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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 2, 2025
Season 2025 Episode 102
The Palmer Raids sweep up thousands of foreign-born U.S. citizens and it is the birthday of Robert Marshall - with a reading from the 1964 Wilderness…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing January 1, 2025
Season 2025 Episode 101
The U.S. bans importation of enslaved people and - nearly 60 years later - enacts the Emancipation Proclamation. The birthday club includes Maria Edg…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing December 31, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1231
Thomas Edison unveils his incandescent light and the birthday club includes Simon Wiesenthal and John Denver - with a reading from "The Liberty Of Ma…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing December 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1230
The birthday club includes Rudyard Kipling, Bo Diddley, Patti Smith, and Douglas Coupland - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility."
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing December 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1229
Vaclav Havel is elected President of Czechoslovakia and the language Akkala Sami is considered extinct. The birthday club includes Rick Danko, Marian…
1 year, 7 months ago