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Langston Hughes wrote this poem in response to seeing the Waldorf-Astoria open during the depression.  People were sleeping on the street. Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria by Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new Waldorf-Astoria: "All the luxuries of private home. . . ." Now, won't that be charming when the last flop-house has turned you down this winter? Furthermore: "It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted in the hotel world. . . ." It cost twenty-eight million dollars. The fa- mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting. Alexandre Gastaud is chef. It will be a distinguished background for society. So when you've no place else to go, homeless and hungry ones, choose the Waldorf as a background for your rags-- (Or do you still consider the subway after midnight good enough?) ROOMERS Take a room at the new Waldorf, you down-and-ou...

I was supposed to put this on another page, but it is not working out the way I planned.  It is moving to the front page of this blog. "Suicide's Note" by Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. I love, love, love, Langston Hughes.  I miss him too, although I don't see how a person can miss someone they've never met, and yet it's true.  I slept with him too you know.  Earlier this year I spilled pop on  The Best of Simple,  put the book under my mattress to flatten the warp, and forgot about it for six months.  So in a manner of speaking we have been in the bed together.  Wide Awake Jake won't like this. So let's look at Hughes' brief, brilliant, and pithy poem.  How should the title be interpreted?  My first thought was the poem was written by a person who killed him or herself and left behind a note as an explanation.  Suicide is usually a consequence of depression and depression is exhausti...

http://www.nationalshortstoryweek.org.uk/ Of course I've got to put my favorites out here. And who reads anthologies?  Judaye does because they work perfectly with her short attention span. The New Gothic: A Collection Of Contemporary Gothic Fiction   Edited by Bradford Morrow and Patrick McGrath Roman Fever And Other Short Stories   Edith Wharton The Complete Stories   Zora Neale Hurston The Lottery And Other Stories   Shirley Jackson. You Are Not A Stranger Here   Adam Haslett Classic Irish Short Stories   Selected and Introduced by Frank O'Connor In Love And In Trouble   Alice Walker The Best Of The South   Selected and Introduced by Anne Tyler Short Science Fiction Tales   Edited by Issac Asimov and Groff Conklin The Best Short Stories By Black Writers 1899-1967   Edited and Introduced by Langston Hughes Witches Brew   Edited by Yvonne Jacobs You know what?  I have a few more favorites, but I don't have ...