December 2021
Literature Direct Publishing
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Unlike the ancient Odyssey or the modernist Ulysses, the epic work that is Amazon delivers immediate gratification to all customers...
Read MoreSoviets vs. Nazis
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More than seven decades have passed since the end of World War II and what was once part of lived communal knowledge has gradually fallen away...
Read More“It was like a great trashy novel had come to life”
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She had everything she could possibly want. And then the police announced that she and her lover-boy nephew were cold-blooded killers...
Read MoreThe 7th Mode
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Racers such as the bounty hunter Captain Falcon hovered smoothly across intergalactic circuits suspended in the sky...
Read MoreDecorating Fragrant Evergreens
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Celebrants added nuts, strings of popcorn or beads, oranges, lemons, candies and home-made trinkets. However, widely-read newspapers and ladies' magazines raised the standards for ornamentation...
Read MoreSusanna Crossman: Riding the Baking Edge #7
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It is December. People bake, putting goods into ovens. Quiet sweetness is placed on tables...
Read MoreChristmas Number
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There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes...
Read MoreDouglas Penick: Christmas Claus Causality
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Presents embody a moment in which the obligation to work for every material joy is suspended...
Read Morebell hooks in Denmark
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We have so many new groups like the Spice Girls, who are asserting a kind of feminist adventurism with their music...
Read MoreExtraordinary Winter
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Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States...
Read MoreLouverture at the Brit
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Based on extensive research, including a visit to Fort de Joux, Martineau’s historical romance repeatedly stated the idea of black agency and capability...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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