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Story of Writing April 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 410
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is published, Alcoholics Anonymous, or the “Big Book” is published, and the Good Friday Agreement is signed.…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing April 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 409
Lee surrenders to Grant, and the birthday club includes Charles Baudelaire, Paule Marshall, and Sam Harris - with a reading from Virginia Woolf's "Th…
2 years, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago