Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

January 10, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, January 10, 2020
Today is the birthday of the poet Dorianne Laux (1952), who wrote, “you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.”

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January 09, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, January 9, 2020
Today is the birthday of literary critic Michiko Kakutani (1955), who wrote her first book in 2018: “The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.”

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January 08, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Today would have been the 85th birthday of Elvis Presley (b. 1935), whose musical career began when he recorded a song for his mother’s birthday.

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January 07, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Today is the birthday of Zora Neale Hurston (1891), best known for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937) and her posthumous bestseller “Baracoon” (2018).

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January 06, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, January 6, 2020
On this day 1907, Maria Montessori opened her first school in Rome, Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House. There she developed her Montessori Method of education.

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January 05, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, January 5, 2020
Featuring a poem by Louis Jenkins, who passed away at age 77 on December 21st. We loved featuring his wry words all these years on the Almanac. Rest in peace, Louis.

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January 04, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, January 4, 2020
It’s the birthday of Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943), whose most recent book is "Leadership in Turbulent Times."

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January 03, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, January 3, 2020
“In the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source."
–Lucretia Coffin Mott, born this day in 1793

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January 02, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, January 2, 2020
Today is the birthday of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, born Petrovichi, Russia in 1920. He would be turning 100 today if he were still alive.

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January 01, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, January 1, 2020
The first time that New Year's Day was celebrated on January 1st was in 45 B.C., when Caesar redid the Roman calendar (it later had to be corrected in the 1570s).

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