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Back to Search559 Washington Irving | My Last Book with Joe Skinner
Episode 559
Jacke takes a look at "America's first Man of Letters," Washington Irving (1783-1859), most famous for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow…
2 years, 7 months ago
558 Black Nature Writing (with Erin Sharkey)
Episode 558
How do we humans experience nature? And how might we experience nature differently from one another? In this episode, Jacke talks to writer, film pro…
2 years, 7 months ago
557 Somerset Maugham (with Tan Twan Eng)
Episode 557
The English novelist, playwright, and short story writer Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) lived a life as eventful as his prodigious literary output. In …
2 years, 7 months ago
556 The Story Behind a Children's Classic - Anna Sewell and the Writing of 'Black Beauty' (with Celia Brayfield)
Episode 556
Born in 1820, the devout Quaker Anna Sewell was in her fifties - and terminally ill - when she decided to write a book that would change the way the …
2 years, 7 months ago
555 What Was Shakespeare Really Like? (with Sir Stanley Wells) | My Last Book with David Ellis
Episode 555
Shakespeare's plays and poetry are some of the most towering achievements in the history of humankind. What was Shakespeare the person like? How did …
2 years, 7 months ago
554 John Ashbery (with Jess Cotton) | My Last Book with David van den Berg
Episode 554
Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! After taking a look at Emily Dickinson's Poem #1 94 ("Title divine - is mine!"), Jacke talks to Cambridge University's Jess C…
2 years, 7 months ago
553 A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | My Last Book with Max Saunders
Episode 553
Jacke takes a look at "A Haunted House," Virginia Woolf's modernist ghost story. PLUS Ford Madox Ford biographer Max Saunders (Ford Madox Ford: A Cri…
2 years, 7 months ago
552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja)
Episode 552
Jacke talks to novelist Shilpi Suneja about her childhood in India, her discovery of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, and her new novel House of…
2 years, 8 months ago
551 Charlotte Lennox and The Female Quixote (Forgotten Women of Literature 8) | My Last Book with Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan
Episode 551
Jacke takes a look at the life and works of eighteenth-century novelist Charlotte Lennox, whose poetry, plays, novels, and criticism earned her the a…
2 years, 8 months ago
550 F Scott Fitzgerald (with Arthur Krystal) | My Last Book with Jed Rasula
Episode 550
Just who was F. Scott Fitzgerald? How do we make sense of his many different sides? In this episode, Jacke talks to biographer Arthur Krystal about h…
2 years, 8 months ago