Podcast Episodes
Back to Search678 Fernando Pessoa (with Bartholomew Ryan) | My Last Book with Robin Waterfield
Episode 678
Jacke's been trying to come to grips with Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa ever since Harold Bloom named him one of the 26 most influential …
1 year, 3 months ago
677 Dylan Thomas (with John Goodby) | Emily Brontë and the Search for Hope
Episode 677
Dylan Thomas: brilliant poet or self-indulgent blowhard? In this episode, Jacke talks to John Goodby, co-author of the biography Dylan Thomas: A Crit…
1 year, 3 months ago
676 "Mrs Spring Fragrance" by Sui Sin Far (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 676
Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, joins Jacke for a reading and discussion of "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" by Sui Sin Far.…
1 year, 3 months ago
675 Zora Neale Hurston (with Cheryl Hopson) | Jack Kerouac's Newly Discovered Writings
Episode 675
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was the most published African American woman writer of the first half of the twentieth century; her signature novel T…
1 year, 3 months ago
674 Nabokov vs Freud (with Joshua Ferris) [Ad-Free Re-Release]
Episode 674
“I admire Freud greatly,” the novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said, “as a comic writer.” For Nabokov, Sigmund Freud was “the Viennese witch-doctor,” o…
1 year, 4 months ago
673 Edna Ferber (with Julie Gilbert) | My Last Book with Jessica Kirzane
Episode 673
Novelist and playwright Edna Ferber (1885-1968) lived a wondrous life: residing in Manhattan as a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table, writing …
1 year, 4 months ago
672 The Little Review (with Holly A. Baggett) | My Last Book with Phil Jones
Episode 672
Founded in Chicago in 1914, the avant-garde journal the Little Review became a giant in the cause of modernism, publishing literature and art by lumi…
1 year, 4 months ago
671 Shakespeare's Tragic Art (with Rhodri Lewis) | My Last Book with Joel Warner
Episode 671
It is a truth universally acknowledged that tragedy is one of the world's highest art forms, and that Shakespeare was one of the form's greatest prac…
1 year, 4 months ago
670 The Parable
Episode 670
Inspired by an email (from a listener?) with mysterious origins, Jacke takes a look at the brief narrative form the parable. How did parables get the…
1 year, 4 months ago
669 Obsessed with Melville (with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder) | My Last Book with Alexander Poots
Episode 669
What happens when a woman becomes obsessed with Herman Melville during the pandemic? What if the process of sorting fact from fiction in Melville's w…
1 year, 4 months ago