Podcast Episodes
Back to Search528 Literary Dublin (with Chris Morash) | A Poem by Shin Yu Pai | My Last Book with John Higgs
Episode 528
"The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us." Exploring this sy…
2 years, 10 months ago
527 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (with Elizabeth Winkler) | My Last Book with Megan Marshall
Episode 527
In 2019, journalist Elizabeth Winkler wrote an article for the Atlantic, in which she asked whether Shakespeare's plays might have been written by so…
2 years, 10 months ago
526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
Episode 525
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an American author who was, by his reckoning, seven-eighths white, though he identified as black. Rejecting the o…
2 years, 11 months ago
525 Don DeLillo (with Jesse Kavadlo)
Episode 525
Don DeLillo (White Noise, Underworld) is a writer's writer's writer. Often called one of the most important novelists of the late twentieth and early…
2 years, 11 months ago
524 Growing Old with The Graduate - Mike Nichols, Roger Ebert, Charles Webb, and Me
Episode 524
The Graduate, a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols and based on a novel by Charles Webb, introduced the world to actor Dustin Hoffman and became one …
2 years, 11 months ago
523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)
Episode 523
Thanks mostly to the achievement and success of his Canterbury Tales, poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s-1400) has been called "the Father of English li…
2 years, 11 months ago
522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino
Episode 522
In the late nineteenth century, a popular magazine ran a cartoon with what it called "a race problem." Tensions between black and white Americans in …
2 years, 11 months ago
521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
Episode 521
The empress Messalina, third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, was a ruthless, sexually insatiable schemer - or was she? But while the stories abou…
2 years, 11 months ago
520 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
Episode 520
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. called it, simply, the greatest American short story. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at Ambrose Bierce and his masterpiece, "A…
2 years, 11 months ago
519 Shakespeare's First Folio (with Emma Smith) | My Last Book with Luke Parker
Episode 519
The compilation of Shakespeare's plays known as the First Folio is one of the most important books in the history of literature. In this episode, Jac…
2 years, 11 months ago