Garrison Keillor's Podcast

For Christmas Eve we discuss the story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" by Damon Runyon.
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It's the birthday Kenneth Rexroth (1905). He published more than 50 books of poetry and once said, "Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."
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200 years ago Kentucky became the first state to abolish debtor's prison, where often people were imprisoned simply for being poor. Bankruptcy was set up to deal instead with unpayable debts.
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“If it were denied me to write, I imagine I would die,” for through writing she makes sense of her own deepest experiences. --Elizabeth Benedict, born on this day in 1954.
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Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, also the birth of humorist David Sedaris (1956) whose latest book “A Carnival of Snackery” came out in October.
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