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Recent episodes:
Jul. 05, 2009: The Writer's AlmanacSunday’s Poem: "A Warm Summer in San Francisco" by Carolyn Miller, from Light, Moving. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of French writer and artist Jean Cocteau, born in Maisons-Laffitte, France (1889), who hung out with Picasso, Proust, and Erik Satie. Cocteau was nicknamed "the Frivolous Prince" after the title of a poetry collection he’d published at age 21. Cocteau called poetry the foundation of art, and a "religion without hope."..
Jul. 04, 2009: The Writer's Almanac
Saturday’s Poem: "Highway Hypothesis" by Maxine Kumin, from The Long Marriage. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1931 that James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went down to a courthouse in London and got married. Joyce was 49 years old, and Nora was 47. The two had eloped more than a quarter of a century before…
Jul. 03, 2009: The Writer's Almanac
Friday’s Poem: "At the Airport Baggage Claim" by Charles Darling, from The Saints of Diminshed Capacity. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Franz Kafka, born in Prague (1883). Kafka’s best-known work is The Metamorphosis, which begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous bug."..
Jul. 02, 2009: The Writer's Almanac
Thursday’s Poem: "Terms of Endearment" by Sue Ellen Thompson, from The Leaving: New and Selected Poems. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse, born in Calw, a village in the Black Forest of Germany (1877). He’s the author of the novels Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1929), and The Glass Bead Game (1943), as well as a large body of poetry…
Jul. 01, 2009: The Writer's Almanac
Wednesday’s Poem: "Advice to a Pregnant Daughter-in-Law" by Charles Darling, from The Saints of Diminished Capacity. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of grammarian William Strunk Jr., born in Cincinnati, Ohio (1869). He was a professor at Cornell University for 46 years, and during that time, he created the "little book" known as The Elements of Style (1918) in order to make it easier to grade his students’ composition papers…
Jun. 30, 2009: The Writer's Almanac
Tuesday’s Poem: "The Lonely Shoe Lying on the Road" by Muriel Spark, from All The Poems of Muriel Spark. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1936 that Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind was first published…
Jun. 29, 2009: The Writer's Almanac
Monday’s Poem: "The Effort" by Billy Collins, from Ballistics. Monday’s Literary Notes: On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre burned down. It was built by Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, in 1599. A cannon was fired during a performance of Henry VIII to mark the King’s entrance, the thatched roof caught fire, and the whole theater was lost in an hour…
