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Hunkeanea: A Schimpflexikon
H.L. Mencken Superfluities Redux readers rarely leave comments on many of these posts, so I often leave it to Google Reader to pick up any mentions of what I write here. (True, there is the occasional...
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Books: The Collected Drama of H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken H.L. Mencken cut his satirical teeth on drama and theatre, as the excellent new anthology, The Collected Drama of H.L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, edited by S.T. Joshi and published by...
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De Civitate Dei
God. (Undated photo.) The Supreme Being has been taking a lot of lumps this week. Although CNN already has its own wrathful Old Testament dispenser of judgment and retribution, its religion editor Dan...
View ArticleFridays with Henry: Part 1
The theme of this week’s entries, it has emerged, has been my re-acquaintance with H.L. Mencken after many years. Somewhere in the deeper recesses of my personal archive there lies a copy of my “A Vast...
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On 29 June I presented a YouTube version of Samuel Beckett’s 1982 television play Nacht und Träume, and in apologizing for its poor quality I recommended that “some enterprising distributor [should]...
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