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Back to Search331 "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth
Episode 331
As the world struggles to emerge from a global pandemic, Jacke takes a look at our relationship with nature, turning to William Wordsworth's classic …
4 years, 11 months ago
330 Middlemarch (with Yang Huang)
Episode 330
Yang Huang, author of the new novel My Good Son, joins Jacke for a discussion of her childhood in China, how censorship restricted her ability to ima…
4 years, 11 months ago
329 Miguel de Cervantes
Episode 329
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a soldier, a civil servant, a playwright, and a poet. He was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner for almost fi…
4 years, 11 months ago
328 Aristophanes (with Aaron Poochigian)
Episode 328
Often called the Father of Comedy, the satirical playwright Aristophanes (c. 450 BCE - 388 BCE) used his critical eye and sharp tongue to skewer poli…
5 years ago
327 Natalia Ginzburg
Episode 327
Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) lived a fascinating life full of politics, war, exile, tragedy, love, loss, and literature. In her novels…
5 years ago
HoL Presents The REAL Little Women (from the Book Dreams Podcast)
In this special guest episode, scholar Anne Boyd Rioux joins Eve and Julie, the hosts of the Book Dreams podcast, to talk about why the Little Women …
5 years ago
326 Rimbaud
Episode 326
Jacke takes a look at the astonishing life and writings of the ultimate enfant terrible of poetry, Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), Symbolist p…
5 years ago
325 Philip Larkin
Episode 325
During his life, Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a beloved national figure, a bald and bespectacled librarian by day who spent his evenings writing sma…
5 years ago
HoL Presents The Graduate (from the Overdue Podcast)
The Graduate! Dustin Hoffman! Mike Nichols! Simon and Garfunkel! Mrs. Robinson! Plastics! Elaaaaaaaaine....
The movie version of The Graduate is one o…
5 years ago
324 Ralph Ellison | Blocked! (Top 10 Cases of Writer's Block)
Episode 324
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1913-1994) began life as an infant in Oklahoma City and ended it as one of the most successful and celebrated novelists in the w…
5 years ago