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Podcast: A Literary Cornucopia
Episode: Episode 137: Katharine Brush: "Birthday Party"
Description: "It became obvious that this was special occasion and that she had planned a surprise." "Birthday party" is a brief, observational story about a married couple in a restaurant where the wife attempts a public birthday surprise for her husband. Katharine Brush's short stories have been compared, in their lack of sentiment and their sharpness, with those of F. Scott Fitzgerald, her more famous contemporary.