Podcast Episodes
Back to Search708 Science Fact and Science Fiction (with Keith Cooper) | AI Discovers a Work of Ancient Philosophy and Dreams Up a Reading List
Episode 708
For decades, writers and filmmakers have imagined worlds where characters can do things like watch a double sunset (on Tatooine, of course), or stand…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
707 Emile Zola (with Robert Lethbridge) | Graham Greene's Only Ghost Story | My Last Book with Irina Mashinski
Episode 707
For years, listeners have been requesting an episode devoted to the French novelist, journalist, playwright, and public intellectual Émile Zola (1840…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
706 Living with Jane Austen (with Janet Todd) | A Listener Changes His Life | Bored Parents
Episode 706
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that Jane Austen's novels make us wish she was our friend. She wouldn't be just any old friend: she'd be the …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
705 Runaway Poets - How the Brownings Fell in Love (And Why It Matters)
Episode 705
Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) was one of the most prolific and accomplished poets of the Victorian age, an inspiration to Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wild…
1 year ago
704 Butterflies Regained
Episode 704
Poetry, butterflies, and original music oh my! With some help from poets Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, along wit…
1 year ago
703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey
Episode 703
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is one of the most famous novelists of his era - and one of the most difficult to pin down. Was he a tasteless, avant-garde…
1 year ago
702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!
Jacke talks to D.G. Rampton, Australia's Queen of the Regency Romance, about her love for the novels of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer - and what it…
1 year ago
701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick!
For several decades, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was perhaps the most prominent writer and intellectual in America. As an advocate of personal fr…
1 year ago
700 - Butterflies at Rest
Episode 700
Returning to some devastating news after a trip to Paris, Jacke searches for lost time.
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1 year ago
699 Gatsby's Daisy (with Rachel Feder) | My Last Book with Francesca Peacock
Episode 699
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby might be one hundred years old, but it's still incredibly relevant: one list-of-lists site ranks it as t…
1 year, 1 month ago