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Story of Writing September 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 916
Signing of the Montreal Protocol and the birthday club includes Francis Parkman, Miriam Benjamin, and H. A. Rey - with a reading from Parkman's "The …
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 915
The HMS Beagle - with Charles Darwin aboard - lands on the Galápagos Islands and the 16th St. Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. Happy birthday…
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 914
Handel's Messiah is performed for the first time, the birthday club includes William H. Armstrong, Kate Millett, Bernard MacLaverty, and Bonnie Jo Ca…
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 913
Henry Hudson explores the river named after him in what is now New York, the battle of Quebec ends after three months of siege and 45 minutes of batt…
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 12, 2024
Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning, JFK delivers his speech, "We Choose to Go to the Moon," and the birthday club includes H. L. Mencken, …
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 911
Some of the best writing on the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Washington Post piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/sept-11-…
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 910
John Smith is named council president of Jamestown colony, Elias Howe is granted a patent for his sewing machine, and the birthday club includes Hann…
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 909
The U.S. Congress agrees to the compromise of 1850 and it is the birthday of Leo Tolstoy - with a reading from his landmark work "War and Peace."
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 908
Michelangelo's sculpture David was unveiled in Florence, the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is published, and a reading from Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Story of Writing September 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 907
Union General William T. Sherman orders the evacuation of Atlanta, and the birthday club includes C. J. Dennis, Elinor Wylie, Edith Sitwell, Dorothy …
1 year, 8 months ago