The Writer's Allman Brother

John Calvin Nikola Tesla Mavis Staples Jessica Simpson Solomon Northrup Chiwetel Ejiofor Moo Deng "Mother's Day" by Bianca Stone

Tom Cruise Franz Kafka Montel Williams  "The Unsafe Exit Corridor of Your Voice" by John Coletti 

JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech Pearl S. Buck  The first Harry Potter book comes out Derek Jeter  Barry Gibb is knighted David Greenberger "Everything Spoken Between Songs in the Order that They Appear on All the Widely Released Live Albums by the Rolling Stones" by David Greenberger

Juneteenth Malika al-Fassi Joe Louis KO's Billy Conn Reparations debate in Congress "The Ghost Survivor" by Will Alexander

George H.W. Bush Jordan Peterson "My Brother, My Wound" by Natalie Diaz

The Full Sherman Spalding Gray Christy Brown Suze Orman "Message" by Allen Ginsberg

15 Women Fired for Doing the Turkey Trot Bob Hope First Mastectomy  JFK "Exclusively on Venus" by Trace Peterson 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Bernie Taupin Ted Kaczynski Sun Ra "the rockets wind, the blast of space" by Sun Ra

The Papal Bull Ad Extirpanda The National Women's Suffrage Association - New York Charter L. Frank Baum "Visions of Rotterdam" by Gregory Corso 

Pejk Malinovski Phillis Wheatley Roddy Doyle "Hello, I'm Erica Jong" by Kathy Acker

May Day Dick Swett Judy Collins "Emergency Warning" by Yrsa Daley-Ward 

Trojan Horse Shirley MacLaine Sue Grafton "Talk of People in Warning" by Joan Murray

Columbus signs contract to go on boat trip Thornton Wilder Nick Hornby "All Right By Me" by Steve Carey  

Joseph Pulitzer The Safety Pin Lincoln Reburial Paul Theroux Anne Lamott "I'd like to make five or six points about" by Hayley Stahl

Jane Goodall Harvard gives George Washington honorary law degree Pony Express begins Birth of TV Guide ACLU defends Ginsberg's "Howl" Panama Papers leaked "Your server has been identified as a spam source. Go away” by Christina Strong

Quentin Tarantino The Slap Mariah Carey Frank O'Hara "To Hell With It" by Frank O'Hara

AJ Jacobs Mary Roach Henrik Ibsen Mr. Rogers Ovid Gerard Malanga BF Skinner Sting  Lee "Scratch" Perry A 1980 letter to the Japanese government by Lee "Scratch" Perry, requesting that Paul McCartney be released from jail and cleared of marijuana charges. 

L. Ron Hubbard Neil Sedaka Dorothy Davenport "80's Child's Play" by Airea D. Matthews

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gabriel García Márquez Brendan Lorber "The Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence" by Brendan Lorber 

John Steinbeck Charlayne Hunter-Gault Ralph Nader Kenneth Koch "To 'Yes'" by Kenneth Koch

Rihanna Trevor Noah Sally Rooney "Lunar Shift" by Edwin Torres

Henry Rollins Faiz Ahmad Faiz Michael Franco "Ever Read a Book Called AWE?" by Dorothea Lasky

Bob Marley  Tom Brokaw Michael Pollan "I-35W North // Downtown Exits" by Danez Smith

Richard Brautigan Shirley Hazzard Jack Spicer "A Poem to the Reader of the Poem" by Jack Spicer

Louis Zukofsky Derek Walcott "Names for the Sun" by Caroline Knox