Podcast Episodes
Back to Search168 Jhumpa Lahiri ("The Third and Final Continent")
What was it like to relocate from India to London to America in the early 1970s? And how can a daughter hope to recapture the experience of her fathe…
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167 F Scott Fitzgerald
What happens when the party is over? Can you ever truly escape your past? Jacke and Mike take a look at F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1931 story of g…
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166 Stephen King (with the Sisters of Slaughter)
STEPHEN KING (1947- ) was born in the northern state of Maine, where he has lived most of his life. For more than forty years, he has been the world'…
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165 Ezra Pound
EZRA POUND (1885-1972) was born in a small mining town in Idaho and died in Venice, Italy. In his eighty-seven years, he changed the face of American…
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164 Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818-1883) turned his early interest in literature and philosophy into a lifelong study of the socioeconomic forces unleashed by the rise …
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163 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with Sarah Bird)
Jacke welcomes author Sarah Bird to the program to talk about her background, her writing, and her readerly passion for the fiction of the great twen…
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161 Voltaire
Voltaire was born Francois Marie Arouet in 1694 in Paris, France, the son of a respectable but not particularly eminent lawyer. By the time he died a…
7 years, 8 months ago
160 Ray Bradbury (with Carolyn Cohagan)
Special guest Carolyn Cohagan, author of the Time Zero trilogy and founder of the creative writing workshop Girls with Pens, joins Jacke for a discus…
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159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)
Today, Herman Melville (1819-1891) is considered one of the greatest of American writers, and a leading candidate for THE American novelist thanks to…
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158 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
In the 1960s and '70s, the Vietnam War dominated the hearts and minds of a generation of Americans. In 1990, the American writer Tim O'Brien, himself…
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