You Can’t Make a Living Writing

What’s New in Old News, Ep. II.

Celebrity Writer, Theodore Roosevelt. Wikimedia/Library of Congress.

The bureaucrat’s contempt for the artistic vocation, the scorn for the followers of Calliope, received full articulation at New York’s Ellis Island on June 8, 1910. William Peterson, Danish Poet, was detained by immigration officials as he attempted to re-enter the United States.