Apr. 30, 1926: Virginia Woolf, after beginning the Time Passes interlude in To the Lighthouse: "Is it nonsense, is it brilliance?" #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Apr. 30, 1926: Virginia Woolf, after beginning the Time Passes interlude in To the Lighthouse: "Is it nonsense, is it brilliance?" #RBDays
July 4, 1862: In a rowboat on the Thames, Charles Dodgson tells the Liddell sisters, incl. young Alice, of adventures underground. #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 12:33 PM
July 4, 1862: In a rowboat on the Thames, Charles Dodgson tells the Liddell sisters, incl. young Alice, of adventures underground. #RBDays
Oct. 25, 1946: Ludwig Wittgenstein may or may not have threatened Karl Popper with a poker at the Cambridge Moral Science Club. #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Oct. 25, 1946: Ludwig Wittgenstein may or may not have threatened Karl Popper with a poker at the Cambridge Moral Science Club. #RBDays
Feb. 3, 1971: NYPD detective Frank Serpico catches a .22 in the cheek during a drug bust: payback for testifying vs. corruption? #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Feb. 3, 1971: NYPD detective Frank Serpico catches a .22 in the cheek during a drug bust: payback for testifying vs. corruption? #RBDays
Nov. 2, 1962: Kubrick telegram to Terry Southern: "I have a proposition which would profitably occupy you in London for next 8 wks" #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Nov. 2, 1962: Kubrick telegram to Terry Southern: "I have a proposition which would profitably occupy you in London for next 8 wks" #RBDays
Mar. 15, 1945: 2nd Lt. Paul Fussell, 20, is wounded by shrapnel at Alsace, ending a combat career that would spur his greatest books #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Mar. 15, 1945: 2nd Lt. Paul Fussell, 20, is wounded by shrapnel at Alsace, ending a combat career that would spur his greatest books #RBDays
Aug. 6, 1666: Future playwright and novelist Aphra Behn makes her first report as a spy in Antwerp in the employ of Charles II. #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Aug. 6, 1666: Future playwright and novelist Aphra Behn makes her first report as a spy in Antwerp in the employ of Charles II. #RBDays
Sept. 2, 1933: VWoolf diary on Testament of Youth: "I am reading w extreme greed a book by Vera Brittain. Not that I much like her." #RBDays
November 17, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Sept. 2, 1933: VWoolf diary on Testament of Youth: "I am reading w extreme greed a book by Vera Brittain. Not that I much like her." #RBDays
Jan. 1, 1947: 12th birthday of Dolores Haze, aka Lolita: 57" tall, 121 IQ, "aggressive, boisterous, listless, obstinate" per her mom #RBDays
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Jan. 1, 1947: 12th birthday of Dolores Haze, aka Lolita: 57" tall, 121 IQ, "aggressive, boisterous, listless, obstinate" per her mom #RBDays
Jan. 2, 1995: Cuban inmates tunnel out of Florida's Glades Correctional Inst, inspiring the opening of Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight #RBDays
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Jan. 2, 1995: Cuban inmates tunnel out of Florida's Glades Correctional Inst, inspiring the opening of Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight #RBDays
Jan. 3, 1951: Susan Sontag, 17, married Philip Rieff, 28, "with full consciousness + fear of my will toward self-destructiveness" #RBDays
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Jan. 3, 1951: Susan Sontag, 17, married Philip Rieff, 28, "with full consciousness + fear of my will toward self-destructiveness" #RBDays