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Story of Writing January 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 129
"The Raven" is published, Karl Benz patents the gas-powered car, Queen Liliʻuokalani begins leading Hawaii, and the birthday club includes Anton Chek…
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing January 28, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 128
"Pride and Prejudice" is published - with a reading from Jane Austen's master piece.
2 years, 3 months ago
Story of Writing January 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 127
The Outer Space Treaty, the Paris Peace Accords, the U.S. National Recording Registry, and happy birthdays to Lewis Carroll and Peter Laird - with a …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 26, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 126
Rocky Mountain National Park is created, and happy birthdays to Angela Davis and Jonathan Carroll - with a reading from Virginia Woolf's "A Room of O…
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 125
Happy Burns night! Mendelsohn's "Wedding March" hits the big time, and the birthday club includes Robert Burns, of course, W. Somerset Maugham, and V…
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 124
Gold is discovered in California, canned beer is sold for the first time in the U.S., and happy birthday to Edith Wharton - with a reading from Mark …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 123
The first female medical doctor in the U.S., Wham-O buys the rights to a flying toy disc, the U.S. ratifies the 24th Amendment to the Constitution - …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 122
The U.S. Supreme Court issues its decision in "Roe v. Wade," Apple Inc. introduces the Macintosh home computer, and happy birthday to Lord Byron - wi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 21, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 121
The first novel published in the U.S. is released and the birthday club includes Ito Noe and Elaine Showalter. Today's reading is from "The House of …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 120
Happy birthday to Huddie Ledbetter and Fareed Zakaria - with a reading from "Democracy and Social Ethics," by Jane Addams.
2 years, 4 months ago