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Back to Search569 The Man with a Passion for Medieval Manuscripts (with Christopher de Hamel) | My Last Book with Maaheen Ahmed
Episode 569
Jacke talks to British academic librarian Christopher de Hamel about his passion for medieval manuscripts and his new book The Manuscripts Club: The …
2 years, 6 months ago
568 The Tempest (with Laurie Frankel)
Episode 568
Jacke celebrates autumn with a look at Shakespeare's Sonnet #73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold"), then welcomes novelist Laurie Frankel …
2 years, 6 months ago
567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zipes
Episode 567
Your wish is our command! Jacke talks to listener-nominated "dream guest" Dr. Jessica Kirzane about her work with Yiddish literature, including her r…
2 years, 6 months ago
566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards)
Episode 566
Jacke talks to Adrian Edwards, the lead curator of the British Library's Printed Heritage Collections, about the new book Shakespeare's First Folio: …
2 years, 6 months ago
565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with Honor Cargill-Martin
Episode 565
It was an era known as the Golden Age of Rome, when the republic-turned-empire became the wealthiest and most formidable state in the history of huma…
2 years, 6 months ago
564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter)
Episode 564
Jacke talks to scholar and biographer Lara Vetter (H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)) about the life and works of modernist poet and avant-garde woman Hilda Dol…
2 years, 6 months ago
563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)
Episode 563
Jacke talks to "serial biographer" Carl Rollyson (The Last Days of Sylvia Plath, The Life of William Faulkner) about his new book, Sylvia Plath: Day …
2 years, 6 months ago
562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman)
Episode 562
Jacke starts the show with a listener email and a look at Emily Dickinson's Poem #238 ("How many times these low feet staggered - "). THEN author Myr…
2 years, 6 months ago
561 Homer and His Iliad (with Robin Lane Fox) | A Quick Hit of Witches (with Katherine Howe)
Episode 561
Who was Homer? And why, all these years later, do we still read his Iliad? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Robin Lane Fox (Homer and His Iliad…
2 years, 7 months ago
560 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Episode 560
It's the early nineteenth century, and the moon is bright, the Hudson Valley forests are full of shadows, and a lonely schoolteacher heads home on hi…
2 years, 7 months ago