Garrison Keillor's Podcast

"The major trick to writing good historical fiction is not in compiling research or knowing the details, but in knowing which details to leave out." –Elizabeth Crook, born this day in 1959

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On this day 200 years ago, one of the world's most celebrated pieces of art was discovered by a farmer on the Greek island of Melos: the marble statue Venus de Milo.

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It's the birthday of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (Detroit, 1939), who was heavily in debt when he was offered the job of directing what turned out to be “The Godfather” (1972).

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It's the birthday of country songwriter and singer Merle Haggard (1937), who wrote more than 600 songs in his lifetime, including about forty #1 hits.

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It’s the birthday of Hattie Alexander (1901), who developed a treatment for the deadly childhood illness influenzal meningitis, also known as Hib.

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It’s the birthday of Maya Angelou (1928-2014), who is best known for her writing but who also was a dancer, singer, civil rights activist, and world traveler.

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On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “Let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be.”

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"My follies are the follies of youth. You will see that I laugh at them, and if you are kind you will laugh at them with me."
–Casanova, born this day in 1725

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It’s the birthday of Rachel Maddow (1973), who went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and became the first openly gay American news anchor.

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It starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they said No,
it starts when you say We…
–from today’s poem by Marge Piercy

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