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The Story of Writing

Jon Brown

Story of Writing June 28, 2026

June 28, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, European powers sign the Treaty of Versailles, and it's Mel Brooks' birthday - with a reading from his memoir "All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business."

Story of Writing June 27, 2026

June 27, 2026 12:00am 5 min

The birthday club includes Emma Goldman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Helen Keller, and Grace Lee Boggs - with a reading from Boggs' "The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century."

Story of Writing June 26, 2026

June 26, 2026 12:00am 4 min

American soldiers arrive in France to join the Allies fighting WWI, the Allies that won Victory in Europe signed the charter creating the United Nations, Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" was first published, J...

Story of Writing June 25, 2026

June 25, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Custer makes his last stand and the birthday club includes David Douglas and George Orwell - with a reading from Orwell's "1984."

Story of Writing June 24, 2026

June 24, 2026 12:00am 3 min

The birthday club includes Ambrose Bierce and Mary Wesley - with a reading from Wesley's "The Camomile Lawn."

Story of Writing June 23, 2026

June 23, 2026 12:00am 4 min

The U.S. approves its first birth-control pill, Title IX is amended, Nixon incriminates himself, and it's the 10th anniversary of Brexit - with a reading from Julie Phillips' "What Contraception Meant to a Century of Wom...

Story of Writing June 22, 2026

June 22, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Establishing the U.S. Department of Justice and the Cuyahoga River catches on fire, again. This episode includes a reading from a speech in 1866 by Ohio Representative William Lawrence on the need for a Department of Jus...

Story of Writing June 21, 2026

June 21, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Marie-Joseph Angelique is sentenced to death for burning Old Montreal, three voting-rights organizers are murdered in Mississippi, and it is Jean-Paul Sartre's birthday - with a reading from Sartre's "Nausea."

Story of Writing June 20, 2026

June 20, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Samuel Morse gets the patent for the telegraph, the destructive Detroit race riot of 1943 begins, and it is the birthday of Lillian Hellman - with a reading from her book "An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir."

Story of Writing June 19, 2026

June 19, 2026 12:00am 6 min

The first game of baseball, Juneteenth, and JFK's civil rights legislation - with readings from Ralph Ellison and JFK, himself.Link to the Juneteenth reading list compiled by the National Museum of African American Histo...

Story of Writing June 18, 2026

June 18, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated at Waterloo, Charles Darwin learns that another naturalist is about to publish a theory of evolution nearly identical to Darwin's, England's PM Winston Churchill gives his speech now called...

Story of Writing June 17, 2026

June 17, 2026 12:00am 5 min

Sir Francis Drake makes a land claim on America's Pacific Coast that inspired the idea of Manifest Destiny. The Battle of Bunker Hill - the first salvo in America's Revolutionary War - begins near Boston, the Statue of L...

Story of Writing June 16, 2026

June 16, 2026 12:00am 5 min

The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is formed, Abraham Lincoln gives his "A House Divided" speech, it is Bloomsday! And it is the birthday of novelist Joyce Carol Oates - with a reading from her bo...

Story of Writing June 15, 2026

June 15, 2026 12:00am 5 min

England's King John signs the Magna Carta, Arlington National Cemetery is established, and the birthday club includes Josiah Henson and Harry Nilsson - with a reading from Nilsson's song "Everybody's Talking."

Story of Writing June 14, 2026

June 14, 2026 12:00am 4 min

It's Flag Day in the U.S., Charles Babbage proposes his "difference engine," the Bear Flag Revolt made northern Mexico the U.S. state of California, and it is Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday - with a reading from her la...

Story of Writing June 13, 2026

June 13, 2026 12:00am 4 min

Miranda rights become a requirement, Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, "The New York Times" starts publishing the Pentagon Papers, and it is the birthday of poet William Butler Yeats. This episode...

Story of Writing June 12, 2026

June 12, 2026 12:00am 3 min

The state of Virginia adopts George Mason's Declaration of Rights, Anne Frank is given a blank diary for her 13th birthday, and SCOTUS announces its ruling in Loving v. Virginia, and the birthday club includes Rona Jaffe...

Story of Writing June 11, 2026

June 11, 2026 12:00am 4 min

!!Content Warning!! This episode includes descriptions of suicide, racism, and murder as a hate crimeThe story of a day: this day in 1963 began with the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk in Vietnam, it saw racism in the...

Story of Writing June 10, 2026

June 10, 2026 12:00am 4 min

The Salem Witch Trials result in executions and the birthday club includes Blues man Howlin' Wolf and author Saul Bellow. This episode includes a reading from Bellow's "Seize the Day."

Story of Writing June 9, 2026

June 09, 2026 12:00am 4 min

France and China sign the Treaty of Tientsin - making Vietnam a French colony and the birthday club includes Cole Porter, Robert McNamara, and Jackie Wilson - with a reading from Porter's "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love...

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