The Writer's Allman Brother
A weekly discursion into 1000% true author biographies with a poem schtuck on the end.
Episodes
45 episodes
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, October 9, 2026
Singer sewing machine patentedThe Washington Monument opens to the public John Lennon (and son) The Iceman Cometh opens on Broadway“Short Talk on Sunday Dinner with Father” by Anne Carson
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, October 2, 2026
Richard the IIIBrigham Young arrested! Graham GreeneGroucho MarxSparrow"Poem" by Sparrow
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, September 25, 2026
Benedict Arnold turns coatThe Bill of RightsWilliam Faulkner Barbara Waltersand 18 more!
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, September 18, 2026
Samuel Johnson Greta Garbo The New York TimesThe CIAJada Pinkett Smith
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, September 11, 2026
D.H. LawrencePiggly WigglyOlive Samuel GreenspanA Quote from Benjamin Franklin"I Saw You Empire State Building" by Edwin Torres
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, September 4th, 2026
Beatrix Potter writes "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"Paul HarveyBeyoncé Knowles "Back o' Town Blues" by Stephen Jonas
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 28, 2026
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRita DoveJack Black Jason Priestley "Ham on a Rainbow" by Michael Gizzi
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 21, 2026
Aubrey BeardsleyThe Mona Lisa is stolen! Melvin Van PeeblesKim CattrallKelis"Sonnet" by Bernadette Mayer
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 14, 2026
V-J DayDanielle SteeleSteve MartinDavid CrosbyHalle Berry"Servetta Muta" by Brenda Coultas
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 7, 2026
The Amazing RandiDavid DuchovnyGarrison Keillor"I Was Trotting Along and Suddenly" by Morgan Parker
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 31st, 2026
J.K. RowlingMark CubanDickey Betts arrested"Some Questions and Answers" by Ruth Lepson
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 24, 2026
Window tax repealedBill the Butcher Fredrick Law OlmstedOperation GomorrahZelda Fitzgerald"Keep the Beat" by Diane di Prima
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 17, 2026
David HasselhoffPhyllis DillerSpencer DavisPhyllis DavisCamilla Parker "Geezer" Bowles"Another Elegy" by Jericho Brown
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 10, 2026
John CalvinNikola TeslaMavis StaplesJessica SimpsonSolomon NorthrupChiwetel EjioforMoo Deng"Mother's Day" by Bianca Stone
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 3, 2026
Tom CruiseFranz KafkaMontel Williams "The Unsafe Exit Corridor of Your Voice" by John Coletti
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 26, 2026
JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speechPearl S. Buck The first Harry Potter book comes outDerek Jeter Barry Gibb is knightedDavid Greenberger"Everything Spoken Between Songs in the Order that They...
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 19, 2026
JuneteenthMalika al-FassiJoe Louis KO's Billy ConnReparations debate in Congress"The Ghost Survivor" by Will Alexander
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 12, 2026
George H.W. BushJordan Peterson"My Brother, My Wound" by Natalie Diaz
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 5, 2026
The Full ShermanSpalding GrayChristy BrownSuze Orman"Message" by Allen Ginsberg
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 29, 2026
15 Women Fired for Doing the Turkey TrotBob HopeFirst Mastectomy JFK"Exclusively on Venus" by Trace Peterson
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 22nd, 2026
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBernie TaupinTed KaczynskiSun Ra"the rockets wind, the blast of space" by Sun Ra
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 15, 2026
The Papal Bull Ad ExtirpandaThe National Women's Suffrage Association - New York CharterL. Frank Baum"Visions of Rotterdam" by Gregory Corso
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 8, 2026
Pejk MalinovskiPhillis WheatleyRoddy Doyle"Hello, I'm Erica Jong" by Kathy Acker