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Back to Search469 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (with Gina Buonaguro)
Episode 469
Since its publication in 1908, E.M. Forster's classic novel A Room with a View, which tells the story of a young Englishwoman who finds a romantic ad…
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468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell)
Episode 468
In 1886, the twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was practicing medicine, supporting his family, falling in and out love, writing pieces for newspapers…
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467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
Episode 467
In 2022, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land turned 100 years old - and it's hard to imagine a poem with a more explosive impact or a more enduring influence…
3 years, 5 months ago
466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)
When novelist Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, the planet lost one of its most creative and compelling voices. In this episode, Jacke talks to Vonnegut sc…
3 years, 5 months ago
465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober)
Episode 465
Game theory as a mathematical discipline has been around since the Cold War, but as Professor Josiah Ober (The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery…
3 years, 5 months ago
464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years
Episode 464
Following up on Episode 446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years, Jacke takes a look at the final five years of Percy Bysshe Shelley's life, from 1…
3 years, 6 months ago
463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)
Episode 463
Sigmund Freud once said of the philosopher and cultural critic Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) that "he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself t…
3 years, 6 months ago
462 My Last Book (with Laurie Frankel)
Episode 462
The question stopped Jacke in his tracks. "Dear Jacke," said the emailer. "What do you want your "last book" to be? This will be the last book you wi…
3 years, 6 months ago
461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)
Episode 461
Pulitzer-Prize-winning literary biographer Megan Marshall joins Jacke to discuss the book that was twenty years in the making: The Peabody Sisters: T…
3 years, 6 months ago
460 Rabindranath Tagore
Episode 460
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and works of the legendary Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Central to what became kno…
3 years, 6 months ago