Podcast Episodes

638 Thomas Mann

Episode 638

For fifty years, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann (1875-1955) lived his life as Germany's preeminent novelist and one of Europe's most respected intell…

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637 From the Archives - Heart of Darkness (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Fred Waitzkin

Episode 637

We asked, you answered! In response to a listener recommendation, we revisit a conversation from 2017 in which Mike and Jacke discuss Joseph Conrad's…

1 year, 8 months ago

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636 Emily Dickinson's Letters (with Cristanne Miller)

Episode 636

Who was Emily Dickinson? We think we know her, or at least one side of her, from her poems. But what was she like when she wasn't writing poetry? Wha…

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635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman

Episode 635

Dealing with reality can be difficult enough, but when the nature of that reality is completely overturned - as it is in a case like the climate cris…

1 year, 8 months ago

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634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown

Episode 634

For more than two thousand years, the Bible has been an essential part of the world's conception of humanity and its relationship to God. But althoug…

1 year, 8 months ago

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633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer

Episode 633

Discussions of Ernest Hemingway tend to focus on the peaks of his career, which are typically centered around his most famous novels. But Hemingway w…

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632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon)

For almost sixty years, Norman Mailer was a fixture on the American literary scene, seemingly as well known for his feuds and personal exploits as he…

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631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood

Episode 631

Recently, we talked to novelist Jodi Picoult about her contention that many of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by …

1 year, 8 months ago

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630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico

Episode 630

Was Shakespeare gay? Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, says that question has an easy answer - but more important…

1 year, 8 months ago

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629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer)

Episode 629

For thousands of years, desperate writers have struggled with the condition known as writer's block. In this episode, Jacke talks to novelist Kate Fe…

1 year, 9 months ago

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