Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, February 9, 2022
    Today is the birthday of Alice Walker (1944), author of “The Color Purple.” Her memoir “Gathering Blossums Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000,” will be published this spring.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, February 8, 2022
    Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born on this day in 1910. She published only 101 poems in her lifetime, and reworked her poem "The Moose" for 25 years.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Monday, February 7, 2022
    Today is 210 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, one of the most famous writers in the English language.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, February 5, 2022
    Today marks the birth of William S. Burroughs, 1914. The American novelist, poet, and painter is best known for his novel “Naked Lunch.”

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Friday, February 4, 2022
    Novelist MacKinlay Kantor was born on this day in 1904. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “Andersonville” (1955), about a Confederate prison camp, which he spent 25 years researching.

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, February 3, 2022
    Today is the birthday of painter Norman Rockwell (1894), the first female doctor Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), and writer Gertrude Stein (1874).

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, February 6, 2022
    Food and plant centered non-fiction writer, Michael Pollan, celebrates his 67th birthday today. He urges, “Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, February 2, 2022
    The author of “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake,” James Joyce, was born on this day 140 years ago in Dublin 1882. One of his Parisian friends remarked, "He had not taste, only genius."

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    Poet Langston Hughes was born on this day in 1902, 120 years ago. He said, “Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.”

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  • The Writer's Almanac for Monday, January 31, 2022
    This day in 1923 Norman Mailer was born, author of “The Naked and the Dead,” “The Armies of the Night,” and “The Executioner’s Song.”

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    5 min

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