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Story of Writing October 17, 2023
Marconi begins the first commercial, transatlantic wireless service. Quite the birthday club: Elinor Glyn, Jerry Siegel, Arthur Miller, George Mackay…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 16, 2023
Season 1 Episode 145
This is a fun one, mostly about the Cardiff Giant.
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 15, 2023
Season 1 Episode 144
The Julian calendar starts being replaced by the Gregorian calendar, and birthday celebrations for P. G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Italo Calvino, and Eu…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 14, 2023
Season 1 Episode 143
George Eastman patents his paper roll photographic film, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aung San Suu Kyi, Yasser Ara…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 13, 2023
Season 1 Episode 142
Unintentional birthday club edition, featuring Mary Kingsley, Arna Bontemps, and Paul Simon - with a reading of "A Black Man Talks of Reaping," writt…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 12, 2023
Season 1 Episode 141
Putting an end to the Salem Witch Trials, the U.S. gets its first asylum for the mentally ill, The Criminal Tribes Act in British India, Desmond Doss…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 11, 2023
Season 1 Episode 140
The intolerance and race riots that led to the "Gentlemen's Agreement" of 1907, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed for the first time, and a unique…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 10, 2023
Season 1 Episode 139
Spiro Agnew resigns, and the birthday club includes Louise Mack, Harold Pinter, Lily Tuck, and John Prine - with a reading from "A Woman's Experience…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 9, 2023
Season 1 Episode 138
Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony, France abolishes the death penalty, "Phantom of the Opera" premiered in London, Malala Yous…
2 years, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 8, 2023
Season 1 Episode 137
Opening the first hospital in North America, Der Spiegel runs an article on West Germany's military that results in charges of treason for the magazi…
2 years, 7 months ago