Story of Writing November 20, 2023

European powers sign the second Treaty of Paris, a whale attacks and destroys the Nantucket whaling ship The Essex, the UN adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the Velvet Revolution intensifies, and the birthday club includes Selma Lagerlof, Alistair Cook, and Don DeLillo - with a reading from Lagerlof's "Gosta Berling's Saga."