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 September, October, and November of 1989 subscribers to The Saturday Evening Post found Chesterton's story "The Quick One" serialized in three installments. "The Quick One" was one of the last of the Father Brown mysteries, having originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in November of 1933. The editors of the Post made no accompanying explanation of who Chesterton was or why they had decided to reprint this story in 1989.