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| Added: Saturday, July 19, 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| Source: APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast feed | ||||||||||||||
Summary: Friday's Poem: : "Opposing Forces" by Eamon Grennan from Matter of Fact. Friday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, born in Louisville, Kentucky (1939). His father was an insurance agent, and Thompson grew up in a comfortable, affluent home. In high school, he was accepted into a prestigious club called the Athenaeum Literary Association along with all the other wealthy and socially elite young people of Louisville. But around the same time, Thompson's father got sick and died from a rare immune disorder. His mother had to take a job as a librarian to support the family, and Thompson suddenly became the poor member of his group of friends, the only one who couldn't afford to go to an Ivy League school... |
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