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Episode 257
Continuing the "Shakespeare on Thursdays" theme for August, Jacke takes a look at Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds"), another on…
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TS Eliot | The Waste Land
Episode 256
In 1922, T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), an American living in England, published The Waste Land, widely viewed as perhaps the greatest and most iconic poem …
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Anna Karenina
Episode 254
In 1870, the 42-year-old Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) told his wife that he "wanted to write a novel about the fall of a society woman in t…
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The Brontes' Secret Scandal (with Finola Austin)
Episode 252
Novelist Finola Austin joins Jacke for a discussion of her new novel Bronte's Mistress, which provides a fascinating new perspective on one of litera…
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Beatrix Potter
Episode 251
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was a naturalist, a conservationist, and a highly successful children's book author and illustrator, whose stories of Pete…
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Stendhal
Episode 249
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and works of French author Stendhal (1783-1842), whose innovative novels The Red and the Black and Th…
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The History of Literature Presents: Storybound (with Mitchell S. Jackson)
Episode 248
The History of Literature presents some content from another Podglomerate podcast, Storybound. In this episode from Storybound's first season, author…
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Raymond Carver (with Tom Perrotta)
Episode 247
Novelist and screenwriter Tom Perrotta joins Jacke for a discussion of his blue collar New Jersey background, the cultural shock of attending Yale Un…
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Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron
Episode 246
As the Black Death swept through the city of Florence, Italian poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) began writing his classic tale of surv…
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Joyce Carol Oates (with Evie Lee)
Episode 245
Friend of the podcast Evie Lee joins Jacke to take a look at Joyce Carol Oates's classic short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (196…
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