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Back to Search178 "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (with Evie Lee)
In this episode, we take a look at the classic twentieth-century American short story, "The Lottery" (1948) by Shirley Jackson. Why did it cause such…
7 years, 3 months ago
177 Sherwood Anderson (with Alyson Hagy)
One hundred years ago, a collection of short stories by a little-known author from Ohio burst onto the literary scene, causing a minor scandal for th…
7 years, 4 months ago
176 William Carlos Williams (The Use of Force)
Today, the American modernist poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is famous among poetry fans for his vivid, economical poems like "The Red Whee…
7 years, 4 months ago
175 Virgin Whore - The Virgin Mary in Medieval Literature and Culture (with Professor Emma Maggie Solberg)
Today, we know the Virgin Mary as quiet, demure, and (above all) chaste, but this wasn't always the way she was understood or depicted. In her new bo…
7 years, 4 months ago
174 David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Special!)
Ask and ye shall receive! It's an all-Mike episode devoted entirely to one of his literary heroes, David Foster Wallace. Enjoy!
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7 years, 4 months ago
173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)
Happy new year! Host Jacke Wilson is joined by special guest Evie Lee, a vice-president at the Literature Supporters Club, for a conversation about t…
7 years, 5 months ago
172 Holiday Movies (with Brian Price)
Seasons Greetings! In this episode, Jacke attempts to recover from last week's gloominess with something lighter and cheerier: a trip to the movies! …
7 years, 5 months ago
171 To Sleep Perchance to Dream - On Writers and Death
"To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come..." In these immortal lines, …
7 years, 5 months ago
170 Toni Morrison
TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) is one of the most successful and admired authors in the history of American literature. Her novels include The Bluest Eye (1…
7 years, 5 months ago
169 Dostoevsky
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) was, in the estimation of James Joyce, “the man more than any other who has created modern prose.” “Outside Shakespeare…
7 years, 6 months ago