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Story of Writing May 6, 2025
Season 25 Episode 506
The Works Progress Administration is created and the birthday club includes Orson Welles, Bob Seger, and Martha Nussbaum - with a reading from Nussba…
1 year ago
Story of Writing May 5, 2025
Season 25 Episode 505
The birthday club includes Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Tammy Wynette, and Michael Palin - with a reading from Kierkegaard's "Either / Or."
1 year ago
Story of Writing May 4, 2025
Season 25 Episode 504
The May Fourth Movement begins in Beijing, Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" is awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Freedom Riders set out on …
1 year ago
Story of Writing May 3, 2025
Season 25 Episode 503
SCOTUS rules against neighborhood covenants that restrict home sales to people of color and Septima Poinsette Clark and Pete Seeger were born on this…
1 year ago
Story of Writing May 2, 2025
Season 25 Episode 502
Japanese-American soldiers rescue hundreds of European Jews during a forced march from the Nazi's Dachau death camp. Dr. Benjamin Spock and Charlotte…
1 year ago
Story of Writing May 1, 2025
Season 25 Episode 501
Carl Linnaeus begins using the two, Latin names to classify every living thing, the Memphis Massacre begins, and the workers' rallies marking "The Gr…
1 year ago
Story of Writing April 30, 2025
Season 25 Episode 430
The first state park is created in the U.S. and the birthday club includes John Crowe Ransom, Annie Dillard, and Jane Campion - with a reading from D…
1 year ago
Story of Writing April 29, 2025
Season 25 Episode 429
Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Krouse Rosenthal were born on this day. We look at Rosenthal's work and share a reading from her New York Time's essay "You Ma…
1 year ago
Story of Writing April 28, 2025
Season 25 Episode 428
Muhammad Ali refuses to be drafted into the Vietnam War and Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett were born on this day. This episode includes a reading fro…
1 year, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 27, 2025
Season 25 Episode 427
On her birthday, we look at the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft - including a reading from her landmark work "A Vindication of the Rights of …
1 year, 1 month ago