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Story of Writing April 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 408
Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes wages and prices across the U.S., techies gather to create a new computer programming language and fortunately Grace Ho…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 407
The Teapot Dome scandal erupts, it's National Beer Day in the U.S., and this is the Internet's symbolic birthday. The birthday club includes Victoria…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 6, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 406
The birthday club includes Leonara Carrington, Ram Dash, Merle Haggard, and Homero Aridjis - with a reading from Carrington.
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 5, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 405
The Petition of Compromise, the American Birth Control League, and the birthday club includes Algernon Charles Swinburne, Barbara Holland, and Pharre…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 4, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 404
NATO is created and the birthday club includes Muddy Waters and Maya Angelou - with a reading from Angelou's "Letter to My Daughter."
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 3, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 403
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to workers during the Memphis sanitation strike, the Panama Papers are published, and happy birthdays to …
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 2, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 402
The birthday club includes Giacomo Casanova, Hans Christian Anderson, Emile Zola, and Camille Paglia - with a reading from "The Story of My Life," by…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing April 1, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 401
It is the beginning of what poet T. S. Eliot called "the cruelest month," and it is April Fool's Day. The birthday club includes Sergei Rachmaninoff …
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing March 31, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 331
Spain's "Edict of Expulsion," the U.S. Motion Picture Production Code goes into effect, the U.S. launches the Civilian Conservation Corps, and happy …
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing March 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 330
Evan Gershkovich should be free. More info, here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68679483
The U.S. buys Alaska, the Single Convention on Narco…
2 years, 1 month ago