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Story of Writing January 27, 2026
Season 26 Episode 127
Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence, the Paris Peace Accords end armed combat in Vietnam, the U.S. National Recording Preservation Board announce…
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 26, 2026
Season 26 Episode 126
The birthday club includes Angela Davis and Jonathan Carroll - with a reading from Davis' book "Are Prisons Obsolete?"
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 25, 2026
Season 26 Episode 125
Scottish poet Robert Burns, the playwright W. Somerset Maugham, and the insightful writer Virginia Woolf were born on this day - and we hear a readin…
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 24, 2026
Season 26 Episode 124
Born on this day: Signe Rink and Edith Wharton - with a reading from Wharton's "The Age of Innocence."
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 23, 2026
Season 26 Episode 123
Francois Rabelais publishes the book that became central to Enlightenment thinking, Blaise Pascal writes the first of his "Provincial Letters," and t…
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 22, 2026
Season 26 Episode 122
Today marks the anniversaries of the births of the Romantic-era poet Lord Byron and the pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard. This episode also inclu…
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 21, 2026
Season 26 Episode 121
The birthday club includes Noe Ito and Elaine Showalter - with a reading from the book co-written by John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor Mil…
4 months ago
Story of Writing January 20, 2026
Season 26 Episode 120
It is the anniversary of the births of George Burns, David Lynch, and Nancy Kress - with a reading from Kress's "Brain Rose."
4 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing January 19, 2026
Season 26 Episode 119
It is the anniversary of the births of Edgar Allan Poe and Patricia Highsmith as well as the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union. This epi…
4 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing January 18, 2026
Season 26 Episode 118
Japan issues its 21 Demands of China and the birthday club includes Demaris Cudworth, Lady Masham and Montesquieu - with a reading from Montesquieu's…
4 months, 1 week ago