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Podcast Feed APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast feed

Each day, The Writer's Almanac features Garrison Keillor recounting the highlights of this day in history and reading a short poem or two. The Writer's Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media.

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27
2008
Thursday's Poem: "Basketball" by G.E. Johnson. Thursday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of one of the greatest German writers ever, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in Frankfurt in 1749. He worked on his greatest drama, Faust (1832), for about 50 years. He based it on Christopher Marlowe's play Faust, about a scholar who sells his soul to Satan. In Marlowe's version, Faust is damned to hell, but Goethe has Faust defeat Mephistopheles and ascend into heaven...

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26
2008
Wednesday's Poem: "Hide-and-Seek 1933" by Galway Kinnell from Strong Is Your Hold. Wednesdsay's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of travel writer William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon in Kansas City, Missouri (1939). He's best known for an account of his journey across the back roads of America, Blue Highways. Of mixed English-Irish-Osage ancestry and the son of a lawyer, he spent the first part of his life immersed in academia, earning four degrees: a bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. in literature, and then a bachelor's in photojournalism. He had been a university professor in the late 1970s when, within the course of a few months, his life seemed to have fallen apart: He lost his teaching job because of declining student enrollment at his school, and his wife of 11 years separated from him...

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25
2008
Tuesday's Poem: "Teaching a Nephew to Type" by Rebecca McClanahan from Deeplight: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007. Tuesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of modern art collector and memoirist Peggy Guggenheim, born in New York City (1898), where she grew up "excessively unhappy and lonely," she said, during a "gilt-edged childhood." Her father died on the Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she inherited nearly half a million dollars when she was 14. She had been tutored privately until high school and then at age 15 went to a prestigious Jewish girls school on the West Side...

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24
2008
Monday's Poem: "The Sorrows" by Gary Fincke from The Fire Landscape: Poems. Monday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of journalist and novelist Frederick Forsyth (1938), born in Ashford, Kent, England. When he was just a student in Kent, Forsyth learned to speak French, German, Spanish, and Russian. At 17, he quit school and left home to see the world. He learned to fly a plane and joined the Royal Air Force as England's youngest pilot. And he set out to write thrillers like The Day of the Jackal (1971), The Odessa File (1972), The Devil's Alternative (1980), and The Fourth Protocol (1984)...

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23
2008
Sunday's Poem: "In The Park" by G. E. Johnson. Sunday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the writer Oscar Hijuelos, born in New York City in 1951. His parents were immigrants from Cuba, and his father supported the family by working in a hotel. Hijuelos went through the New York public schools, he went to City University, and then he got a job working in an advertising office. At night, he would write fiction, and he began to publish short stories. And slowly, story by story, he started to win grants and fellowships that gave him more time to write. He published the novel Our House in the Last World (1983), and then five more novels, including The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989), and all of them are stories of Cuban-American life. Mambo Kings won the Pulitzer Prize, which made Hijuelos the first Latino novelist to receive that honor...


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