Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

August 07, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, August 7, 2020
Today’s episode features a poem by Galway Kinnell, called “Wait,” promising that “Personal events will become interesting again.”

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August 06, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, August 6, 2020
75 years ago today, in 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing 80,000 people on impact.

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August 05, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" on this day in 1924. Creator Harold Gray was staunchly anti-FDR, but the musical version intentionally subverted his politics.

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August 04, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
It’s the birthday of pioneering jazz musician Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), who said, “Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad but what we’re doing to it.”

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August 03, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, August 3, 2020
It’s the birthday of British crime novelist P.D. James (1920-2014), who had a seat in the House of Lords and also worked as a local magistrate.

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August 02, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, August 2, 2020
It's the 78th birthday of Isabel Allende (1942), who once got fired for translating romance novels too liberally, adding depth and independence to the women characters.

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August 01, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, August 1, 2020
It’s the birthday of the astronomer Maria Mitchell (1818), who made the first American comet sighting and who was the first female faculty member of Vassar College.

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July 31, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, July 31, 2020
It's the birthday of poet and novelist Kim Addonizio (1954), who said, "Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive."

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July 30, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, July 30, 2020
On this day 55 years ago, Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965, creating Medicare and Medicaid.

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July 29, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
The painter Vincent van Gogh died on this date 130 years ago. World-famous now, he was virtually unknown at the time of his death.

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