| | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00

Tuesday's Poem: "Memorial Day" by Steve Kowit from The First Noble Truth. Tuesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the British author Samuel Richardson, born in 1689 in Mackworth, England. Richardson spent seven years as the apprentice in a printer's shop, where he was nicknamed "Serious" and "Gravity." His first publication was a manual to fellow apprentices urging them to be serious and stay away from evils like the theater and taverns. Then he wrote three novels encouraging moral reform, and all three were epistolary novels -- novels told only in letters. The public loved this form,...

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