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Story of Writing October 29, 2025
Season 25
Episode 1029
Published 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Description
The opera "Don Giovanni" premiers in Prague, the International Red Cross is voted into existence, and it is "Black Tuesday" - the stock market crash at the beginning of the Great Depression. It is the birthday of The New Yorker's editor David Remnick and this episode includes a reading from Jane Austen's "Emma."