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Back to Search798 Emma Smith and Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (Revisited)
Episode 798
As Jacke and Emma get ready for the History of Literature Podcast Tour, they're revisiting some past interviews with special guests. In this episode,…
4 weeks ago
797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited)
Episode 797
As Jacke and Emma get ready for the History of Literature Podcast Tour, they're revisiting some past interviews with special guests. In this episode,…
1 month ago
796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited)
Episode 796
As Jacke and Emma get ready for the History of Literature Podcast Tour, they're revisiting some past interviews with special guests. In this episode,…
1 month ago
795 Will Tosh and Queer Shakespeare (Revisited)
Episode 795
As Jacke and Emma get ready for the History of Literature Podcast Tour, they're revisiting some past interviews with special guests. In this episode,…
1 month, 1 week ago
794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with Gerri Kimber
Episode 794
In addition to being an accomplished lawyer and a highly influential music critic, the nineteenth-century German Romantic Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffm…
1 month, 1 week ago
793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with Peter Budrin) | My Last Book with Edward Watts
Episode 793
The 1920s were a tumultuous time for Russia, as the nation careened from the aftermath of revolution to the death of Lenin, the establishment of the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sperry) | My Last Book with Bruce Gordon
Episode 792
In this episode, Jacke talks to author Eileen Sperry about her book This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric, which examines how the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
791 Emilia Lanier (a.k.a Aemilia Bassano Lanyer) Revisited
Episode 791
The "Forgotten Women of Literature" series continues with a look at Aemilia Bassano Lanyer (1569-1645), the first Englishwoman to publish a volume of…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
790 Madness and Myth (with Natasha Joukovsky) | My Last Book with Kimberly Lau
Episode 790
What happens when an abnormally average man is suddenly on a path to greatness, as his picks in the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament start panning o…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
789 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Cass Sunstein
Episode 789
In 2025, Jacke began a countdown of the top 25 greatest books of all time, as part of a series called "25 for 25." In this episode, Jacke reveals the…
1 month, 4 weeks ago