you know …

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… Extreme Heat Will Change You

A poem for this morning …

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…… Brooks Haxton — An Interval of Five Tones, Being the Domina
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Reading at THPR …

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… “Beach” by Stanley Plumly

A poem for this morning …

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… C. S. Giscombe — Second Dream

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You

The Great English Joke …

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… Daisy Waugh, granddaughter of Evelyn Waugh and daughter of Auberon, has a new book out ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

The private Updike …

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… Selected Letters of John Updike (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

A poem for this morning …

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… Olivia Sokolowski — Lover of Cars

Hide and Seek …

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… I remained hidden as a matter of honor
Monday, August 25, 2025

Sounds like a good plan …

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… POTUS puts U.S. Army in control of America’s railroads
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Just so you knw …

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… Oops! 6 English Words Created Through a Mistake
Friday, August 22, 2025

A poem for this morning …

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… John Skoyles — The Second Olga
Thursday, August 21, 2025

All aboard …

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… Making transoceanic journeys so much easier in 1914

Tracking the decline …

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… The replacement of disinterested judgment by the rule of the uninterested ( Hat tip, Dave lull)

The poetry of words …

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… ROGER’S THESAURUS (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

So true …

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… The Devil’s in the Details of Modernity (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Q&A …

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… My Interview With Judge Patrick F. Dugan, Candidate For Philadelphia District Attorney

A poem for this morning …

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… Lorenzo Thomas — Displacement
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Bravo …

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… Tulsi Stares Down UK, Scoring Another Big Win for American Consumers

Something to think on …

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… Motivation

Slippery slope on this day in 1954 …

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… The beginning of a festering problem for the U.S.

A poem for this morning

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… Hilda Hilst — From “Alcohologues”
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Hope in 1946 …

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… Someone is having his 79th
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Literary obesity …

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… There Are Too Many Overweight Biographies Whatever happened to Plutarch’s blessed brevity? by Joseph Epstein (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

The adventure of reading …

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… How I read poems, with aphantasia ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

And the nominees are …

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… The Petrona Award 2025 - Longlis t (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

A poem

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… The View from an Airplane at Night, over California - Bruce Bawer (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Something to think on …

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… inspiring Quotes

Poem for Sunday: Dislocation …

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… Someone is walking on your grave
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Hot off the presses …

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… Sports Illustrated without those swimsuit models

A poem for this morning …

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… Louis Simpson — Sway
Thursday, August 14, 2025

A man for our times …

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… C.S. Lewis in the Age of Bleakness

Something I’ve said every month for seventeen years …

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… Thank you, Mr. President!

A poem for this morning …

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… Leslie Richardson — Leftovers
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

A poem for this morning …

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… Elizabeth Spires — Second Story

Intimate correspondence …

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… I felt like a voyeur reading this great Scottish writer's love letters ( Hatip, Dave Luul)

Uncle Sam wanted her …

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… Opha May Johnson becomes the first in 1918

Second in command …

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… Vance on Knife’s Edge (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Something to think on

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… Happiness
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Hide and seek …

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… Sue Hendrickson makes big discovery in South Dakota

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Monday, August 11, 2025

Nice place for a stroll …

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… A Review of Four Walks in Central Park by Aaron Poochigian ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Just so you know …

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… Eddington Is the Must-See Covid Masterpiece (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Breaking news …

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… “We begin bombing in five minutes”

Something to think on …

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Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? — Anne Frank
Sunday, August 10, 2025

A nice mix …

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… Poetry Against All Odds: Banned Books, Ernesto Cardenal, and Poetry in Spanish

Father and son …

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… The Kindest Cut 2: The Shavening

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You

Q&A

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… A chat with John Berryman

Time for a smile …

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… A Litle Humor: Needs Editing

Wagner’s renegade urge …

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… ‘Wagner and the Creation of the Ring’ Review: Back to Valhalla (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

There’s a sucker born every minute …

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… P. T. Barnum’s connection with George Washington
Saturday, August 09, 2025

Sad anniversary …

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… In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal. i spent an afternoon talking with Father Arupe in that cafeteria of what...

Still waters …

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… Recollections of time spent at a now famous pond

Finding faith …

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… Review: The Mary Pages by Sally Read ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A Silver Crown …

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… The cold and forbidding worlds of Cynthia Ozick. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Roots …

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… ‘It never leaves me’: Wisconsin author’s hometown is his longstanding muse (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Friday, August 08, 2025

A fresh look at a classic case …

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… ‘ An Officer and a Spy’ Review: Roman Polanski’s New Spin on the Dreyfus Affair (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

A poem for this morning …

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… Claribel Alegría — Documentary

Apprection …

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… Bryan Appleyard: Jerry Garcia’s American journey (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Up, up, and away!…

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… It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Thursday, August 07, 2025

It happened in my neck of the woods …

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… Suppressing rebellious whiskey makers in Pennsylvania

Master of her craft …

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… Esther Bubley - A Life in Photograph y ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

A poem for this morning …

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… Susan Fox — Sceaux the Day They Turn Off the Fountain
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

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  I can't remember where I first encountered that name -- Angus Wilson -- but I'm glad, having now finished one of his early collect...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Monday, August 04, 2025

One of a kind …

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… In Search of Samuel Clemens (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Today’s Poem …

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… Light Shining Out of Darkness (Hat tip, Dave Lull)
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Publishing history …

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… The Saturday Evening Post begins its long history

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You
Sunday, August 03, 2025

Something to think on …

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… Quotes To Inspire You

A poem for this morning …

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… Jacqueline Osherow —= Mural from the Temple of Longing Thither

Christmas in August …

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… Santa Claus goes to a town in Indiana on this day in 1946

Farewell …

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… The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside review – last words from an essential poet of our age (Hat tip, Dave Lull)
Saturday, August 02, 2025

Birthday of a Native Son …

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… Born in poverty-stricken Harlem NY in 1924

Hmm …

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… In defense of young men (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

Cause for celebration …

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… John Henry Newman: Newest Doctor of the Church (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

A poem for this morning …

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… Paulé Bártón — The Sleep Bus
Friday, August 01, 2025

Let us raise a toast …

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… Opening time for Tolkien and CS Lewis - Harry Mount on the reopening of the Inklings' Oxford pubs (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

The Beethoven many do not notice …

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… BEETHOVEN’S CATHOLIC HUMANISM

A poem for this morning …

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… Cathy Park Hong — Ballad of Fort Mann

Noteworthy date …

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… Birthday of famous American writer
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Ahead of his time …

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… Gorgias: Plato’s Guide to Online Discussions ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)
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