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Back to Search351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva)
Episode 351
The writer, philosopher, and trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft is perhaps best known as the mother of the author of Frankenstein, but this am…
4 years, 7 months ago
350 Mystery! (with Jonah Lehrer)
Episode 350
Mysteries! Beloved by adults and children alike, it's hard to imagine a genre with a more universal appeal. But what makes mysteries so compelling? W…
4 years, 7 months ago
349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)
Episode 349
A special guest stops by to help Jacke talk about life, literature, and one of the world's great masterpieces: The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Hop…
4 years, 7 months ago
348 Philip Roth (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 348
As a child growing up in Newark, New Jersey in the 1930s and 40s, Philip Milton Roth (1933-2018) never thought about being a writer. By the time he d…
4 years, 8 months ago
347 The Prisoner and His Prize - The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
Episode 347
William Sidney Porter (1862-1910) packed a lot of life into his 47 years, traveling from a childhood in North Carolina to work as a rancher and bank …
4 years, 8 months ago
346 For Whom the Beast Leaps (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 3)
Episode 364
John Marcher has been waiting all his life for something rare and strange to happen to him - something that will leap out of the darkness and attack …
4 years, 8 months ago
345 Great Literary Centuries (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 345
How's literature doing these days? Does the twenty-first century look as good for literature as the nineteenth did? How about the seventeenth? And th…
4 years, 8 months ago
344 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Beast (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 2)
Episode 344
A man has lived his life convinced that something rare and strange lies in wait for him - a monumental catastrophe that has never happened to anyone …
4 years, 9 months ago
343 The Feast in the Jungle (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 1)
Episode 343
Squirrel-voiced waiter-host Jacke Wilson invites his listeners to a literary feast! In this episode, Jacke takes a look at Henry James's long-short-s…
4 years, 9 months ago
342 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (with Laura Marsh)
Episode 342
In the aftermath of World War II, author Graham Greene was in personal and professional agony. His marriage was on the rocks, his soul was struggling…
4 years, 9 months ago