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Story of Writing February 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 218
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published, the Chicago Seven are acquitted, and the birthday club includes Wallace Stegner and Toni Morrison - wi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 217
Happy birthdays to Isabelle Eberhardt, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Chaim Potok - with a reading from one of Eberhardt's notebook.
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 216
The first anti-discrimination law in the U.S. is passed and happy birthday to Otis Blackwell - with a reading from "Plum Bun," by Jessie Redmon Fause…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 215
Christopher Columbus, while sailing on the ship "Nina," wrote a letter describing some of the things he saw on his 1492 voyage of discovery, and happ…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 214
Voyager 1 snaps the picture titled "The Pale Blue Dot," and the birthday club includes Christopher Latham Sholes and Carl Bernstein - with a reading …
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 213
ASCAP takes shape, the Dresden Fire Bombing begins, Australia apologizes for its mistreatment of Aboriginal populations, and the birthday club includ…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 212
Quite the birthday club: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Judy Blume - with a reading from Lincoln's second inaugural address.
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 211
The first accusation of Gerrymandering, the Flint "Sit Down" Strike, the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, and happy birthdays to Joy Williams and Mo Wille…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 210
Happy birthdays to William Allen White and Boris Pasternak - with a reading from Pasternak's classic "Doctor Zhivago."
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing February 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 209
Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera, “Falstaff,” premiers at La Scala in Milan, and the birthday club includes Thomas Paine, Carole King, and Alice Walker - …
2 years, 3 months ago