Podcast Episodes
Back to Search313 "Spring Snow" (from The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima
Episode 313
After taking a look at the eventful life and dramatic death of Yukio Mishima in our last episode, Jacke turns to a closer look at the works of Mishim…
5 years, 2 months ago
312 Yukio Mishima
Episode 312
In November of 1970, the most famous novelist in Japan dropped off the final pages of his masterpiece with his publisher, then went to a military off…
5 years, 3 months ago
311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
Episode 311
Jacke takes a look at adult literacy and continuing education, anti-literacy laws in nineteenth-century America, and two famous passages from the Nar…
5 years, 3 months ago
309 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (a Storybound project)
Episode 309
The History of Literature presents a short story by Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, produced by Storybound. PLUS! In pre…
5 years, 3 months ago
308 New Westerns (with Anna North)
Episode 308
Anna North, author and journalist, joins us for a full discussion of the Western genre, how twenty-first-century authors have revived the form with m…
5 years, 3 months ago
306 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian)
Episode 306
In 1819, John Keats quit his job as an assistant surgeon, abandoned an epic poem he was writing, and focused his poetic energies on shorter works. Wh…
5 years, 3 months ago
305 The Remains of the Day
Episode 305
Following up on the recommendation of our guest Chigozie Obioma, Jacke takes a closer look at Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day, includin…
5 years, 3 months ago
304 Kazuo Ishiguro (with Chigozie Obioma)
Episode 304
In this episode, we talk to Chigozie Obioma, whom the New York Times has called "the heir to Chinua Achebe." We discuss his childhood in Nigeria, his…
5 years, 4 months ago
303 The Search for Darcy - Jane Austen, Tom Lefroy, and the World of Pride and Prejudice
Episode 303
In our last episode, we examined the evidence of Jane Austen's 1795-96 dalliance with her "Irish friend," the gentlemanlike (but impoverished) young …
5 years, 4 months ago
302 Jane in Love - The Story of Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy
Episode 302
In the Christmas holidays of 1795-96, a young Irishman named Thomas Lefroy left his legal studies in London to visit some relatives who lived in the …
5 years, 4 months ago