Garrison Keillor's Podcast

On this day in 1860 the first two chapters of Charles Dickens' novel “Great Expectations” were published.

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"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it"-- Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri on this day in 1835.

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November 29th celebrates the birth of Madeleine L’Engle author of “A Wrinkle in Time,”and Louisa May Alcott author of “Little Women”, and C.S. Lewis, author of “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

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It's the birthday of poet and artist William Blake, (1757). "Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas."

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Today is the birthday of Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, (1701) who invented the Celsius temperature scale.

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“The human situation is beautiful and strange. …The working of the mind is astonishing and beautiful.”-- Marilynne Robinson, born on this day,1943.

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Happy Thanksgiving from The Writer’s Almanac! We feature the November poem “Murmuration” by Barbara Crooker.”

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“I am a teller of stories. For me, that’s the only way I can make sense of the world.”-- Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist born on this day in 1961.

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On this date in the year 534 B.C.E., Thespis reportedly became the first Western actor to portray a character onstage. Prior to that theater was chorus based storytelling.

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It’s the birthday of novelist George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans in England (1819). She took a male pseudonym to be taken seriously as a writer.

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