Dawn Reader
A blog about books--about writing--about readers and reading--about teaching.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
On (Semi-) Pause to Finish a Writing Project
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Visitors here know that for a couple of years I was serializing a very rough draft of a memoir about chasing Mary Shelley's story....
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Sunday Sundries, 189
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1. AOTW: I think we may be nearing a Lifetime Achievement Award for those drivers who insist that when their lane is closing, they sti...
Friday, May 25, 2018
101 Ways to Be Revolting
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It was almost exactly fifty years ago--on May 24, 1968--that I directed my second play at the old Aurora Middle School (102 E. Garfield R...
Thursday, May 24, 2018
"Cheyenne, Cheyenne, where will you be campin' tonight?"
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Cheyenne Bodie. RIP. ( Lin k to New York Times obit.) I watched Cheyenne (with Clint Walker as the eponymous Western hero) throughou...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Philip Roth, RIP
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Roth at 80--from Wall Street Journal I guess it shouldn't have been a surprise. He was ... older (85). And, a few years ago (2012), ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
I Was (Am) a Stutterer
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It was much worse when I was a kid in Oklahoma. It was bad enough, in fact, that one of my teachers at Adams Elementary School (1st grad...
Monday, May 21, 2018
Monday Musings & Muttering
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I've been thinking about a few things--not one is worthy of an entire blog--so here they are, in no particular order ... 1. Even as...
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