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Episode 578
Nicholas Dames (The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century) started his latest project with a seemingly simple quest…
2 years, 5 months ago
Life and Art from FT Weekend: Books Books Books!
What books to buy for others? What books to read? In this guest episode from FT Weekend's Life and Art podcast, members of the Financial Times books …
2 years, 5 months ago
577 'Twas the Night Before Controversy - The Raging Dispute Over a Classic Christmas Poem | My Last Book (with Marion Turner)
Episode 577
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, not even a...FRAUD!?
In this episode, Jacke dives into the…
2 years, 5 months ago
576 Love and Art in a Time of Hate - How European Artists and Intellectuals Survived the 1930s (with Florian Illies)
Episode 576
Zelda and Scott, Henry and June and Anaïs, Jean-Paul and Simone, Vladimir and Vera... the names that ring out from the 1930s are those of some of the…
2 years, 5 months ago
575 A History of the Fool (with Peter Andersson) | My Last Book with Ed Simon
Episode 575
Shakespeare helped to make the Fool a common literary character. But what about the real-life fools who served in actual courts? Who were they and wh…
2 years, 5 months ago
574 The Book at War (with Andrew Pettegree) | My Last Book with Robin Lane Fox
Episode 574
Books are often viewed as the pinnacle of civilization; war, on the other hand, is where civilization breaks down. What happens when these two forces…
2 years, 5 months ago
573 A Conversation with Anne Enright, Winner of the Man Booker Prize | My Last Book with Christopher Morash
Episode 573
After taking a look at Emily Dickinson's Poem #269 ("Wild Nights - wild nights!"), Jacke talks to novelist Anne Enright about growing up in Ireland, …
2 years, 5 months ago
572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 572
Jacke reads "Odour of Chrysanthemums," D.H. Lawrence's story about a woman waiting for her husband, a coal miner, to come home. Then Mike Palindrome,…
2 years, 5 months ago
571 Shakespeare's White Others (with David Sterling Brown) | My Last Book with Shilpi Suneja
Episode 571
After discussing Emily Dickinson's Poem #259 ("A Clock stopped -"), Jacke talks to author David Sterling Brown about his new book Shakespeare's White…
2 years, 5 months ago
570 Pirates! (with Katharine Howe)
Episode 570
Jacke talks to bestselling author Katharine Howe (editor of The Penguin Book of Pirates) about her new novel, A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn…
2 years, 6 months ago