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Back to Search439 Poets' Guide to Economics (with John Ramsden)
Episode 439
Sure, we know poets are experts in subjects like love, death, nightingales, and moonlight. But what about money? Isn't that a little...beneath them? …
3 years, 8 months ago
438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 438
In 1922, a writer for the Observer commented: "No book has been more eagerly and curiously awaited by the strange little inner circle of book-lovers …
3 years, 9 months ago
437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
Episode 437
Responding to a listener email, a heartbroken Jacke takes a close look at Emily Dickinson's astonishing poem "A Bird, came down the Walk."
Additio…
3 years, 9 months ago
The History of Literature Presents: Missing Pages
Episode 437
Today, we’d like to introduce you to the new podcast from The Podglomerate, Missing Pages. Missing Pages is an all-new investigative podcast hosted b…
3 years, 9 months ago
436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)
Episode 436
He was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904, but in the next 87 years, the world came to know and love him by his pen name, Dr. Seuss. Best known for hi…
3 years, 9 months ago
435 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 2 - The Virginia Woolf Story That Changed Everything
Episode 435
In our last episode, we looked at the decision by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard to purchase a printing press and run it out of their home. W…
3 years, 9 months ago
434 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 1 - Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story
Episode 434
Virginia Woolf has long been celebrated as a supremely gifted novelist and essayist. Less well known, but important to understanding her life and con…
3 years, 9 months ago
433 Emma's Pick - "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
Episode 433
Is this the greatest man vs. nature story ever? Hard to say. But it just might be the purest.
Kicking off a new HOL feature, producer Emma chooses a s…
3 years, 9 months ago
432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)
Episode 432
"All you have to do is write one true sentence," Ernest Hemingway said in A Moveable Feast. "Write the truest sentence that you know." And so he did:…
3 years, 9 months ago
431 Langston Hughes
Episode 431
Very few writers have had the influence or importance of Langston Hughes (1902?-1967). Best known for poems like "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, To…
3 years, 9 months ago