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25

2008

Podcast Episode Aug. 26, 2008: The Writer's Almanac

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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