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Back to Search658 "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay | Literary Journeys (with John McMurtrie)
Episode 658
After taking a look at a wintry poem by Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay, Jacke talks to editor John McMurtrie about his new book Literary Journe…
1 year, 5 months ago
657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele Pedulla
Episode 657
From the beginning of his career as a poet, W.H. Auden wrestled with the meaning of Englishness. He came out with a collection of poems entitled On T…
1 year, 5 months ago
656 Novelist Chigozie Obioma on Literature, Life, and His Love for Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day [HOL Encore]
Episode 656
By listener request, Jacke presents a conversation with Nigerian-born novelist Chigozie Obioma (The Road to the Country, The Fishermen, An Orchestra …
1 year, 6 months ago
655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with Mary Flannery
Episode 655
Guilty pleasures! We use the phrase all the time, but what does it really mean? Can reading a book ever be a guilty pleasure? A listener suggests tha…
1 year, 6 months ago
654 Loving (and Reclaiming) Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne)
Episode 654
Troubled patron saint of confessional poetry? Quintessential literary sad girl? Genius poet rightfully viewed as the heir to Emily Dickinson? In her …
1 year, 6 months ago
653 J.D. Salinger
Episode 653
He's best known as the author of The Catcher in the Rye, one of the great publishing and cultural successes of the twentieth century. But there was m…
1 year, 6 months ago
652 Writing a Comic Novel (with Charles Baxter) | My Last Book with Bill Eville
Episode 668
Jacke talks to award-winning novelist and short story writer Charles Baxter about his new book, Blood Test: A Comedy, which the New York Times says "…
1 year, 6 months ago
651 Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey | The Heroine's Labyrinth (with Douglas Burton) | My Last Book with Douglas Burton
Episode 651
In 1949, Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces posited the existence of a "monomyth," a universal pattern that formed the basis of heroic tale…
1 year, 6 months ago
650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi)
Episode 650
Written in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has been an essential component of Western literature for more than 700 years. In this ep…
1 year, 6 months ago
649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway | My Last Book with David L. Cooper
It's a Literary Feast Day at the History of Literature Podcast! First, Jacke talks to old friend Mike Palindrome about his love for A Moveable Feast,…
1 year, 6 months ago