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LIT BITS V2 #126

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Excerpted-from: LITERARY CALENDAR V2 #126

LITERARY CALENDAR        Saturday, May 8 1999        Volume 02 : Number 126

Today is Saturday, 8 May 1999; on this day,

104 years ago (1895),

	Edmund Wilson--journalist, critic, poet, novelist--is born in Red
   Bank, N.J. e. e. cummings, will later characterize the author of _Memoirs
   of Hecate County_ and _To the Finland Station_ as "the man in the iron
   necktie."

100 years ago (1899),

	With police present to protect the players, the Irish Literary
   Theatre is inaugurated in Dublin with W. B. Yeats's _The Countess
   Cathleen_ (written 1889-92).

69 years ago (1930),

	One of the earliest of the Beat Poets, Gary Snyder is born in San
   Francisco, California.

61 years ago (1938),

	Thomas Pynchon--author of _V_ and _The Crying of Lot 49_--is born
   in Glen Cove, New York.
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