High Tea and Crooked Minds
The relics and their valuable jewels belong to Edwina now, but so does the fate that comes with them.
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“The Thin Santa Claus” by Ellis Parker Butler
“People likes the bringing Santy Claus: I guess they don’t think much of the taking-away business.”
“Partisan” by Michael Shaara
“He sometimes wondered, whenever Yugoslavia was in the news, if any of the old group had survived. They had been good men. When he had been with them, he had been a pretty good man himself.”
News of the Week: Gift Books, Oprah’s Favorites, and It Might Be Time to Clean Your Fridge
In the news for the week ending November 15, 2019, are book picks, gift picks, Christmas trees on both coasts, dirty refrigerators, burnt toast, and more.
“The Water’s Fine” by John Peter Toohey
“Jimmy Martin’s heart persisted in acting like the well-known eyes of the young lady in the song. He just couldn’t make it behave.”
Out Among Cypress and Lilies
A friendship is tested when a secret Denny has been hiding his entire life finally comes out.
News of the Week: Sweater Weather, James Dean’s New Movie, and the Happy Meal Turns 40
In the news for the week ending November 8, 2019, are a new pinball record, an old subway station, the return of James Dean, our favorite Happy Meal toys, and SPACE.
Dear Idiot (A Writer’s Lament)
My earliest published work did not always receive the highest magnitude of praise.
Considering History: How Lillian E. Smith Modeled a Southern Alternative to White Supremacy
White, Southern, and patrician, Lillian Smith used her summer camp to educate multiple generations of young women in opposition to white supremacy and wrote groundbreaking books that were praised by Martin Luther King.
Why I Don’t Drive
Gay Haubner shares hair-raising tales of cruising in the White Delight, scoring 16 out of 100 on her driver’s test, and a surviving a car fire put out by a bucketful of minnows.
News of the Week: Holiday Season Has Begun, NaNoWriMo Is Here, and This Column Is Rated “G”
In the news for the week ending November 1, 2019, are the start of Christmas season (already?), people writing novels, rats driving cars, eggs being deviled, and more.
Cartoons: Boardroom Buffoonery
A lot has changed in America’s boardrooms in the last 70 years, but you can always count on them for some funny business.
6 Myths about the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Ninety years ago, Wall Street witnessed the beginning of the financial horror known as Black Tuesday. Many of the legends about the crash the led to the Great Depression turn out not to be true.
“The Tracer of Lost Persons” by Robert W. Chambers
“There’s too much gilt all over this club! There’s too much everywhere. Half the world is stucco, the rest rococo.”
The Hawk
How many lines must one cross to succeed in a cutthroat sales operation? From the November/December 2019 issue.
World War II Posters That Made a Difference on the Homefront
Val Lauder was there when World War II started, and remembers the posters that reminded stateside Americans of the sacrifices being made overseas.