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Back to Search648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book with Sandra Spanier
Episode 648
Throughout the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway was in the public eye as a journalist, short story writer, activist, and one of the most famous writers on the…
1 year, 6 months ago
647 The Brontes [HOL Encore]
Episode 647
Although their lives were filled with darkness and death, their love for stories and ideas led them into the bright realms of creative genius. They w…
1 year, 7 months ago
646 Discovering a Long Lost Slave Narrative (with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder)
Episode 646
When he undertook his research on Harriet Jacobs and her brother John Swanson Jacobs, scholar Jonathan D.S. Schroeder wasn't expecting to find John's…
1 year, 7 months ago
645 Richard Wright
Episode 645
"Wright was one of those people," said poet Amiri Baraka, "who made me conscious of the need to struggle."
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at th…
1 year, 7 months ago
644 Jack Kerouac (with Steven Belletto)
Episode 644
Critics didn't know quite what to make of twentieth-century American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), but readers had less difficulty. In …
1 year, 7 months ago
643 Aesop and His Fables (with Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with Boel Westin
Episode 643
Aesop's fables - including such classics as "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Fox and the Grapes," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" - are among the …
1 year, 7 months ago
642 Theater and Democracy (with James Shapiro)
Episode 642
It's hard to imagine now, but the United States government wasn't always hostile or indifferent to the arts. In fact, from 1935 to 1939, President Fr…
1 year, 7 months ago
641 Blood, Guts, and Books - Inside the Medieval Scriptorium (with Sara Charles) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Coggeshall
Episode 641
Medieval manuscripts are so wondrously beautiful they deserve comparison with the world's finest works of art. But what was behind the production of …
1 year, 7 months ago
640 Chaucer the Merry Bard (with Mary Flannery)
Episode 640
Yes, he's the father of English poetry, and yes, he's perhaps best known today for bawdy tales like the Wife of Bath. But who was Geoffrey Chaucer? H…
1 year, 7 months ago
639 Immersed in Print (with Geoffrey Turnovsky) | My Last Book with Liz Rosenberg
Episode 639
Bibliophiles everywhere know the sweet feeling of getting lost in a book. And like all good literary snobs, we tend to think that full immersion requ…
1 year, 7 months ago