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Story of Writing May 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 508
Victory in Europe Day, smallpox is declared eradicated, and happy birthdays to Robert Johnson and Naomi Klein - with a reading from Klein's "This Cha…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 507
Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiers in Vienna, Germany surrenders to end its involvement in the Second World War, and the birthday club in…
2 years ago
The Story of Writing May 6, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 506
The Works Progress Administration is created in the U.S., and the birthday club includes Orson Welles, Bob Seger, and Martha Nussbaum - with a readin…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 5, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 505
The birthday club includes Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Tammy Wynette, and Michael Palin - with a reading from Kierkegaard's "Either/Or."
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 4, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 504
The March 4th Movement in Beijing, the Freedom Riders get rolling, and Ohio National Guard troops shoot and kill four students at Kent State - with a…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 3, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 503
The U.S. Supreme Court rules against race-based "covenants" that prevented selling homes to people of color. Happy birthdays to Septima Poinsette Cla…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 2, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 502
The all-Japanese-American 552nd Artillery Group rescues forced marchers from a Nazi death camp. And it is the birthday of Dr. Benjamin Spock - with a…
2 years ago
Story of Writing May 1, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 501
The Kingdom of Great Britain comes to be, Carl Linnaeus publishes "Species Plantarum," the Memphis Massacre, workers' rallies and the Haymarket affai…
2 years ago
Story of Writing April 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 430
George Washington takes the oath for U.S. President, the U.S. acquires the Louisiana Purchase, and Niagara Falls becomes the United States' first sta…
2 years ago
Story of Writing April 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 429
Happy birthdays to Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Krouse Rosenthal - with a reading from Rosenthal's "Modern Love" essay in The New York Times, titled "You M…
2 years ago