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Hello, it's kind of a Father's Day special here on the history of literature.

We hear from an old friend and fellow dad who has spun the threads of his family life into

literary gold.

And we hear a trio of poets who write about fathers and fathering and I will share my fatherhood and my

Proustian Madeline moment that's coming up today on the history of literature.

Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson, your host. I'm

excited to be here today. Thank you for stopping by and joining me. I'll be talking to my friend Bill soon, Bill Evel, who I knew,

whom I knew, I guess I should say, back in my New York days.

Shout out to Joe and Josh and Joey and all the other dads who were in our playground

group. Notice the one I didn't say, Michael, and that's because my kid loved Michael more than he loved me and it drove me crazy.

I'd work all day and I'd fight my way to the playground. I'd get there and my kid would

oh yeah, dance here, yeah whatever and then Michael would show up and he'd say

Michael's here, Michael, Michael.

Well, it took a village.

And there was nothing better than those dads, even Michael.

Michael included, nothing better than those dads in helping to raise my little

villager unless it was the moms who were at least as amazing as the dads

probably more so.

And they had their day already.

Last month, so let's just set that aside.

Bill was great.

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