Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

March 31, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, March 31, 2022
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927. His leadership on labor and civil rights enmeshed his name with the organized labor movement. President Biden keeps a bust of Chávez behind his desk in the Oval Office.

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March 30, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Minnesota teacher and author Jon Hassler was born on this day 1933. Author of 12 novels, several set in the fictional town of Staggerford.

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March 29, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Monty Python star, Eric Idle, celebrates his 79th birthday today. Idle wrote many of Python’s songs including “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” and won a Tony for the musical “Spamalot” in 2004.

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March 28, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Monday, March 28, 2022
"A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery." -- Nelson Algren, born on this day in Detroit, 1909.

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March 27, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, March 27, 2022
John O’Farrell celebrates his 60th birthday today. He's a columnist, a stand-up comedian, and an author. His latest work is a novel, “There’s Only Two David Beckhams.”

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March 26, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, March 26, 2022
It’s the 80th birthday of the author Erica Jong. Best known for the boldly sexual feminist novel “Fear of Flying”. Her most recent work is a poetry collection, The World Began with Yes (2019).

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March 25, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Friday, March 25, 2022
Today is the birthday of Flannery O'Connor (1925), who said that her subject was "the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil."

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March 24, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, March 24, 2022
"The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will result in sudden death." –Harry Houdini, born on this day 1874.

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March 23, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Today is the birthday of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, born in Tokyo, Japan (1910). Best known for his film “Rashomon.” George Lucas said he lifted the plot of Star Wars from Kurosawa’s epic, “Hidden Fortress.

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March 22, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, March 22, 2022
“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the window pane.” – poet Billy Collins, born on this day in 1941.

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