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Back to Search323 Salman Rushdie
Episode 323
Salman Rushdie (1947- ) became famous in the literary world in 1981, when his second novel Midnight's Children became a bestseller and won the Booker…
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322 Djuna Barnes
Episode 322
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a journalist, an author, an artist, a poetic novelist, a beacon of modernism, an icon and an iconoclast. She was also a …
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321 Thucydides
Episode 321
Jacke and Mike take a look at the life and works of Thucydides (c. 460 to c. 400 B.C.), an Athenian general whose History of the Peloponnesian War ha…
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320 Henry James
Episode 320
Jacke takes a look at the life and works of American novelist Henry James (1843-1916).
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319 Frances (Fanny) Burney
Episode 319
She was admired by Dr. Johnson, revered by Jane Austen, and referred to as "the mother of English fiction" by Virginia Woolf. In this episode, Jacke …
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318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
Episode 318
Jacke hosts Jenny Minton Quigley, editor of the new collection LOLITA IN THE AFTERLIFE: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Sh…
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317 My Antonia by Willa Cather
Episode 309
Jacke continues this week's look at Willa Cather by zeroing in on the style and substance of My Antonia (1918), Cather's celebrated novel about Bohem…
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316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)
Episode 316
Willa Cather (1873-1947) went from a childhood in Nebraska to a career in publishing in New York City, where she became one of the most successful wo…
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315 Gabriel García Márquez and the Incredible and Sad (and Marvelous) World
Episode 315
Following our last episode with Patricia Engel, Jacke takes a closer look at Gabriel García Márquez, including his literary influences, his search fo…
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314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)
Episode 314
Author Patricia Engel joins Jacke to talk about her childhood in New Jersey, her artistic family, her lifelong love of stories and writing, her new n…
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