GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

Chesterton Short(s)

In his 1950 autobiography, Newman Flower recalls his early days at Storyteller magazine and how people harried the staff with inquiries about the new Father Brown detective series. A number of them professed to have met the detective-priest, one even asserting that he had actually entertained him in his house for a night. [Just As It Happened, New York: Morrow, 1950, p. 30]