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  Damon Runyon Theater - Sense of...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into a black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Letters from Max - A Poet a...

  Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo

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  A real professor and her student forge a friendship through correspondence as they discuss love, art, life, cancer, and death. In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years—in which Ritvo’s illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed—the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo’s exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. “We’ll always know one another forever, however long ever is,” Ritvo writes. “And that’s all I want—is to know you forever.” Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.Praise for Letters from Max “An unusual, beautiful book about nothing less than the necessity of art in our lives. Two big-hearted, big-brained writers have allowed us to eavesdrop on their friendship: jokes and heartbreaks, admiration, hard work, tender work.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway “Immediate comparisons will be made to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Artist . . . this book is a nuanced look at the evolution of an incredible talent facing mortality and the mentor, never condescending, who recognizes his gift. Their infectious letters shine with a love of words and beauty.” —The Observer “Deeply moving, often heartbreaking. . . . A captivating celebration of life and love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Moving and erudite . . . devastating and lyrical . . . Ruhl draws a comparison between their correspondence and that between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, and indeed, with the depth and intelligence displayed, one feels in the presence of literary titans.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Habibti Driver (NHB Modern Plays)

  Shamia Chalabi, Sarah Henley

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  Meet Ashraf and his 'Habibti' – his daughter Shazia. He's an Egyptian, Muslim taxi driver; she's half-Egyptian, half-Wiganese, and more interested in the last call at the bar than the call to prayer.
  Their relationship is put to the test when Ashraf introduces Shazia to his new Egyptian bride, whilst she is attempting to break the news of her own secret engagement. In Ashraf's taxi they must navigate driving lessons, sing karaoke and explore whether, despite their differences, family can win out regardless.
  Habibti Driver is a heartwarming and hilarious play, based on Shamia Chalabi's real-life experiences and co-written with Sarah Henley, exploring the clashes, compromises and comedy that come with living in a mixed-culture family in today's Britain.
  First performed in an earlier version – Burkas and Bacon Butties – at the VAULT Festival, London, this revised, full-length version premiered at the Octagon Theatre Bolton in April 2022, co-produced with Tara Finney Productions.

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  Why I Was Late

  Charlie Petch

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  With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch’s debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places.   
  Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, bringing a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it’s as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance. No subject—grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence—is off limits.  
  A poet so good at drag they had everyone convinced that they were a woman for the first forty years of their life, Petch has somehow brought the stage and its attendant thrills into the book. Better late than. And better.

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  Freshness of Poetic Perception

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Freshness of Poetic Perception by Paul Hamilton Hayne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 7, 2012.Paul Hamilton Hayne was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He left his law practice to persue his literary interests.  He became a literaey critic and magazine editor in Grovetown, Georgia, where he lived until his death. (Summary by David Lawrence)

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  Fifty Shades of Autumn - 50 of...

  Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe...

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  Nature continues to give. Riots of colour, of harvest are summoned.  It seems almost at will. Her palette is richer. There is a depth to everything, made deeper still by the sun beginning to hang lower in the sky, it’s light denser, glowing at dawn and at twilight, enriching everything it falls upon. 
   
  Our classic poets take stock. They have seen her bounty – this act of giving – many times before.  Yet, yet still it’s majesty almost refuses the salute of words.  Undaunted their verse is given, connections and revelations fall upon the page. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of Autumn. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Autumn - An Introduction 
  02 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  04 - Autumn by Thomas Hood 
  05 - Autumn by Kahlil Gibran 
  06 - September by George Arnold 
  07 - Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  08 - Written in September 1804 by Christian Milne 
  09 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  10 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron 
  11 - September by Janet Hamilton 
  12 - September by Carlos Wilcox 
  13 - Autumn Song by Dante Gabriel Rosetti 
  14 - Lines Written On the 6th September by Thomas Gent 
  15 - Late September by Amy Lowell 
  16 - Autumn Dawn by Charles Sorley 
  17 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton 
  18 - An Autumn Rain Scene by Thomas Hardy 
  19 - Autumn in Sussex by Radclyffe Hall 
  20 - Autumn In Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  21 - October 1915 by Dora Sigerson Shorter 
  22 - October by George Arnold 
  23 - Autumn by Anne Bradstreet 
  24 - October by John Payne 
  25 - October Musings 1866 by Janet Hamilton 
  26 - October by John Jay Chapman 
  27 - October by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  28 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell 
  29 - Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell 
  30 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb 
  31 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  32 - Give Me October's Meditative Haze by Alfred Austin 
  33 - An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - October on the Sheep Range by Arthur Chapman 
  35 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  36 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  37 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  38 - November by John Clare 
  39 - Autumn Overlooked My Knitting by Emily Dickinson 
  40 - A November Note by Alfred Austin 
  41 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell 
  42 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton 
  43 - In November by Archibald Lampman 
  44 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  45 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  46 - November by John Keble 
  47 - November by John Payne 
  48 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  49 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage 
  50 - Autumn Within by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  51 - Autumn - A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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