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Story of Writing January 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 119
Goethe's play "Faust: A Tragedy" (part 1) premieres, the ACLU is founded, and happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe - with a reading from one of Poe's le…
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 118
Happy birthday to Alan Alexander Milne - with a reading from one of his best known works "The House at Pooh Corner."
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 117
Happy birthday to Anne Bronte - with a reading from her second novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 116
Miguel Cervantes publishes "Don Quixote," Virginia adopts the Statute of Religious Freedom as written by Thomas Jefferson, Ernest Shackleton reaches …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 115
Happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Jean-Francois Roberval is commissioned to colonize New France. The Pemberton Medicine Company is incorporated.…
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 114
The U.S. Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, which formalized peace with England and independence for the United States. Happy birthday to Emily H…
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 113
Emile Zola publishes "J'accuse!" and exposes the French military's deceit during the Dreyfus Affair. Happy birthday to Shonda Rhimes - and a reading …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 112
The birthday club includes Laura Adams Armer, Jack London, Haruki Murakami, and Issa Rae - and a reading from London's "Call of the Wild."
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 111
Louis B. Mayer announces the creation of the American Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the U.S. Surgeon General publishes the report …
2 years, 4 months ago
Story of Writing January 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 110
Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense," "The New England Journal of Medicine" publishes "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics," the birth…
2 years, 4 months ago