Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

January 30, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, January 30, 2022
Fifty years ago today British army parachutists shot 27 unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland — an event known as "Bloody Sunday."

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January 29, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, January 29, 2022
It was on this day in 1845 that Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was published in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe only earned $9 for the poem.

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January 28, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Friday, January 28, 2022
It’s the birthday of Collette (1873) who said, "Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

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January 27, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, January 27, 2022
This day in 1832 marked the birth of Lewis Carroll, best known as the author of “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.”

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January 26, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, January 26, 2022
It's the 92nd birthday of Jules Feiffer, born in the Bronx (1929). His career as a satirist included being a cartoonist, novelist, and playwright.

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January 25, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Today we celebrate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Adeline Virginia Stephen, better known as Virginia Woolf.

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January 24, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Monday, January 24, 2022
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it."
--Edith Wharton, born on this day in New York City, 1862.

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January 23, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, January 23, 2022
For every poet it is always morning in the world… the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History." -- poet Derek Walcott, born on this day 1930.

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January 22, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, January 22, 2022
It was on this day in 1938 that Thornton Wilder's play “Our Town” was premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.

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January 21, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Friday, January 21, 2022
“I just try, like any writer, to be entertaining and interesting. I want people to get some pleasure and to learn something.”--Louis Menand (1952), American Critic and essayist.

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