Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, February 29, 2020
    “I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.” -Howard Nemerov, born this day in 1920.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Friday, February 28, 2020
    It's the birthday of Linus Pauling (1901), who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954 as well as the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his opposition to WMDs.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, February 27, 2020
    It's the birthday of Kiowa novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday (Oklahoma, 1934), whose first novel “House Made of Dawn” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
    "To love another person is to see the face of God." –French novelist Victor Hugo, author of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” born this day in 1802

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    On this day in 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England for the persecution of Catholics.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Monday, February 24, 2020
    Today is the birthday of Judith Butler (1956), who argued that we “perform” our gender in her 1990 text “Gender Trouble,” now essential reading in gender studies classes.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, February 23, 2020
    The lines “This land is your land and this land is my land/From the California to the New York Island” were written on this day 80 years ago by Woody Guthrie.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, February 22, 2020
    It’s the birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), a Jazz Age icon who drew huge crowds of adoring fans to her poetry readings and who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Friday, February 21, 2020
    It was 95 years ago today that the first issue of The New Yorker was published, an issue that the editors apologized for in the second issue.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, February 20, 2020
    It’s the birthday of Kurt Cobain (1967), lead singer of the band Nirvana, as well as Robert Altman (1925), who directed films including “A Prairie Home Companion.”

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    5 min

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