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Story of Writing November 28, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1128
Steam-powered printing presses start rolling and the birthday club includes Berry Gordy and Rita Mae Brown - with a reading from "The Country of Poin…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 27, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1127
Statistics get their champion, Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" premiers, and the birthday club includes Charles A. Beard and Gail Sheehy -…
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 26, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1126
The U.S. gives Japan "the Hull note" and the birthday club includes Sarah Moore Grimke and Charles M. Schultz - with a reading from Grimke's book, "L…
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 25, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1125
Einstein presents his equations on general relativity, the "Hollywood 10" are blacklisted, the Reagan Administration is found guilty of selling weapo…
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 24, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1124
Anna Sewell publishes "Black Beauty" and the birthday club includes Frances Hodgson Burnett and Arundhati Roy - with a reading from Hodgson Burnett's…
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 23, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1123
John Milton publishes the pamphlet now regarded as the cornerstone of freedom of the press, the U.S. President prohibits doctors from prescribing bee…
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 22, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1122
The birthday club includes George Eliot, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodney Dangerfield, and Terry Gilliam - with a reading from Eliot's "Mill on the Floss."
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 21, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1121
Ole Romer determines the speed of light, Thomas Edison unveils his phonograph, Albert Einstein publishes his mass-energy equivalence, women get the r…
6 months ago
Story of Writing November 20, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1120
The second Treaty of Paris is signed, a whale destroys the ship "The Essex" inspiring the book "Moby-Dick," the UN adopts The Declaration of the Righ…
6 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1119
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most famous speeches in American history: the Gettysburg Address. We hear a bit of the story of th…
6 months, 1 week ago