Saturday, November 29, 2025

Born on this day – Louisa May Alcott:


Louisa May Alcott


Writer

November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888


Credits:

Including titles with Madeleine B. Stern and Susan Beth Pfeffer:

Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868); Good Wives (1869); Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871); Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (1886); Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872); Shawl-Straps (1872); Cupid and Chow Chow (1873); My Girls (1877); Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. (1879); An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1882); Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875); Rose in Bloom (1876); The Inheritance (1849); Moods (1864); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869); Work (1873); A Modern Mephistopheles (1877); Under the Lilacs (1878); Jack & Jill (1880); Proverb Stories (1882); Lulu's Library (1886); A Long Fatal Love Chase (1995); Flower Fables (1854); A Modern Cinderella (1860); On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864); A Marble Woman (1865); Behind a Mask (1867); Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (1882); Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884); A Garland for Girls (1887); A Whisper in the Dark (1889); The Louisa Alcott Reader (1908); Glimpses of Louisa (1968); Short Stories (1968); Plots and Counterplots (1976); An Intimate Anthology (1980); Selected Fiction (1980); Hidden Louisa May Alcott (1984); Works of Louisa May Alcott (1986); A Double Life (1988); Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories (1992); The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott (1993); Louisa May Alcott Unmasked (1995); Modern Magic (1995); The Quiet Little Woman (1999); The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (2000); The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 (2000); Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury (2002); The Brownie and the Princess & Other Stories (2004); Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island (2007); The Candy Country and How They Ran Away (2008); Morning-Glories (2009); The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott (2012); Sisters (2017); A Vintage Christmas (2018); May Flowers (2019); A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (2019); Transcendental Wild Oats (1873); Marjorie's Three Gifts (1899); Diana & Persis (1978); Kate's Choice (2001); Debby's Debut (2010); Love and Self Love (2010); Pauline's Passion and Punishment (1862); The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme's Temptation (1867); Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse (1869); Poppies and Wheat (1900); Trudel's Siege (1976); Scarlet Stockings (2004); The Baron's Gloves (2005); Silver Pitchers and Independence (2007); Little Button Rose (2008); The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (2010); The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts (2013); The Death of John (2013); The Cross on the Old Church Tower (2013); On Picket Duty (2014); Doctor Dorn's Revenge (2015); Effie's Christmas Dream (2015); The Dolls' Journey (2015); The Blind Lark (2016); Comic Tragedies (2016); How They Ran Away (2016); Sophie's Secret (2016); Lilybell and Thistledown (2016); The Brownie and the Princess (2017); Kitty's Class Day (2018); Pansies and Water-Lilies (2018); The Mysterious Key (2019); Lost in a Pyramid (2019); Civil War Hospital Sketches (1863); Hospital Sketches (1863); Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866); Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889); The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987); The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott (1989); The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 (1993); Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery (1997); The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001); Louisa May Alcott's Civil War (2006); Meg's Story (1997); Jo's Story (1997); Beth's Story (1997); Amy's Story (1997); Meg Makes a Friend (1998); Jo Makes a Friend (1998); Beth Makes a Friend (1998); Amy Makes a Friend (1998); Christmas Dreams (1998); A Gift for Jo (1999); A Gift for Meg (1999); A Gift for Amy (1999); Birthday Wishes (1999); Ghostly Tales (2000); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); Women Who Wrote (2020); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023).

Movie and television adaptations:

Louisa's Legacy: Little Women and Orchard House (2020); Little Women (2019); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2018); I riassuntini (2018); Little Women (2018); Little Women (2017); A Frozen Christmas (2016); The Inheritance (2013); The March Sisters at Christmas (2012); An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008); Great Performances (2001); Little Men (1998-1999); Little Men (1998); The Inheritance (1997); Little Women (1994); Wakakusa monogatari nan to Jô sensei (1993); Quattro piccole donne (1989); Ai no wakakusa monogatari (1987); No hay por qué llorar (1985); Wakakusa monogatari yori wakakusa no yonshimai (1981); Little Women (1980); Little Women (1979); Little Women (1978); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1976); NBC Special Treat (1975); Adorables mujercitas (1974); Mujercitas (1973); Little Women (1970); NBC Children's Theatre (1969); Novela (1964–1967); Dai lu nian hua (1967); Rosella (1964); Mujercitas (1963); Mujercitas (1962); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960–1961); La Hora Fate (1960); Jo's Boys (1959); Mulherzinhas (1959); Little Women (1958); Good Wives (1958); Little Women (1958); Primavera (1958); Xiao fu ren (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Matinee Theatre (1956); Fu Lan jie jie (1956); A Girl Called Jo (1956); Piccole donne (1955); Encounter (1955); Music and Macaroni (1955); Little Women (1950–1951); Studio One (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Little Women (1949); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Little Women (1946); Little Men (1940); Little Women (1939); Little Men (1934); Little Women (1933); Little Women (1918); Little Women (1917).

Recommended reading – An Introduction to the Detective Story (1987):


An Introduction to the Detective Story

By Leroy Lad Panek.

Published by Popular Press 1.
First edition.
Published 1987.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0879723777
ISBN-13: 978-0879723774

Description:

This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally broken ground in terms of aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:


Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Friday, November 28, 2025

Go Pens!


November 28, 2025

Pittsburgh Penguins: 4

Columbus Blue Jackets: 3

YEAH!

GO PENS!


On this day in television history - Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021):


Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Season 1. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: The Doll Hunt.
Released November 28, 2021.
Developed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.
Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.
Written by Brandon Auman, Margaret Dunlap, Kenji Kamiyama, Eugene Son, Alex de Campi.
Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Opening theme: Feel You Now by Alessia Cara.
Music by Michael Hodges, Gerald Trottman.
Cast: Jessica Henwick, Will Yun Lee, Wes Bentley, Samira Wiley, Gregg Henry, Stephen Root, Peyton List, Henry Czerny, Charlet Takahashi Chung, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Jason Spisak, Roger Craig Smith, Shinshû Fuji, Takako Honda, Takehito Koyasu, Tony Nakajima, Akio Nojima, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Arisa Shida, Kazuki Yao, Hôchû Ôtsuka.

On this day in music history - In The Wake, by Ann Sweeten (2011):


In The Wake

Album by Ann Sweeten,
released November 28, 2011.

Track list:

Was It Yesterday?; Falling Leaves; Metamorphosis; Love Remembered; A Chance for Goodbye; In the Wake; On Wings of Light; Out of Embers; The Abyss; October Sky; Now, and Again.

On this day in television history - Pushing Daisies (2007):


Pushing Daisies

Season 1. Episode 8.
Episode entitled: Bitter Sweets.
Released November 28, 2007.
Directed by Allan Kroeker.
Written by Abby Gewanter.
Series created by Bryan Fuller.
Music by Jim Dooley.
Narrated by Jim Dale.


Cast:

Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Molly Shannon, Field Cate, Michael Cornacchia, Raúl Esparza, Steve Hytner, Mike White, Tammy Dahlstrom, Tara Donato, Joe Don Harris, Wesley Harris, Nicholas Khayyat, Abbe Meryl Feder, Leyna Nguyen, Sy Richardson, Steven A. Ross, Reginald Veneziano.