Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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    5 min

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, February 19, 2020
    It’s the birthday of novelist Carson McCullers (1917), who published “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” when she was just 23 years old.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, February 18, 2020
    Today is the birthday of Sholem Aleichem (1895), known as the Mark Twain of Yiddish literature. He said, “No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Monday, February 17, 2020
    It’s the birthday of English crime novelist Ruth Rendell (1930-2015), who said, “The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.”

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, February 16, 2020
    It's the birthday of the printer Giambattista Bodoni (Italy, 1740), namesake of the popular typeface Bodoni. He personally designed around 300 typefaces.

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    6 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, February 15, 2020
    Today is the 200th birthday of Susan B. Anthony, a pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement. In 1920, 14 years after her death, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.

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    6 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Friday, February 14, 2020
    Today is Saint Valentine’s Day, named for a Roman priest who performed clandestine weddings in defiance of Emperor Claudius II’s law forbidding marriage.

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    6 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, February 13, 2020
    To get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day, today we feature love stories from fiction and history, from John & Abigail Adams to Romeo & Juliet.

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    6 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, February 12, 2020
    On this day in 1809, two of the world’s most famous men were born: Abraham Lincoln, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and Charles Darwin in Shropshire, England.

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    6 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, February 11, 2020
    It’s the birthday of Thomas Edison (Ohio, 1847), who amassed 1,093 patents for inventions including the phonograph, the light bulb, and the movie camera.

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    6 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Monday, February 10, 2020
    Today is the 50th birthday of Åsne Seierstad, the Norwegian journalist and author of “The Bookseller of Kabul.”

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    6 min

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