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Back to Search806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan
Episode 806
By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was widely regarded as America's most popular poet, beloved for the simple, sincere verses that …
7 hours ago
805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]
Episode 805
In preparation for next week's conversation with Adam Plunkett, author of a new major biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), we revisit an earlier ep…
4 days, 7 hours ago
804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea
Episode 804
It's Memorial Day in the United States, a day devoted to remembering the soldiers who have died in service. Together, the society grieves, mourns, an…
1 week ago
803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Book with Mark Hussey
Episode 803
The rise of Artificial Intelligence has sent shockwaves through the literary world, with the impact being felt by both publishers and creative types.…
1 week, 4 days ago
802 Colette (with Kathleen Antonioli) | My Last Book with Colombe Schneck
Episode 802
Twentieth-century French novelist Colette (1873-1954) was a strikingly modern celebrity and full of contradictions. In this episode, Jacke talks to …
2 weeks ago
801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)
As the History of Literature Podcast Tour rolls through literary England, Jacke and Emma are revisiting some past episodes with connections to what t…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker
Episode 800
It's Episode 800! Jacke celebrates the milestone by talking to Shakespeare scholar Indira Ghose about her book Shakespeare in Jest, which draws fasci…
3 weeks ago
799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert
Happy Mother's Day! Jacke takes advantage of an error to revisit a conversation with novelist Laurie Frankel about her book Enormous Wings, in which …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited)
Episode 799
As Jacke and Emma travel to England for the History of Literature Podcast Tour, they're revisiting some past interviews with special guests. In this …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ramie Targoff
Is there such a thing as a general human nature? And if so, does Shakespeare serve as a "faithful mirror" to it, as Dr. Johnson claimed? In this epis…
3 weeks, 5 days ago