Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

January 10, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Monday, January 10, 2022
It's the birthday of Stephen Ambrose, who said of why he chose to become a historian “[It] occurred to me that I could add to the sum of the world's knowledge."

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January 09, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, January 9, 2022
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels." –Simone de Beauvoir, born this day in Paris, 1980.

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January 08, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, January 8, 2022
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." – Stephen Hawking, born on this day, 1942.

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January 07, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Friday, January 7, 2022
Africain American filmmaker, author, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was born in Alabama on this day in 1891. Author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”

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January 06, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Thursday, January 6, 2022
“I write pieces, and move them around. And the fun of it is watching the truthful parts slide together. What is false won’t fit.” --Elizabeth Strout, novelist, born on this day in 1956.

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January 05, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Today is the birthday of literary and social activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, born in Kenya, 1938. He writes in his native Kikuyu language to celebrate his heritage and protest Kenya’s use of English as the official language.

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January 04, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin celebrates her 79th birthday today. About her work she has said, “As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.”

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January 03, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Monday, January 3, 2022
"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." said Herman Melville, author of “Moby Dick,” who went to sea on the whaler Acushnet on this day, 1841.

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January 02, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Sunday, January 2, 2022
American Cartoonist Lynda Barry turns 65 today. And,it’s the birthday of author Isaac Asimov (1920) who has books in all 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal System.

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January 01, 2022 The Writer's Almanac for Saturday, January 1, 2022
New Years Day is the birthday of J.D. Salinger,born in New York City (1919), author of “The Catcher in the Rye” which has sold more than 60 million copies.

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