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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."
8 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…
8 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…
8 months 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…
8 months ago
Story of Writing November 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1118
"Local times" end at train stations across the U.S., British suffragists suffer "Black Friday" in London, South Africa ends apartheid, and it is the …
8 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1117
Nixon says, "I am not a crook" and the birthday club includes Peter Cook and Rebecca Walker - with a reading from Walker's essay, "Becoming the Third…
8 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1116
Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death and the birthday club includes China Achebe and Andrea Barrett - with a reading from "Letters of a Woman Home…
8 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1115
Union General William T. Sherman begins his march from Atlanta to Savanah, Georgia. It's called the March to the Sea because of Sam Byers. This episo…
8 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1114
Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is published in the U.S., Nellie Bly attempts to travel around the world in less than 80 days, Ruby Bridges desegregate…
8 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1113
Walt Disney releases "Fantasia," SCOTUS rules that Alabama's segregated buses violate the Constitution, Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai …
8 months, 1 week ago