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Back to Search361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)
Episode 361
Feeling grateful, Jacke rummages through the literary storage trunk to find works on gratitude by five poets and essayists: Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo…
4 years, 6 months ago
360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel) | Tolstoy's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
Episode 160
It's a good day for cooking! First up: Scott Carter, author of the play Discord: The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count…
4 years, 6 months ago
359 Forgotten Women of Literature 6 - Eliza Haywood and Fantomina | PLUS Keats's Letter on Shakespeare and "Negative Capability"
Episode 359
During her stormy and mysterious life, Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the most prolific writers in England. Her "amatory fictions" were unapol…
4 years, 6 months ago
358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) | Charles Dickens's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
Episode 358
In her new book Read Until You Understand, beloved professor Farah Jasmine Griffin entwines memoir, history, and art in exploring the culture of Blac…
4 years, 6 months ago
357 Little Women Remixed (with Bethany C. Morrow) | Thomas Jefferson's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
Episode 357
It's a literary feast! National bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow joins Jacke for a discussion of her novel So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Rem…
4 years, 6 months ago
356 Louisa May Alcott
Episode 356
"I could not write a girls' story," Louisa May Alcott protested after a publisher made a specific request that she do so, "knowing little about any b…
4 years, 6 months ago
355 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Episode 355
Brilliant and contentious, the Swiss-born political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (`1712-1768) is one of the key figures of the Enlightenment, wi…
4 years, 6 months ago
354 Treasure Island Remixed (with C.B. Lee)
Episode 354
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure Treasure Island gave the world a number of familiar pirate tropes, like parrots on shoulders and X marks t…
4 years, 7 months ago
353 Oscar Wilde in Prison (with Scott Carter)
Episode 353
Even the best biographical depictions of Oscar Wilde often skip over the years he spent in prison, perhaps because the episode is so sad and painful.…
4 years, 7 months ago
352 Charles Baudelaire (with Aaron Poochigian)
Episode 352
The American poet Dana Gioia calls Charles Baudelaire "the first modern poet," adding "In both style and content, his provocative, alluring, and shoc…
4 years, 7 months ago