Friday, June 19, 2026

Theater Review: ‘David Copperfield,’ at 59E59 Theaters, NYC

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Contemporary readers recognize Charles Dickens as a novelist of astonishing productivity, but Victorians also knew him as an enthusiastic t...

TV Quote of the Day (‘Gilmore Girls,’ on a Surprise at a Graduation Party)

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[ At her college graduation party, Rory Gilmore is stunned by a marriage proposal from longtime boyfriend Logan Huntzberger. Her rich grand...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

This Day in Literary History (Death of Scottie Fitzgerald, Dutiful Daughter of Jazz Age Dazzlers)

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June 18, 1986— Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith , who was instrumental in reviving the tattered reputation of her father, Jazz Age aut...

Quote of the Day (Tom Wicker, on Exploiting Unhappiness for ‘The Amusement or Titillation of Others’)

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“When I dragged myself into the [Sandhill] Citizen office about noon the next day, I had a visitor — a worn-out looking woman with a ZaSu P...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Quote of the Day (Studs Terkel, on the ‘Tonic’ of Community Action)

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“I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. I...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Review: NT Theatre Live’s ‘Playboy of the Western World,’ by John Millington Synge

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Part of the foundation of the Irish theater movement in the early 20 th   century , the dark comedy The Playboy of the Western World by Joh...

Quote of the Day (James Joyce, on ‘Insult and Hatred’ Vs. Love)

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“Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of ...