Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

March 05, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, March 5, 2021
"The law has nothing to do with justice, and injustice can't be left unchallenged. So I decided to be a writer” – Leslie Marmon Silko, born this day in 1948

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March 04, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, March 4, 2021
Today is the birthday of author Khaled Hosseini, born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His breakout novel “The Kite Runner” sold over 1 million copies in 2 years.

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March 03, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
On this day in 1931 Francis Scott Key’s poem "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the official national anthem of the United States.

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March 02, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, March 2, 2021
“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” – Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904)

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March 01, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, March 1, 2021
On this date in 1872 Yellowstone became the first national park in the world. American author Wallace Stegner wrote: "National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic."

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February 28, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, February 28, 2021
On this date in 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA after stealing the work of biophysicist Rosalind Franklin who had X-ray photographed the DNA molecule.

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February 27, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, February 27, 2021
It's the birthday of the writer who said, "Truth disappears with the telling of it": Lawrence Durrell (1911). He is author of “The Alexandria Quartet” four books covering the same events from different points of view.

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February 26, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, February 26, 2021
The Grand Canyon was called by Teddy Roosevelt, “the one great sight which every American should see.” On this day in 1919 it was designated a National Park.

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February 25, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, February 25, 2021
Today is the birthday of Anthony Burgess (1917). A writer of a great many things, he once said: “To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

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February 24, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read — in such a moment, anything can happen.” –Jane Hirshfield, born in New York City on this day, 1953.

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