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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather deliver this years Christmas Litcast, overthinking Dylan Thomas&#8217;s &#8220;A Child&#8217;s Christmas in Wales.&#8221; They discuss the work&#8217;s distinctive form, comparing it to slam poetry, and delve into the specifics of its scenes, focused on memory, nostalgia, aging, so-called childhood &#8220;innocence,&#8221; and how literature produces truth.


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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<li><a href="https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701261h.html">&#8220;A Child&#8217;s Christmas in Wales&#8221;</a> by Dylan Thomas
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<li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/harperaudiopresents/childschristmasinwales">Read by the author</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child%27s_Christmas_in_Wales">Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1927/12/24/a-visit-from-saint-nicholas-in-the-ernest-hemingway-manner">&#8220;A Visit from Saint Nicholas (in the Ernest Hemingway Manner)&#8221;</a> by James Thurber</li>
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