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Story of Writing October 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1019
American colonists, helped by the French, won their independence from the British, "Black Monday," and the birthday club includes Miguel Ángel Asturi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1018
Herman Melville's "The Whale" is first published and Phyllis Wheatley is freed. The birthday club includes Isabel Briggs Meyers, Martha Burk, Ntozake…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1017
Marconi begins the service sending wireless signals across the North Atlantic and the birthday club includes Elinor Glyn, Jerry Siegel, Arthur Miller…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1016
The Cardiff Giant is "discovered," and becomes the quintessential story of our time.
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1015
The switch between the Julian and Gregorian calendars begins and happy birthdays to P. G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Italo Calvino, and Eugene Patterson …
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1014
George Eastman gets the U.S. patent for photographic strip film, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Aung San Suu Kyi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1013
Happy birthday to Mary Kingsley, Arna Bontemps, and Paul Simon - with a reading from Bontemps' "A Black Man Talks of Reaping."
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1012
The Salem Witch Trials end, the first U.S. asylum opens, Desmond Doss becomes the only conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor, and…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1011
In San Francisco, California, Japanese-American students were told they could no longer attend public schools and the AIDS Quilt was first displayed …
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1010
Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the U.S. The birthday club includes Louise Mack, Harold Pinter, Lily Tuck, and John Prine - with a reading f…
1 year, 9 months ago