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Story of Writing January 12, 2025
Season 25 Episode 112
The birthday club includes Laura Adams Armer, Jack London, Haruki Murakami, and Issa Rae - with a reading from London's "Call of the Wild."
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 11, 2025
Season 25 Episode 111
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is created and the U.S. Surgeon General proclaims smoking tobacco was a public health risk. It is the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 10, 2025
Season 25 Episode 110
Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense," the paper that drove opioid prescription, over-use, and overdoses is published, and it is the birthday of Step…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 9, 2025
Season 25 Episode 109
The birthday club includes the Apple iPhone, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Krantz, and Joan Baez - with a reading from Beauvoir's "The Second Sex."
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 8, 2025
Season 25 Episode 108
The first U.S. State of the Union and the birthday club includes Gypsy Rose Lee and Graham Chapman - with a reading from Willa Cather's "O Pioneers."
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 7, 2025
Season 25 Episode 107
Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the birthday club includes Malcolm Wheele…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 6, 2025
Season 25 Episode 106
The birthday club includes Charles Sumner, Alan Watts, E. L. Doctorow, and Elizabeth Strout - with a reading from Watts on writing.
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 5, 2025
Season 25 Episode 105
Ford switches to an 8-hour workday, Samuel Becket's "Waiting for Godot" premiers, and the birthday club includes Stella Gibbons, Umberto Eco, and Hay…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 4, 2025
Season 25 Episode 104
Solomon Northup regains his freedom and it is the birthday of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin - with a reading from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Ci…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 3, 2025
Season 2025 Episode 103
The birthday club includes J. R. R. Tolkien, Anne Stevenson, and Stephen Stills - with a reading from Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
1 year, 4 months ago