Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

July 14, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, July 14, 2021
“Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.” – Woody Guthrie. Guthrie, an American troubadour, was born this day 1912.

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July 13, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Today we remember the birth in 1793 of the English Poet John Clare. A success in his own time, success could not save him from a life of madness.

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July 12, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, July 12, 2021
Henry David Thoreau was born on this day in 1817. His classic work “Walden” was written while living on property owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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July 11, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, July 11, 2021
The author of “Stuart Little” and “Charlotte's Web”, E.B. White, was born on this day 1899. He was also a prolific essayist and contributor to the New Yorker magazine.

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July 10, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, July 10, 2021
It’s the 90th birthday of Alice Munro, a Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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July 09, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, July 9, 2021
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks was born on this day in 1933. He wrote about complicated medical mysteries of the brain to appeal beyond academia.

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July 08, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, July 8, 2021
Today is the birthday of the columnist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen (1953), author of “How Reading Changed My Life” and “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.”

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July 07, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Today is the birthday of American genetics pioneer Nettie Stevens (1861) who discovered that the combinations XX and XY in chromosomes determined the sex of an organism.

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July 06, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Louis Pasteur successfully tested his rabies vaccine on this day in 1885 on a nine-year-old boy named Joseph Meister who was bitten by a rabid dog.

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July 05, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, July 5, 2021
“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work… then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.” -- Jean Cocteau, born 1889.

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