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Back to SearchThe Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino | The African Library Project
Episode 221
Another special quarantine edition! In this action-packed episode, Jacke talks to Robyn Speed and Tatiana Santos of the African Library Project (afri…
6 years, 1 month ago
A Lost Spring (with Professor Mitchell Nathanson)
Episode 220
Professor Mitchell Nathanson, author of Jim Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, joins Jacke for a discussion of athletes, heroes, and A.E. Housm…
6 years, 1 month ago
After Rain by William Trevor
Episode 219
William Trevor was born in Ireland in 1928. When he was 26, he moved to England, where for the next 62 years he quietly became one of the most celebr…
6 years, 1 month ago
Extra by Yiyun Li
Episode 217
Yiyun Li (1972- ) was born in Beijing, China, the daughter of a teacher and a nuclear physicist. She dreamed of studying in America, hoping to escape…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Episode 216
In 1773, Phillis Wheatley became the first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in the English language. It was yet another milestone…
6 years, 2 months ago
Kate Chopin
Episode 215
From within the quarantine, Jacke travels to 1893 and the Louisiana bayou, where he finds Kate Chopin, pioneering feminist and author of the classic …
6 years, 2 months ago
Kipling, Kingsley, and Conan Doyle - When Writers Go to War (with Sarah LeFanu)
Episode 214
In early 1900, the paths of three British writers - Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley, and Arthur Conan Doyle - crossed in South Africa, during what has…
6 years, 2 months ago
Special Quarantine Edition - Gusev by Anton Chekhov
Episode 213
More bonus content! For those of you living in isolation (and those of you who aren't), Jacke explores the depths of the human condition - as well as…
6 years, 2 months ago
Special Quarantine Edition - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Episode 212
As the world deals with a pandemic, we turn to one of America's greatest (and least appreciated) writers, Katherine Anne Porter, and her masterpiece,…
6 years, 2 months ago
Edith Wharton
Episode 211
“There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major',” said Gore Vidal. “And Edith Wharton is one.” In this episode, Jac…
6 years, 2 months ago