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Monica Wasserman
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A scholar on the life of Sonia H. Davis, and also a writer suffering from adjectivitis 🌿
This is the last post for The Papers of Sonia H. Davis blog, and I take the time to reflect on the year and what’s next for the new year.

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Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025?
It’s that wonderful time of the year, in which I reflect on what has been accomplished in Sonia scholarship.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Reposted by Monica Wasserman
It's been a very long year on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein. My New Year's resolution was "do less on the blog, concentrate on the book," and I violated that by week three.

How many posts have there been? Let's find out.

1 like = 1 post from Deep Cuts in 2024

See if we can get to the end.
December 10, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Hi all,

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December 1, 2024 at 1:50 PM
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s Solstice Sale is going on now! When you use discount code: SOLSTICE2024 you get 20% off everything in their store, including Sonia’s autobiography, TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE 💜
Discount expires on December 1, midnight PST.

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Two Hearts That Beat As One - Collector's Edition
The remarkable life of Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis is explored in remarkable depth by editor Monica Wasserman in this elegant autobiography.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Nothing's really working today and I need a distraction. So who wants to read a letter from Robert E. Howard about H. P. Lovecraft?

1 like = 1 line from Robert E. Howard to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1930
November 21, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Addendum: Anna Gallup was the first curator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
"The museum's first curator, Anna Billings Gallup, hosted daily free lectures at 4 PM after school hours, underscoring the institution's commitment to accessibility." Source: writlarge.ctl.columbia.edu/view/458/
November 20, 2024 at 6:06 PM
For this month, I focus on Sonia’s time as a historical researcher during the Great Depression. Her research papers are presented in full for the first time.
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The Historical Researcher
In this unique post, I delve into Sonia’s time as a historical researcher, and share her actual research.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Reposting so I can read it later 👀
Bored. A game!

1 like = 1 fun line from one of Lovecraft's letters.

Sex! Censorship! Weird fiction! No racism.
November 18, 2024 at 8:36 PM
If you see this, post a vampire and pass it on.
November 17, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Don’t forget to write your compliments (or criticisms) over at Goodreads once you’ve finished reading the autobiography!
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Two Hearts That Beat As One: An Autobiography
Businesswoman, milliner, writer, publisher, and patrone…
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November 14, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Reposted by Monica Wasserman
"Christians everywhere, and in Germany in particular, ought to realize that any man seeking governmental power who is so small as to attack a race or creed is by his very prejudices unfit for the high office he would pretend to fill."
- Sonia H. Greene to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 12 Oct 1932
November 14, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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Bored. 1 like = 1 confession
November 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Since the autobiography has finally released, I’ve created an “Additional Resources” page for your reading experience!

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Additional Resources
Two Hearts That Beat as One: Revisions With the release of Two Hearts That Beat as One, I wanted to provide readers with the most up-to-date information on the book. You may download it for free. T…
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November 9, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE (2024), the autobiography of Sonia H. Davis - Lovecraft's wife - edited by Monica Wasserman.

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Two Hearts That Beat As One (2024) by Sonia H. Davis & Monica Wasserman (ed.)
In the small village of Itchno, which is on the outskirts of the town of Konotop, in the small Province of Chernigov, on the cold and wintry night of March 16, 1883, with the temperature several de…
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November 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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For this month, I focused on Sonia’s friendship with the Korean spy, Kilsoo K. Haan!

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The Milliner and the Spy
In this whopping 79 minute post, I focus on the incredible friendship of Sonia H. Davis and the Korean spy, Kilsoo K. Haan.
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August 14, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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Underappreciated deep cut: Asking and answering whether Black people read weird fiction in the 1930s.

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“The Mummy’s Jest” (1931) by Edward Podolsky
Did Black people read Weird Tales during its golden age (1923-1940)? At least some Black people in the United States wrote and read science fiction and weird fiction. W. E. B. DuBois published "The Co...
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August 13, 2024 at 11:51 AM
(Book 2 of 5)

I’m nowhere near where I’d hope to be with research and drafting the new book, but that’s all right! Progression over perfection.
August 8, 2024 at 10:36 PM
1am thought keeping me awake:

I forgot to thank H.P. Lovecraft in the “Acknowledgments” section of his wife’s autobiography. Because the one couldn’t have happened without the other! 😬
August 7, 2024 at 8:05 AM
This is really happening!! 😍
July 31, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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It's a mid-week special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein as we look at E. Hoffmann Price's curry recipe - the only curry that Lovecraft ever tasted.
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Deeper Cut: E. Hoffmann Price’s Curry Recipe
Skip Straight To Recipe The Story Behind The Curry The notice of the Algiers restaurant is charming; but alas, they spoil it all by babbling of “plain, home cooked food.” Alas, alas—when I crave dishe...
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July 10, 2024 at 10:34 AM
A brilliant post this week!
As a bonus, during the research for this piece I also discovered whether or not Lovecraft likes Worcestershire sauce.
It's a mid-week special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein as we look at E. Hoffmann Price's curry recipe - the only curry that Lovecraft ever tasted.
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July 11, 2024 at 12:20 AM
So, I did a thing! A small sample of my next Sonia project is going to be published in the July issue of The Fossil 😌 (A huge thank you to Dave Goudsward and Dave Tribby for the opportunity!!)

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July 4, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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For the afternoon crowd.
It's a midweek special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein as we look at CONANN (2023), released in the US as SHE IS CONANN, a surreal fantasy film from writer/director Bertrand Mandico, inspired by Robert E. Howard's character.

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Conann (2023)
AIso I just thought it was interesting to make the character of Conan female to turn it on its head.—[Interview] Delving into the Surrealist World of SHE IS CONANN with Director Bertrand Mandico  Cona...
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June 19, 2024 at 6:09 PM