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AUG

26

2008

Podcast Episode Aug. 27, 2008: The Writer's Almanac

Wednesday's Poem: "Hide-and-Seek 1933" by Galway Kinnell from Strong Is Your Hold. Wednesdsay's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of travel writer William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon in Kansas City, Missouri (1939). He's best known for an account of his journey across the back roads of America, Blue Highways. Of mixed English-Irish-Osage ancestry and the son of a lawyer, he spent the first part of his life immersed in academia, earning four degrees: a bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. in literature, and then a bachelor's in photojournalism. He had been a university professor in the late 1970s when, within the course of a few months, his life seemed to have fallen apart: He lost his teaching job because of declining student enrollment at his school, and his wife of 11 years separated from him...

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