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December 11, 2020
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 | Santa's Helpers If you know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen...then you certainly know Rudolph! While Santa Claus' reindeer team dates back to The Night Before Christmas, written in 1822, it would be over a century before Rudolph joined the herd. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in 1939 in a story commissioned by Montgomery Ward department store. The store tasked one of its copywriters, 34-year-old Robert L. May, with creating a Christmas story that could be promoted as a giveaway for holiday shoppers. Nearly 2.4 million copies of the original Rudolph booklet were given out, with even more produced after the end of World War II. In 1947, Robert L. May obtained the rights to Rudolph, and his brother-in-law, songwriter Johnny Marks, set the story to music. From there, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer went down in history! Dash away with these titles |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | Alix E. Harrow Alix E. Harrow was born in 1989 in the United States and grew up in Kentucky. She earned a bachelor's degree in history and then a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies". I've been a student and a teacher, a farm-worker and a cashier, an ice-cream-scooper and a 9-to-5 office-dweller. I've lived in tents and cars, cramped city apartments and lonely cabins, and spent a summer in a really sweet '79 VW Vanagon Westfalia. I have library cards in at least five states. Now I'm a full-time writer living in with my husband and two semi-feral kids in Berea, Kentucky. It is, I'm very sure, the best of all possible worlds. Check out her books here. |
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 | The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2020 Courtesy of Lit Hub-Featuring Zadie Smith, Helen Macdonald, Claudia Rankine, Samantha Irby, and more. Check them out here |
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| Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.-Anne Frank
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