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Story of Writing January 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 119
The ACLU is formed and the birthday club includes Edgar Allan Poe and Patricia Highsmith - with a reading from Poe's classic "The Cask of Amontillado…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 118
It is the birthday of A. A. Milne - with a reading from one of his best known works, "The House at Pooh Corner."
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 117
On Anne Bronte's birthday, a look at her writing and the tension it caused her sister Charlotte - with a reading from Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell …
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 116
Miguel Cervantes' "Don Quixote" is published, Thomas Jefferson's "Statute for Religious Freedom" is adopted, the Chapultepec Peace Accords are signed…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 115
The King of France commissions the founding of New France - now Canada and the birthday club includes Moliere, Richard Martin, and the Reverend Marti…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 114
The U.S. and UK sign the Treaty of Paris - ending the Revolutionary War and it is the birthday of Emily Hahn and Maureen Dowd - with a reading from H…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 113
Emile Zola publishes "J'Accuse!" amid the Dreyfus Affair and it is the birthday of Shonda Rimes - with a reading from Zola's "J'Accuse!"
1 year, 6 months ago
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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago