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Susie Reading Thurber: The Night Before Christmas

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Susie Bright
Dec 24, 2024
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The legendary James Thurber wrote the parody, "A Visit from Saint Nicholas in the Ernest Hemingway Manner" for the Christmas Eve edition of The New Yorker in 1927.

The poem's inventor, Clement C. Moore, will never be the same.

It is my great pleasure to read it aloud!

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