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Back to Search608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Gareth Russell
First published in 1980, Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the twentieth century. But the book, wi…
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607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My Last Book with Edward Chamberlin
Episode 607
Can novelists make a difference in the world? Of course we know they can - we've seen plenty of examples. But how does it happen? And what are the ch…
2 years ago
606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe)
Episode 606
Why do we fall in love? Why do we fall out of love? And how can literature shape the way we travel these emotional and romantic landscapes? In this e…
2 years ago
605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)
Episode 605
She's been called Scandinavia's best loved author - but "author" only begins to describe Tove Jansson's genius. Famous worldwide as the creator of th…
2 years ago
604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol
Episode 604
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov... the familiar Russian names are at the pinnacle of world literature. How did this happen? Was it merely a happy accide…
2 years, 1 month ago
603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)
Episode 603
Born more than two centuries ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson has long been recognized as a giant of nineteenth-century American letters. But what can he off…
2 years, 1 month ago
602 Thomas Hardy's "Spellbound Palace," The Birthplace of the King James Bible, and a Royal Setting for Shakespeare and His Plays (with Gareth Russell) | My Last Book with Jess Cotton
Episode 602
We humans imprint ourselves on our surroundings - and they, in turn, have the power to affect us. In this episode, Jacke talks to Gareth Russell (The…
2 years, 1 month ago
601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)
Episode 601
It's the start of a new hundred episodes! Fresh off her tour for her new novel The Road from Belhaven, superguest Margot Livesey joins Jacke for a di…
2 years, 1 month ago
600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes)
Episode 600
It's another milestone for the History of Literature Podcast! Jacke celebrates the six hundredth episode of the podcast with a return to one of his o…
2 years, 1 month ago
599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown
Episode 599
While avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky might be most famous for the wildly ambitious version of Dune that never got made - in spite of havi…
2 years, 1 month ago