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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #17 for March 13: Henrik Ibsen, Norman Mailer and William Styron, and Kitty Genovese from 2012-03-13T07:30:09
On this day in 1891, Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts” opened for one night only at The Independent Theatre in London. The play had run into trouble with the Lord Chamberlain’s […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #16 for March 12: Andrew Carnegie, Roald Dahl and Robert Ludlum from 2012-03-12T07:30:56
On this day in 1901, millionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie offers New York City $5.2 million to build 65 branch libraries. He had sold that year the Carnegie Steel Company for […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #15 for March 11: Romeo and Juliet, Mary Shelley, Lorraine Hansbury and Douglas Adams from 2012-03-11T07:30:04
Before we get into today’s episode, the podcast will drop Monday through Friday from now on, to give me more time to work on it and other projects as well. […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #14 for March 10: Lord Byron and Zelda Fitzgerald from 2012-03-10T07:30:43
On this day in 1812, three years after attacking his critics in print, the first two cantos of Lord Byron’s Romantic epic “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” were published. The narrative poem […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #13 for March 9: Voltaire, Lord Byron and Virginia Woolf from 2012-03-09T07:30:23
On this day in 1765, Voltaire succeeded in getting a French court to exonerate a Huguenot cloth merchant, Jean Calas, of the murder of his son in Toulouse. It was […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #12 for March 8: Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Bouton from 2012-03-08T07:30:23
On this day in 1932, Henry Miller took Anaïs Nin to a Paris hotel room where they made love for the first time. He was an impoverished writer who moved […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #11 for March 7: Robert Frost, 2 Live Crew from 2012-03-07T07:30:02
On this day in 1923, Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” was published in the New Republic. He was living in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #10 for March 6: Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill and Dylan Thomas from 2012-03-06T17:50:45
On this day in 1888, Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” died at the age of 55, on the day of her father’s burial. She had worked from […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #9 for March 5: Charlotte Bronte, Dylan Thomas and Tom Clancy from 2012-03-05T17:15:10
On this day in 1839, Charlotte Bronte wrote a letter. Rev. Henry Nussey, the brother of her best friend, Ellen, had asked for her hand in marriage. There were a […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #8 for March 4: John Bunyan, George Sand and Frédéric Chopin, Sherlock Holmes and Ernest Hemingway from 2012-03-04T07:30:58
On this day in 1675, a warrant was issued for the arrest of nonconformist minister John Bunyan for preaching without a license from the king. He had been a wanderer […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #7 for March 3: Helen Keller, Anthony Comstock, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Koestler from 2012-03-03T07:30:13
On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six year old Helen Keller how to connect to a world she could neither see nor hear. She began by spelling […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #6 for March 2: D.H. Lawrence, Juvenal, Tom Wolfe and Dr. Seuss from 2012-03-02T17:38:41
On this day in 1930, D.H. Lawrence died at his rented home in Vence, France. Two days later, he was buried in the town cemetery. It was not to be […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #5 for March 1: Geoffrey Chaucer, James Murray and Astounding Science Fiction from 2012-03-01T14:23:51
On this day in 1360, the Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe paid £16, the equivalent about $15,000 to ransom a soldier who had been captured in the Burgundy region during […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #4 for Feb. 29: Joan Collins, Hattie McDaniel, the Family Circus, Tony Robbins from 2012-02-29T07:00
On this day in 1996, Joan Collins struck a blow for writers everywhere when a judge ruled that her publisher, Random House, should pay her an extra million dollars on […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #3 for Feb. 28: Henry Fielding, Upton Sinclair and Ben Hecht from 2012-02-28T05:48:19
On this day in 1749, Henry Fielding’s monumental novel “Tom Jones” was published, and helped establish the book as a means of conveying entertainment and enlightenment. A longtime lawyer and […]...
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #2 for Feb. 26: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Christopher Marlowe and Theodore Sturgeon from 2012-02-26T21:10:19
This is Writers Gone Wild for Sunday, February 26, 2012. On this day in 1956, poet Sylvia Plath looked across a crowded room at a literary party and saw, as […]
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Writers Gone Wild Podcast #1: John Millington Synge, Victor Hugo and P.G. Wodehouse from 2012-02-25T20:45:51
On this day in 1904, John Millington Synge’s play “Riders of the Sea” premiered at Molesworth Hall in Dublin by the Irish National Theatre Society. Set on the Aran Islands […]
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