A once in a century discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the Funeral Blues author's home and was put on trial. York-born Auden, a prominent member of a generation of 1930s writers that also included Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, described his unconventional arrangement with the man he affectionally called Hugerl.
Who'd have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery? But that's just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson's cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. When archivist Rosie Grant, who was was completing an internship at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., learned about this recipe on a gravestone back in 2021,