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Story of Writing May 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 520
Shakespeare's sonnets are published, and the birthday club includes Honore de Balzac and John Stuart Mill. This episode includes a reading of Shakesp…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 519
Centigrade flips Celsius, King George II issues the land grant that became Ohio, and Parks Canada and Sierra Gorda are established. The birthday club…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 518
The first statute in the American colonies that banned slavery, and the birthday club includes Omar Khayyam, Frank Capra, and Tina Fey - with a readi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 517
The Buttonwood Agreement, Brown v. Board of Education, the World Health Organization finds homosexuality is not an illness, but a natural variation o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 516
The Sedition Act of 1918, the first Academy Awards ceremony, and the U.S. Surgeon General warns the addictive properties of nicotine are equal to her…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 515
Robespierre proposes the self-denying ordinance, Standard Oil is declared a monopoly and broken up. The birthday club includes L. Frank Baum, Katheri…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 514
The birthday club includes George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Christine Brennan, Raphael Saadiq, and Mark Zuckerberg - all with a reading from "There Is …
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 513
The UK's Queen Victoria proclaims that nation's neutrality in the U.S. Civil War and the Philadelphia police bomb MOVE - with a reading from UK Prime…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 512
The birthday club includes Albert Murray, Burt Bacharach, and George Carlin - with a reading from e. e. cummings' "somewhere i have never travelled, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing May 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 511
The first book (that we know of) is published and happy birthdays to Harriet Quimby, Irving Berlin, and Rose Auslander - with a reading from Auslande…
2 years, 2 months ago