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Back to Search391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 391
Mark Twain was an enormously successful writer and a horrendous businessperson, with a weakness for gadgets and inventions that cost him a fortune.. …
4 years, 2 months ago
390 Victor Hugo
Episode 390
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at Victor Hugo (1802-1885), whose poetry, plays, and novels made him one of the leaders of the nineteenth-century…
4 years, 2 months ago
389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson)
Episode 389
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now." Such is the opening of Thomas Pynchon's Gravit…
4 years, 2 months ago
388 Sense and Sensibility
Episode 388
"I am never too busy to think of S&S," Jane Austen wrote to her sister, referring to her 1811 novel by its initials, "I can no more forget it, than a…
4 years, 2 months ago
387 Loving Virginia Woolf | Fashion in Literature (with Lauren S. Cardon)
Episode 387
What's it like to be in love with a genius? How does one express oneself? Jacke takes a look at a beautiful 1926 love letter that Vita Sackville-West…
4 years, 2 months ago
386 Gogol's Ukrainian Nights | HOL Presents "Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript" (A Book Dreams Podcast)
Episode 386
Jacke takes a look at Nikolai Gogol's early stories about his native Ukraine, including two famous descriptions of Ukrainian nights. Then Jacke turns…
4 years, 3 months ago
385 The Gettysburg Address
Episode 385
In November of 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln boarded a train for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His heart was heavy with the cost of two years of a…
4 years, 3 months ago
384 A Writer's Tools - Top 10 Literary Terms and Devices | PLUS F. Scott Fitzgerald's Writing Advice
Episode 384
Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters' Club, joins Jacke to select the top 10 literary terms and devices of all time. PLUS Jack…
4 years, 3 months ago
383 The Radical Woman Who Wrote 'Goodnight Moon' - The Story of Margaret Wise Brown (with the New Yorker's Anna Holmes)
Episode 383
"Goodnight comb and goodnight brush...And goodnight to the old lady whispering hush...Goodnight moon.."
Telling the "story" of a darkening room at bed…
4 years, 3 months ago
382 Forbidden Victorian Love (with Mimi Matthews) | The Poet Who Hated Love | Does Margot Still Love Boswell and Johnson
Episode 382
Love is all around! On podcasts as well as holidays... In this episode, Jacke talks to USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews about her love for …
4 years, 3 months ago