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Story of Writing October 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1019
The American colonists win their independence from the British, "Black Monday" upends the U.S. financial markets, and the birthday club includes Migu…
7 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1018
Herman Melville publishes "The Whale" - better known as "Moby Dick" - in London, Phyllis Wheatley is granted her freedom, and the birthday club inclu…
7 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1017
Marconi goes wireless across the Atlantic and the birthday club includes Elinor Glyn, Jerry Siegel, Arthur Miller, George Mackay Brown, Ariel Levy, a…
7 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1016
Charlotte Bronte publishes "Jane Eyre," and the Cardiff Giant is "discovered."
7 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1015
The Julian calendar gives way to the Gregorian calendar and the birthday club includes P. G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Italo Calvino, and Eugene Patters…
7 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1014
George Eastman gets the U.S. patent for "paper strip" photographic film, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, …
7 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1013
The birthday club includes Mary Kingsley, Arna Bontemps, and Paul Simon - with a reading from Bontemps' "A Black Man Talks of Reaping."
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 12, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1012
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay ends the Salem Witch Trials, the first asylum for the mentally ill opens in the U.S., Desmond Doss becomes the only…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 11, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1011
The San Francisco school board tells Japanese students they can no longer attend public schools, the AIDS quilt is first displayed, and the birthday …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 10, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1010
U.S. VP Spiro Agnew resigns and the birthday club includes: Louise Mack, Harold Pinter, Lily Tuck, and John Prine - with a reading from Mack's "A Wom…
7 months, 2 weeks ago