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Back to Search668 Book and Dagger - The Scholars and Librarians Who Became Spies and Fought the Nazis (with Elyse Graham) | Jane Austen Turns 250
Episode 668
When the U.S. joined the war in the 1940s, it had a problem: its military had virtually no intelligence service. Enter the librarians! In this episod…
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667 Sui Sin Far (with Victoria Namkung) | My Last Book with Samantha Rose Hill
Episode 667
Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914) grew up in unusual circumstances: her father was an English merchant who traveled to China on business, and her mother …
1 year, 4 months ago
666 "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Lev Grossman
Episode 666
First published in December of 1922, "Winter Dreams" was one of the short stories known as the "Gatsby cluster," as F. Scott Fitzgerald worked out th…
1 year, 4 months ago
665 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian) [Ad-Free Encore Edition]
Episode 665
In 1819, John Keats quit his job as an assistant surgeon, abandoned an epic poem he was writing, and focused his poetic energies on shorter works. Wh…
1 year, 5 months ago
664 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2 [Ad-Free Encore Version]
Episode 664
Happy holidays! In this episode, presented without commercial interruption, Jacke revisits the second half of the classic James Joyce short story "Th…
1 year, 5 months ago
663 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 1 [Ad-Free Encore Edition]
Episode 663
Happy holidays! In this episode, presented without commercial interruption, Jacke revisits the first part of the the classic James Joyce holiday stor…
1 year, 5 months ago
662 Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction - Black Women Writing Under Segregation (with Eve Dunbar) | My Last Book with Deni Kasa
Episode 662
Generally speaking, a common conception of U.S. race relations in the mid-twentieth century runs like this: segregation was racist and bad, the doctr…
1 year, 5 months ago
661 James Baldwin (with Colm Tóibín)
Episode 661
Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. Inspired by the illumination and insight in Baldwin's Go T…
1 year, 5 months ago
660 "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | My Last Book with Amelia Possanza
Episode 660
Before his marriage, before meeting Herman Melville, and before the publication of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was living in near seclusi…
1 year, 5 months ago
659 The Legend of King Arthur (with Lev Grossman)
Episode 659
A legendary king, knights of the round table, magic and myths and valiant quests - the stories of King Arthur (also known as the "Matter of Britain")…
1 year, 5 months ago