Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast
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Each day, The Writer's Almanac features Garrison Keillor recounting the highlights of this day in history and reads a short poem or two. The Writer's Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media.
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Sep. 05, 2008: The Writer's Almanac
Fri, Sep 05, 2008
Friday's Poem: "Greenhouse" by Paul Hostovsky from Bird in the Hand. Friday's Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1957 that Jack Kerouac's book On the Road was published. His inspiration for the book came 10 years earlier. He was living in New York City with his mother, trying to write his first novel, when he met a drifter named Neal Cassady, an ex-convict from Denver who had actually been born in a car, and who became a car thief when he was 14 years old. By the time Kerouac met him, Cassady had stolen more than 500 cars and had been arrested 10 times. Kerouac later wrote, "All my other current friends were intellectuals ... [but Cassady] was a wild yea-saying overburst of American Joy."..
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