Podcast Episodes
Back to Search618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon
Episode 618
Women haven't always been given an equal chance to contribute to literature - but they were writing nevertheless, sometimes just for themselves. In t…
1 year, 11 months ago
617 Politics and Grace in Early Modern Literature (with Deni Kasa) | Mike Recommends... James Baldwin! | My Last Book with Carlos Allende
Episode 617
Early modern poets - John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, Abraham Cowley - lived in a world where theological questions were as hotly contest…
1 year, 11 months ago
616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai
Episode 616
The relationship between literature and "madwomen" has deep roots. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Suzanne Scanlon (Committed: On Meaning and …
1 year, 11 months ago
615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed
Episode 615
What a treat! First, Jacke talks to Nicholson Baker, an author he's been reading for the past three decades, about Finding a Likeness: How I Got Some…
1 year, 11 months ago
614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke
Episode 614
Families can provide wonderful material for a writer, but they can also be tricky to navigate. How do you make your stories of home interesting to ot…
1 year, 11 months ago
613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel
Episode 613
Books are beloved objects, earning lots of praise as amazing pieces of technology and essential contributors to a civilized society. And yet, we ofte…
1 year, 11 months ago
612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus
Episode 612
Fearless and fiercely intelligent, the nineteenth-century American feminist Margaret Fuller was "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcend…
1 year, 11 months ago
611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter
Scottish writer John Buchan is perhaps best known for his pioneering thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, the source material for one of Alfred Hitchcock'…
2 years ago
610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James MacManus
Episode 610
Why do we read John Keats and not one of his well-regarded peers? Why do some authors disappear into the sands of time - while others, virtually unkn…
2 years ago
609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Dabashi
Dear listeners: What kind of life are you living? What's your relationship between your body, mind, and soul? And what can you learn about your deepe…
2 years ago