Podcast Episodes
Back to Search157 Travel Books (with Mike Palindrome)
"The world is a book," said Augustine, "and those who do not travel read only one page." But what about books ABOUT traveling? Do they double the ple…
7 years, 9 months ago
155 Plato
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition,” said Alfred North Whitehead, “is that it consists of a series of footn…
7 years, 9 months ago
154 John Milton
John Milton (1608 - 1674) was a revolutionary, a republican, an iconoclast, a reformer, and a brilliant polemicist, who fearlessly took on both churc…
7 years, 10 months ago
153 Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. In his 58 years he went from a hardscrabble childhood to a wo…
7 years, 10 months ago
152 George Sand
George Sand wrote an astonishing number of novels and plays, and had friendships and affairs with an astonishing range of men and women. She dressed …
7 years, 10 months ago
151 Viking Poetry - The Voluspa (with Noah Tetzner)
The Vikings! Sure, they had helmets and hammers, but did they also have... poetry? Indeed they did! In this episode, we talk to Noah Tetzner, host of…
7 years, 10 months ago
150 Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog"
It's a deceptively simple story: a man and a woman meet, have an affair, are separated, and reunite. And yet, in writing about Anton Chekhov's story,…
7 years, 10 months ago
149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World)
Jacke and Mike respond to an email from a listener who is about to become a father and wondering about the role of literature in the life of a young …
7 years, 11 months ago
148 Great Literary Hoaxes
What can we count on? What do we know is true? In this episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at a motley crew of inventive liars who set out to foo…
7 years, 11 months ago
147 Leo Tolstoy
When asked to name the three greatest novels ever written, William Faulkner replied, “Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina.” Nabokov said, “Wh…
7 years, 11 months ago