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Back to Search539 Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 539
Jacke and Mike take a look at the stormy Fitzgerald marriage and F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth novel, Tender Is the Night, which many consider to be h…
2 years, 9 months ago
538 Writing Our Extinction (with Patrick Whitmarsh) | My Last Book with Christina Jarvis
Episode 538
Jacke continues his Emily Dickinson series with a reading of Poem #32. Then Professor Patrick Whitmarsh stops by for a discussion of his new book Wri…
2 years, 9 months ago
537 The Persian Prince (with Hamid Dabashi)
Episode 537
Jacke talks to Professor Hamid Dabashi about his new book The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype, which replaces Mach…
2 years, 9 months ago
536 Literary New Orleans (with TR Johnson) | My Last Book with Len Webb and Vincent Williams
Episode 536
It's a trip to the Big Easy! The city of New Orleans is so famous for its music, its food, and its Mardi Gras mentality that it's sometimes overlooke…
2 years, 9 months ago
535 The Australian Novelist Who Writes History Through Women's Eyes (with Pip Williams)
Episode 535
Australia! After promising listeners an episode about Australia for years, Jacke FINALLY gets his act together - and luckily he has the perfect guest…
2 years, 10 months ago
534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
Episode 534
The hits keep coming at the History of Literature Podcast! In this episode, Jacke follows up on last week's episode on Crime and Punishment with a lo…
2 years, 10 months ago
533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead
Episode 533
It's another packed episode! First, Jacke talks to Langston Hughes scholars Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed about their new book, Langston Hughes in …
2 years, 10 months ago
532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Episode 532
"It is directly obvious," said Virginia Woolf after reading Crime and Punishment, "that [Dostoevsky] is the greatest writer ever born." In this episo…
2 years, 10 months ago
530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 530
Jacke and Mike discuss the life and works of novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023), who recently died of esophageal cancer. The son of writer Kingsley Ami…
2 years, 10 months ago
529 Ten Thousand Things and the Asian American Experience (with Shin Yu Pai) | My Last Book with Ross Benjamin
Episode 529
Jacke talks to Shin Yu Pai, currently the Civic Poet of Seattle, about her career as an artist and her podcast Ten Thousand Things, which explores a …
2 years, 10 months ago