Oct. 05, 2008: The Writer's Almanac

Sunday’s Poem: “A Woman Feeding Gulls” by David Wagoner from Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Flann O’Brien, born Brian O’Nolan in County Tyrone, Ireland (1911), and best known in his time as Myles na Gopaleen, the writer of a clever and often satirical column for The Irish Times. Today he is most famous for his postmodern novels At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) and The Third Policeman (1967)…