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Story of Writing January 30, 2026
Season 26 Episode 130
It is The Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. How this came to be is a good story.
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing January 29, 2026
Season 26 Episode 129
The birthday club includes W. C. Fields, Muna Lee, and Edward Abbey - with a reading from Abbey's classic book "The Monkey Wrench Gang."
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing
Season 26 Episode 128
Jane Austen publishes her masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice," and it is David Lodge's birthday - with a reading from "Pride and Prejudice."
5 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
5 months, 3 weeks 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?"
5 months, 4 weeks 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…
5 months, 4 weeks 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."
6 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…
6 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…
6 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…
6 months ago