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Story of Writing March 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 319
England's House of Commons abolishes the House of Lords, and happy birthdays to Minna Canth, Philip Roth, and Clara Breed - with a reading from Breed…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 318
The New York 'Conspiracy' of 1741, and the birthday club includes Wilfred Owen, Unita Blackwell, Frances Cress Welsing - and a reading of Wilfred Owe…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 317
Happy birthdays to Bayard Rustin and Nat "King" Cole - and a reading from "The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 316
Today's birthday club includes Ethel Anderson, Eric P. Kelley, Ursula Goodenough, and Jorge Ramos - and a reading from "The Christmas Nightingale," w…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 315
The Ides of March, the Royal Declaration of Indulgences, the Presidential proclamation that "We shall overcome," and happy birthdays to Lightin' Hopk…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 314
Eli Whitney gets the patent for the cotton gin, Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" premiers, U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt creates Pelican Island Nat…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 313
The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves, and the birthday club includes Janet Flanner, L. Ron Hubbard, Edward O'Hare, and Al Jaffee - and a reading …
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 312
Quite the birthday club: Jack Kerouac, Harry Harrison, Virginia Hamilton, James Taylor, and Dave Eggers - with a reading from "The Song of the Lark,"…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 311
Verdi's "Rigoletto" premiers in Venice, and happy birthdays to Wanda Gag, Ralph Abernathy, Bobby McFerrin, Jerry Zucker, and Douglas Adams - with a r…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 310
The state execution of Jean Calas moves Voltaire to write "Treatise on Tolerance," the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo takes a big step toward ratificati…
2 years, 2 months ago