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Season 2024 Episode 1232
I can't tell you how many times I've answered calls and people asked if I was real or a machine. So, I just wanted to clarify that I'm real. Really.
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1213
The atrocities of Nanjing begin and the birthday club includes Jean Gerson and Taylor Swift - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Persuasion."
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1212
The Paris Agreement on climate change and happy birthday to Gustave Flaubert - with a reading from his "Madame Bovary."
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1211
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S., and happy birthdays to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Jim Harrison - with a reading from Solzhenitsyn's "The G…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1210
Encyclopedia Brittanica publishes its first edition and the birthday club includes William Lloyd Garrison, Emily Dickinson, and Melvil Dewey - with a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1209
Genocide is named a crime by the U.N. and happy birthday to Dalton Trumbo - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1208
A woman performs on stage - for the first time - in England, and happy birthdays to John Banville and Mary Gordon - with a reading from Edith Wharton…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1207
The bombing of Pear Harbor, and happy birthdays to Willa Cather and Harry Chapin - with a reading from Cather's "My Antonia."
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 6, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1206
Georgia becomes the last state needed to ratify the 13th Amendment - ending slavery in the US, President Theodore Roosevelt states his corollary to t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Story of Writing December 6, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1206
Georgia becomes the last state needed to ratify the 13th Amendment - ending slavery in the US, President Theodore Roosevelt states his corollary to t…
1 year, 5 months ago