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Story of Writing October 27, 2023
Season 1 Episode 156
"The Extermination Order" of Missouri, Vasily Arkhipov refuses to launch a nuclear torpedo, and Sylvia Plath's birthday - with a reading from "The Se…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 26, 2023
Season 1 Episode 155
The most famous gunfight of the American West, Ida B. Wells publishes "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases," and happy birthday to Hillary …
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 25, 2023
Season 1 Episode 154
The (actual) charge of the light brigade, the Zinoviev letter, and birthday cake for Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Anne Tyler, and Zadie Smith - with a rea…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 24, 2023
Season 1 Episode 153
The first transcontinental telegraph line goes operational, Annie Taylor goes over Niagara Falls, and the women of Iceland go on strike, and happy bi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 23, 2023
Season 1 Episode 152
The first National Women's Rights Convention, and happy birthday to Ellie Greenwich and Michael Crichton - with a reading from Crichton's "The Lost W…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 22, 2023
Season 1 Episode 151
The Cuban Missile Crisis, Jean-Paul Sartre declines the Nobel Prize in Literature, red dyes get banned, and happy birthday to Doris Lessing, Timothy …
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 21, 2023
Season 1 Episode 150
Thomas Edison submits his patent application for the incandescent light bulb, Ernest Hemingway publishes "For Whom the Bell Tolls," 50,000 people mar…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 20, 2023
Season 1 Episode 149
Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase, setting the U.S.-Canada border, the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural E…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 19, 2023
Season 1 Episode 148
The British surrender at Yorktown, "Black Monday," and birthdays of Miguel Angel Asturias, Walter Munk, John le Carre, Philip Pullman, and Tracy Chev…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 18, 2023
Season 1 Episode 147
"Moby Dick" is published in London, Phillis Wheatley is freed, and birthdays of Isabel Briggs Meyers, Martha Burk, Ntozake Shange, Wendy Wasserstein,…
2 years, 7 months ago