Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, April 10, 2022
    On this day in 1925 “The Great Gatsby” was first published to a mixed reception. Now viewed as a classic, in 2020 it entered the public domain.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, April 9, 2022
    On this day in 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Friday, April 8, 2022
    The editor and publisher Robert Giroux was born on this day, 1914. He published Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, and Flannery O’Connor.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, April 7, 2022
    Today, for his 252nd birthday, we hear a poem by William Wordsworth “I Have Thoughts that Are Fed by the Sun”

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  • The Writer's Almanac Wednesday, April 6, 2022
    On this day in 1748, excavations began to unearth the doomed city of Pompeii, the city buried in ash after the 79 BCE eruption of Mount Vesuvious.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, April 5, 2022
    Today is the birthday of 16th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, born in 1837.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Monday, April 4, 2022
    Today we celebrate the 1928 birth of Maya Angelou, author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and 35 other books.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, April 3, 2022
    Today is the 88th birthday of Dr. Jane Goodall who said “What makes us human, I think, is the ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, April 2, 2022
    “If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” -- Émile Zola, born on this day in 1840.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Friday, April 1, 2022
    Kenyan teacher, author, and environmentalist Wangari Muta Maathai was born on this day, 1940. Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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