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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, March 27, 2022

Posted on March 27, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Why I’m Here by Jacqueline Berger Because my mother was on a date with a man in the band, and my father, thinking she was alone, asked her to dance. And because, years earlier, my father dug a foxhole but his buddy sick with the flu, asked him for it, so he dug another for […]

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, March 26, 2022

Posted on March 26, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the 80th birthday of the author Erica Jong. Best known for the boldly sexual feminist novel “Fear of Flying”. Her most recent work is a poetry collection, “The World Began with Yes” (2019).

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, March 25, 2022

Posted on March 25, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Flannery O’Connor (1925), who said that her subject was “the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, March 24, 2022

Posted on March 24, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will result in sudden death.” –Harry Houdini, born on this day 1874.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Posted on March 23, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, born in Tokyo, Japan (1910). Best known for his film “Rashomon.” George Lucas said he lifted the plot of Star Wars from Kurosawa’s epic, “Hidden Fortress.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Posted on March 22, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the window pane.” – poet Billy Collins, born on this day in 1941.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, March 21, 2022

Posted on March 21, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today in 1965 thousands of marchers left Selma, Alabama, headed to Montgomery, to protest the disenfranchisement of African-American voters.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, March 20, 2022

Posted on March 20, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1852, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published. It sold 10,000 copies in its first week and about 2 million copies by 1857.

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, March 19, 2022

Posted on March 19, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Nikolai Gogol, born in Great Sorochintsy, Ukraine (1809). His works were very popular in Russia and strongly influenced Dostoevsky and other Russian writers of the 19th century.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, March 18, 2022

Posted on March 18, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“There is nothing but beauty — and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.” — French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, born on this day 1842.

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