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Story of Writing February 21, 2025
Season 25 Episode 221
"Das Kapital" is published, The New Yorker publishes its first issue, and Erma Bombeck and Nina Simone were born on this day - with a reading from Bo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 20, 2025
Season 25 Episode 220
"The Barber of Seville" and "Swan Lake" premier, the Futurist Manifesto, and Hollywood allows U.S. war propagandists censor their movie scripts. Elle…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 219
The Treaty of Westminster is signed, the order allowing internment of Japanese Americans is signed, Betty Friedan publishes "The Feminine Mystique," …
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 218
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published, the Chicago Seven are found not guilty, and Wallace Stegner and Toni Morrison were born on this da…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 219
Isabelle Eberhardt, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Chaim Potok were born on this day - with a reading from Eberhardt's notebook.
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 216
The Anti-Discrimination Law of 1945 is passed - the first of its kind in the U.S., and it is the birthday of Otis Blackwell - with a reading from Eli…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 215
Christopher Columbus writes a wildly misinformed letter describing the places he'd seen in 1492 and 1493 and it is the birthday of Susan B. Anthony -…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 214
"The Pale Blue Dot," QWERTY, and Carl Bernstein's birthday - with a reading from Anne Bronte's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing February 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 213
ASCAP is formed, the fire bombing of Dresden begins, Australia apologizes to the Stolen Generations, and Eleanor Farjeon and Kate Roberts were born o…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing - the Meaning of Reading
An observation on what it means to be a reader
1 year, 5 months ago