Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

March 21, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Monday, March 21, 2022
Today in 1965 thousands of marchers left Selma, Alabama, headed to Montgomery, to protest the disenfranchisement of African-American voters.

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March 20, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, March 20, 2022
On this day in 1852, “Uncle Tom's Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published. It sold 10,000 copies in its first week and about 2 million copies by 1857.

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March 19, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, March 19, 2022
Today is the birthday of Nikolai Gogol, born in Great Sorochintsy, Ukraine (1809). His works were very popular in Russia and strongly influenced Dostoevsky and other Russian writers of the 19th century.

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March 18, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Friday, March 18, 2022
"There is nothing but beauty — and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie." -- French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, born on this day 1842.

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March 17, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, March 17, 2022
Novelist and children’s author Penelope Lively was born on this day in Cairo, Egypt (1933). She’s the author of "Moon Tiger" and most recently a memoir "Life in the Garden."

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March 16, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, March 16 , 2022
Today is the birthday of César Vallejo born in Peru, in 1892. A poet, he only published two books in his lifetime but was hailed as a revolutionary innovator of the form.

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March 15, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, March 15, 2022
“Literature may come from a specific place, but it always lives in its own unique kingdom.” –Ben Okri, born in Minna, Nigeria on this day, 1959.

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March 14, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Monday, March 14, 2022
Sylvia Beach was born on this day in 1887. She founded the bookstore “Shakespeare and Company” in Paris which became an influential gathering place for English writers in the 1920s.

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March 13, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, March 13, 2022
Today in 1892 Jannet Flanner was born. She became a journalist who wrote a column called “Letters From Paris” starting in 1925, and also served as a WWII war correspondent.

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March 12, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, March 12, 2022
"Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own." -- Naomi Shihab Nye, celebrating 70 years of life today.

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