http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/?rsssource=1 The Writer's Almanac features Garrison Keillor recounting the highlights of this day in history and reading a short poem or two. Copyright 2008 American Public Media Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://feeds.publicradio.org/~r/writersalmanac/~3/413476510/index.phpTuesday's Poem: "Now" by Greg Watson from The Distance Between Two Hands. Tuesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the novelist and critic Elizabeth Janeway, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1913. She was in college when she started writing a novel, but she didn't finish it until many years later, while she was raising her first child and pregnant with her second one. The novel was called The Walsh Girls (1943). She went on to write six more novels, and she was a social critic who wrote books about gender issues. She judged the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, and she was president of the Authors Guild. She was an influential book critic as well and wrote a famous defense of Lolita when it was first published in the United States. Elizabeth Janeway was the inspiration for the character Kathryn Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager...<img src="http://feeds.publicradio.org/~r/writersalmanac/~4/413476510" height="1" width="1"/>http://writersalmanac.org/index.php?date=2008/10/07?refid=0Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0600http://writersalmanac.org/index.php?date=2008/10/07?refid=0