children’s books
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The History of Literature #452 — Charles and Mary Lamb | A Letter To My Transgender Daughter (with Carolyn Hays)
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at two topics. First, the story of Charles and Mary Lamb, whose children’s book Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was published more than two hundred years ago and has never been out of print. Part of the literary circle that included Romantic-era luminaries like Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, the siblings dedicated Continue reading
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Brightening Your Day With a Little Little My
You wake up. Grumble your way to work. Slug down some coffee. Read some horror show news about people cheating America. It’s the end of March. There’s snow on the ground. Do you really want to blog about these stories? Like this one? Workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud is so commonplace that it costs the Continue reading
