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Back to Search628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki
Episode 628
Is it really true? Did the Elizabethan poet Emilia Bassano (sometimes known as Aemelia Lanyer) actually write Shakespeare's works? A bestselling nove…
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627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino)
It's one of the most famous and admired short stories that Ernest Hemingway ever wrote - and also one of the most controversial. In this episode, Hem…
1 year, 9 months ago
626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams
As fans of literature, we all know how powerful and effective storytelling can be. But can we harness that power to help us communicate in our daily …
1 year, 9 months ago
625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg)
Episode 625
Since the publication of Little Women in 1868, millions of readers have gotten to know (and love) Louisa May Alcott through her fiction. But in her o…
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624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro
Theater is by nature ephemeral: even the greatest of performances are fleeting, thrilling a single audience before disappearing into history. But wha…
1 year, 10 months ago
623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics
Episode 623
The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs is one of the classics of Japanese literature. In this episode, Jacke talks to translator Glynne Walley about this massi…
1 year, 10 months ago
622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)
Episode 622
Lesbians have been around for thousands of years (at least!), but their voices have often fallen victim to censorship, oppression, and ostracization.…
1 year, 10 months ago
621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Episode 621
For Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy was "the greatest of all novelists," and her argument was simple: "[W]hat else can we call the author of War and Peac…
1 year, 10 months ago
620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees
What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How did writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dicke…
1 year, 10 months ago
619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding
Episode 619
Novelist Fred Waitzkin (Searching for Bobby Fischer) stops by to discuss Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, and his new novel Anything Is Good, which te…
1 year, 10 months ago