Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    Today we celebrate the birth of two poets, Robert Lowell (1917) and Richard Wilbur (1921), both two-time winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Monday, February 28, 2022
    Colum McCann celebrates his 57th birthday today. His latest work, “Apeirogon,” is a novel about a friendship between two men, one Israeli and one Palestinian.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, February 27, 2022
    Novelist John Steinbeck was born on this day in 1902. "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, February 26, 2022
    Today is the birthday of Fats Domino (1928) who sold more records in the 1950’s than anyone other than Elvis Presley.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Friday, February 25, 2022
    "Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist." -- Anthony Burgess (1972), best known as the author of the dystopian novel “A Clockwork Orange.”

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, February 24, 2022
    "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." – Steve Jobs, born on this day (1955).

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, February 23, 2022
    On this day in 1898 the French novelist Émile Zola was found guilty of libel for writing "J'accuse," an exposee on how the French Government had convicted an innocent man.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, February 22, 2022
    Today is the birthday of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892). Millay performed her poem "Renascence" and a woman was so impressed that she paid Edna's college tuition.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Monday, February 21, 2022
    This day in 1925 the first edition of The New Yorker magazine was published. The first cover was drawn by Rea Irvin. The image was a dandy in a top hat looking at a butterfly through a monocle.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, February 20, 2022
    On this day in 1902, Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco. His photographs of Yosemite and other wilderness areas would become familiar to millions of people.

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    5 min

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