The Obscure, Forgotten, and Undiscovered
James K. HannaBrief stories, observations, introductions, and profiles of little-known characters, or reminders of long-forgotten events. Often including links to learn more. I am a historian, essayist, and author. Subscribe for free.
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Kerouac's childhood reading list
This question interests me: What did writers read? I’m thinking of writers who flourished in the Twentieth Century, writers whose work I’ve read, enjoyed, and kept in the bookcase to read again, among them, in no particular order, John O’Ha...
“I would prefer not to” be robbed.
In 1970, a wannabe railway bandit attempted to fleece 50 passengers on a Pittsburgh streetcar, but apparently the motorman and his riders had read Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” famous for Bartleby’s oft-repeated line, “I would...
First to pay respects to the Unknowns
On this date May 28, in 1958, Walter Davis, of Corry, Pennsylvania was first in line to pay respects to the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and Korea.
An estimated 28,000 people followed Walter at the Capitol over three days. Another 100,...
phoning Kurt Vonnegut
Photo by Wesley Hilario on Unsplash
Are you reading multiple books? I usually have two going, one fiction, one nonfiction.
I’ve tried to have more than two but found it untenable, so I wish I could be like Heather King who has four books...
Is baseball holy?
“Is baseball holy?” That’s a question the character named Peter the Saint asks of a clergyman in Pull my Daisy, the 1959 film featuring Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky. It was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the th...
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