Greg Olear
Writer at PREVAIL
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Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast & #DirtyRubles author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of "The Five 8," enjoyer of Friday Manhattans.
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4 days ago |
gregolear.substack.com | Greg Olear
Dear Reader,Where The Sidewalk Ends was published on November 20, 1974—exactly one week after my second birthday (and exactly five weeks before my third Christmas). Thus did Shel Silverstein’s children’s book enter the zeitgeist just as my own inchoate consciousness was snapping into focus.
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6 days ago |
gregolear.substack.com | Greg Olear
Good morning.
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1 week ago |
gregolear.substack.com | Greg Olear
On the morning of June 18, 1982, a body was found hanging from the scaffolding beneath the Blackfriars Bridge that spans the Thames. A suicide, the police report said. But was it? The man was wearing two watches (strange), and (even stranger) two pairs of underwear. On his body, police found $15,000 in various currencies (strange) and twelve pounds of bricks (what the—?). And there was no note. Or, perhaps, the note was stowed away in the briefcase he carried around with him everywhere he went.
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1 week ago |
gregolear.substack.com | Greg Olear
Akhmat Khan bin Küchük, a descendent of Genghis, was the Khan of the Great Horde in the fifteenth century. His Khanate made its capital at Sarai, a city on the lower Volga. At the Grand Stand at the Ugra River, his men retreated rather than fight the army of Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, who had audaciously withheld his tribute to the Horde. Akhmat’s defeat at Ugra ended, once and for all, the “Tatar yoke” over Russia.
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1 week ago |
gregolear.substack.com | Greg Olear
Good morning! Here is today’s ramble:And here is the transcript, edited for clarity:Good morning. As you’re watching this, it’s Friday morning, May 2nd. As I’m recording this, it is 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1st: May Day, which is what I think everybody here in the United States is saying to our friends in Europe and Canada: “M’aidez!”In French, it means “Help me.” We need all the help we can get. That’s for sure.
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