Podcast Episodes

279 Jean Rhys

Episode 279

Jacke takes a look at the life and works of Jean Rhys (1890-1979), whose masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), reimagined Jane Eyre from the point of…

5 years, 6 months ago

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278 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)

Episode 264

In this special Halloween episode, Jacke and Evie take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's great revenge story, "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846), written whe…

5 years, 7 months ago

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277 George Orwell

Episode 277

George Orwell (1903-1950) was one of the twentieth century's great literary figures. An English novelist, who also excelled at essays and journalism,…

5 years, 7 months ago

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276 Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Detective Story | "The Purloined Letter"

Episode 276

In 1965, the critic Joseph Wood Krutch studied the available evidence and came to a surprising conclusion. "Edgar Allan Poe," he wrote, "invented the…

5 years, 7 months ago

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275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford)

Episode 275

Professor Richard Bradford, author of the new biography The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway, joins Jacke to talk about Hemingway's u…

5 years, 7 months ago

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274 Baudelaire and the Flowers of Evil

Episode 274

He was "the king of poets," said Rimbaud, "a true God." T. S. Eliot called him a deformed Dante and said, “I am an English poet of American origin wh…

5 years, 7 months ago

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273 The Book for Book Lovers - The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book (with Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley)

Episode 256

Authors Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley join Jacke to talk about their new book for book lovers, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book: An Interactive Guid…

5 years, 7 months ago

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272 "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)

Episode 272

Evie Lee, a Vice President of the Literature Supporters Club, joins Jacke for a look at Poe's classic doppelgänger story, "William Wilson" (1839).

He…

5 years, 7 months ago

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271 "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Solo Special!)

Episode 271

It's another much-anticipated, often-requested Mike Palindrome Solo Episode! In this special installment of The History of Literature Podcast, Jacke …

5 years, 7 months ago

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270 Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat"

Episode 270

In 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, desperate for money and terrified that his wife was about to die, "became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." …

5 years, 8 months ago

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