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Back to Search498 A New Novel by a Legendary Independent Filmmaker (with John Sayles)
Episode 498
Jacke talks to legendary independent filmmaker John Sayles (Lone Star, Passion Fish) about his new novel Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey, …
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497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Episode 497
By any measure, the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War has had an astonishing literary history, proving itself over two and a half mill…
3 years, 2 months ago
496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner)
The Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers from Shakespeare to James Joyce…
3 years, 2 months ago
495 The Creative Spark (with Joe Skinner)
Episode 495
How do today's masters create their art? In this episode, Jacke talks to Joe Skinner, producer and host of the podcast American Masters: Creative Spa…
3 years, 2 months ago
494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
Episode 494
In a final powerful book, acclaimed literary biographer Robert Richardson told the story of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William…
3 years, 2 months ago
493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate
Episode 493
He loved and he hated. Other than that, not much is known about the life of Catullus, who scandalized the late Roman Republic with his bawdy poems, h…
3 years, 2 months ago
492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
Episode 492
After the October Revolution in 1917, a teenaged Vladimir Nabokov and his family, part of the Russian nobility, sought exile in Western Europe, event…
3 years, 2 months ago
491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
Episode 491
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and celebrated poets. In this episode, Jacke talks to Pulitzer Priz…
3 years, 2 months ago
Introducing YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER
Introducing YE GODS from producer-playwright and frequent guest of History of Literature, Scott Carter. We all know that faith and ethics are recurri…
3 years, 3 months ago
490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)
Episode 490
Jacke talks to Edgar Award-winning novelist, Tony Award-winning playwright, and legendary story songwriter Rupert Holmes about writing pop song landm…
3 years, 3 months ago