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On this short, daily podcast, host Jon Brown talks about the writers and written work that made history on this day. Each episode includes a reading of prose or poetry.... more
FAQs about The Story of Writing:How many episodes does The Story of Writing have?The podcast currently has 771 episodes available.
March 25, 2025Story of Writing March 25, 2025Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr speaks of the death of segregation, and the birthday club includes Flannery O'Connor and Gloria Steinem - with a reading from O'Connor's "Wise Blood."...more4minPlay
March 24, 2025Story of Writing March 24, 2025The Quartering Act enrages American colonists, tuberculosis is identified, and the birthday club includes Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Erica Kennedy - with a reading from Gage's "Woman, Church, and State."...more5minPlay
March 23, 2025Story of Writing March 23, 2025Patrick Henry speaks out during the Second Revolutionary convention, Archbishop Oscar Romero pleads for peace in El Salvador, and the birthday club includes Akira Kurosawa and Subhadra Joshi - with a reading from Henry's speech....more5minPlay
March 22, 2025Story of Writing March 22, 2025The first treaty between indigenous tribes and European Americans is signed, the top court in the US rules in favor of contraceptives and pre-marital sex, and the birthday club includes Louis L'Amour, Al Neuharth, Stephen Sondheim, George Benson, and Andrew Lloyd Webber - with a reading from George Eliot's "Middlemarch."...more5minPlay
March 21, 2025Story of Writing March 21, 2025The state of Tennessee prohibits the teaching of human evolution, the first comic-con, the UN Framework Convention on Climate, and the birthday club includes Dorothea Beale, Son House, Forrest Mars, Senior, and Solomon Burke - with a reading from Beale's "Work and Play in Girls’ Schools."...more5minPlay
March 20, 2025Story of Writing March 20, 2025Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published, Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity, the birthday club includes Ovid, Anne Bradstreet, Carl Reiner, and Spike Lee - with a reading from Ovid's "Metamorphoses."...more5minPlay
March 19, 2025Story of Writing March 19, 2025Minna Canth, Philip Roth, and Clara Breed were born on this day - with a reading from Breed's article "Americans with the Wrong Ancestors."...more5minPlay
March 18, 2025Story of Writing March 18, 2025Wilfred Owens, Fred Shuttlesworth, John Updike, Unita Blackwell, and Frances Cress Welsing - with a reading of Owens' "Anthem for Doomed Youth."...more5minPlay
March 17, 2025Story of Writing March 17, 2025It is the birthday of Bayard Rustin and Nat King Cole - with a reading from Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Enchanted Garden." ...more4minPlay
March 16, 2025Story of Writing March 16, 2025The birthday club includes Ethel Anderson, Eric P. Kelly, Ursula Goodenough, and Jorge Ramos - with a reading from Kelly's "The Christmas Nightingale."...more3minPlay
FAQs about The Story of Writing:How many episodes does The Story of Writing have?The podcast currently has 771 episodes available.