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Story of Writing August 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 818
Spanish gets grammar, U.S. women win the right to vote, Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" is published in the U.S., and anti-Apartheid activist Steph…
11 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing August 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 817
Sir Walter Raleigh tries to colonize Roanoke, the world's first commercial steamboat service begins on the Hudson River, George Orwell publishes his …
11 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing August 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 816
The birthday club includes T. E. Lawrence, Georgette Heyer, Wallace Thurman, William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., Charles Bukowski, and Diana Wynne Jones - …
11 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing August 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 815
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz premiers, Japan surrenders to end the Second World War and the birthday club includes Walter Scott, Oscar Peterson, Stanle…
11 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing August 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 814
The U.S. Social Security program is established and the birthday club includes Ernest Thompson Seton, Ernest Thayer, David Crosby, Steve Martin, Dani…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 813
French King Louis XVI is arrested for treason, it is "Barbed Wire Sunday," and it is the birthday of suffragist, abolitionist, and public speaker Luc…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 12, 2025
Season 25 Episode 812
Isaac Singer gets a patent for his sewing machine, Sue Hendrickson finds the best T. rex skeleton ever discovered, and the birthday club includes Mar…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 11, 2025
Season 25 Episode 811
Actress Hedy Lamarr gets a patent for tech used today, and the birthday club includes Angus Wilson and Alex Haley - with a reading from Haley's "Root…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 10, 2025
Season 25 Episode 810
The birthday club includes Era Bell Thompson, Clarence Fender, Dolores Alexander, Suzanne Collins, and Rachel Simmons. This episode includes a readin…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 9, 2025
Season 25 Episode 809
Henry David Thoreau publishes his book "Walden," Smokey Bear is introduced to the world, and the U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. This e…
11 months, 2 weeks ago