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493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate
9 maart 2023 · 51 min
He loved and he hated. Other than that, not much is known about the life of Catullus, who scandalized the late Roman Republic with his bawdy poems, his aching love for the upper-class married woman he called "Lesbia," and his invective against Julius Caesar and other Roman notables. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and works of Catullus, whose poetry was lost for a thousand years, but which, once recovered, became highly influential among poets for its accomplished technique and urgent intimacy.
Additional listening: Lees meer93 Robert Frost Finds a Friend
Ezra Pound
4 Sappho
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492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
6 maart 2023 · 1 uur
After the October Revolution in 1917, a teenaged Vladimir Nabokov and his family, part of the Russian nobility, sought exile in Western Europe, eventually settling in Berlin, where Vladimir lived for fifteen years. His life then included some politics, some writing and translating, some recreational pursuits - and a lot of trips to the cinema, a burgeoning art form and cultural experience that fascinated him. In this episode, Jacke talks to Luke Parker about this period of Nabokov's life, as explored in Luke's book Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
112 The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor - Unpacking Nabokov's Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris)
96 Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard)
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491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
2 maart 2023 · 53 min
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and celebrated poets. In this episode, Jacke talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall about her personal connection to Bishop, as well as her book Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast.
MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark)
176 William Carlos Williams (The Use of Force)
306 John Keats (with Anahid Nersessian)
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Introducing YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER
1 maart 2023 · 26 min
Introducing YE GODS from producer-playwright and frequent guest of History of Literature, Scott Carter. We all know that faith and ethics are recurring themes in literature from Greek mythology to Shakespeare, to the great Russian novels, Charles Dickens, Emiliy Dickinson and everything between and after.
In this new podcast series, YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER takes us on a pilgrimage of sorts, each week he’ll be talking to celebrity guests like historian Ken Burns, actor Susie Essman from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright Anna Deavere Smith, neuroscientist-philosopher Sam Harris and others.
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490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)
27 februari 2023 · 52 min
Jacke talks to Edgar Award-winning novelist, Tony Award-winning playwright, and legendary story songwriter Rupert Holmes about writing pop song landmarks ("Escape (The Piña Colada Song))," Broadway whodunit musicals (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), and his new book Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide.
RUPERT HOLMES has received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and multiple Tony® and Drama Desk Awards for his Broadway mystery musicals, including the book of Curtains and his sole creation, the Tony® Award–winning Best Musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His first novel, Where the Truth Lies, was nominated for a Nero Wolfe award for Best American Mystery Novel, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut Novel, and became a motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. His second novel, Swing, was the first novel with its own original, clue-bearing musical score. He has adapted Agatha Christie, John Grisham, and R.L. Stine for the Broadway and international stage. His short stories have been anthologized in such collections as Best American Mystery Stories, Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop,and On a Raven’s Wing. Holmes’s earliest story-songs were published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and he is also the writer/vocalist of several Billboard Top 10 hits, including his Billboard #1 multi-platinum classic with a memorable twist-ending: “Escape (The Pina Colada Song).”
Additional Listening Suggestions: Lees meer350 Mystery! (with Jonah Lehrer)
109 Women of Mystery (with Christina Kovac)
99 History and Mystery (with Radha Vatsal)
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489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
23 februari 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself," said the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), "but it is impossible to find it anywhere else." In spite of his pessimism - or perhaps because of it - Schopenhauer, who was virtually unknown until the last few years of his life, went on to influence generations of writers, artists, philosophers, and composers. In this episode, Jacke looks at the life, legacy, and worldview of this darkest of men, including some thoughts on what it feels like to read Schopenhauer today.
Additional reading: Lees meer463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)
155 Plato
465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Josiah Ober)
164 Karl Marx
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488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)
20 februari 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Jacke talks to "serial biographer" Carl Rollyson about his new two-volume biography of William Faulkner, The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 (Volume 1) and The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 (Volume 2).
CARL ROLLYSON, Professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York, has published more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and Jill Craigie to studies of American culture, genealogy, children's biography, film, and literary criticism.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meerWilliam Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner - Dry September
Baldwin v. Faulkner
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487 Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche (with John Higgs)
16 februari 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
On October 5, 1962, two items were released, hardly newsworthy at the time. One was Dr. No, the first James Bond film, and the other was Love Me Do, the first Beatles recording. Over the next sixty years, both Bond and the Beatles would become cultural juggernauts, with a reach and influence so vast that they can be hard to fathom. What have those twin phenomena meant to the British psyche? And what have they meant for the rest of the world? In this episode, Jacke talks to author John Higgs about his book Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer416 William Blake vs. the World (with John Higgs)
380 Ian Fleming | PLUS The Black James Bond
444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan)
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486 The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (with Melissa J. Homestead)
13 februari 2023 · 57 min
What was Willa Cather's life really like? Was she - as is often thought - a solitary artist, painstakingly crafting her novels about the Great Plains? Or did she actually have a robust creative partnership with another woman, Edith Lewis, which was downplayed at the time and for decades afterward? In this episode, Jacke talks to Melissa J. Homestead about her book, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis, which sheds new light on the life and works of a great twentieth century novelist. Lees meer
Additional listening suggestions:
316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)
317 My Antonía by Willa Cather
308 New Westerns (with Anna North)
Music Credits:
“Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA).
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485 Reading Pleasures - Everyday Black Living in Early America (with Dr Tara Bynum)
9 februari 2023 · 48 min
"In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also brought pleasure."
In this episode, Jacke talks to Dr. Tara A. Bynum about her new book, Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America, which finds the "joyous, if messy, humanity" in the lives and works of four canonical Black writers from the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meerThe Trials of Phillis Wheatley
358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin)
291 The Book of Firsts (with Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal)
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484 Reading John Milton (with Stephen Dobranski)
6 februari 2023 · 54 min
John Milton is often regarded as second only to Shakespeare in the history of English verse - and his epic poem, Paradise Lost, is viewed by many as second to none. His literary achievements are all the more remarkable when one considers the formidable political and personal obstacles Milton faced. In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Stephen Dobranski about his new book, Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times.
Additional listening: Lees meer154 John Milton
376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)
91 In Which John Donne Decides to Write a Poem About a Flea
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483 Margaret Fuller (with Megan Marshall)
2 februari 2023 · 58 min
In her lifetime, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was widely acknowledged as the best read person - male or female - in New England. Her landmark work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, is considered the first full-length treatment of women's rights in North America. After finding success as an author, scholar, educator, editor, translator, journalist, and host of a famous series of "conversations," she tragically died at the age of 40 in a sea accident off the coast of Fire Island, New York. In this episode, Jacke talks to Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Megan Marshall about her book, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.
Additional listening: Lees meer461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)
351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva)
356 Louisa May Alcott
111 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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482 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part Two)
30 januari 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
Is Moby-Dick truly the Great American Novel? How did contemporary critics miss it? When (and how) was the book rediscovered? Jacke goes through all this and more, as he continues the countdown of Top 10 Essential Questions about Herman Melville's 1851 masterpiece.
Additional listening: Lees meer481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
474 Herman Melville
159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)
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481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
26 januari 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
Here we go! Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851) by Herman Melville is one of the greatest - and strangest - novels you will ever read. Call it what you will - a literary leviathan, an intellectual chowder, an early entry in the Great American Novel sweepstakes - or don't call it anything, just call the narrator Ishmael and climb aboard! In this episode, Jacke counts down 10 Essential Questions regarding Melville's (white) whale of a book.
Additional listening: Lees meer474 Herman Melville
159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)
110 Heart of Darkness - Then and Now
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480 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (with Ritchie Robertson)
23 januari 2023 · 57 min
In 1878, critic Matthew Arnold wrote, "Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man." In this episode, Jacke talks to Ritchie Robertson, author of Goethe: A Very Short Introduction, about the life and works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and supreme literary writer in a vast variety of genres.
Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German in the University of Oxford. He is the author of The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents (OUP, 1999), Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine (OUP, 2009), and Kafka; A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2004). He has translated several German authors into English for the Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics series, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2004.
Additional listening: Lees meer463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)
George Eliot
111 The Americanest American - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb)
19 januari 2023 · 54 min
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets - and also one of the most engaged. As he struggled to make sense of the rise of fascism, two world wars, and industrialized murder, his focus turned to the poet's responsibility in the face of unthinkable horrors. How does a poet begin to address these subjects? In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, author of the new book Auden and the Muse of History, about Auden's use of the past to help him come to grips with the present.
Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University. She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford, 2003) and editor of Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Stanford, 2007).
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer467 T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
363 William Butler Yeats
464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years
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478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)
16 januari 2023 · 49 min
Kafka! The avatar of anxiety! He's long been one of our favorites here at the History of Literature Podcast. In this episode, Jacke talks to translator Ross Benjamin about the new edition of The Diaries of Franz Kafka, published by Schocken Books, which includes some material available in English for the first time.
“Readers will welcome this new edition of the Diaries, complete, uncensored, in a fluent translation by Ross Benjamin, and supplemented with 78 pages of invaluable notes, the fruit of half a century of Kafka scholarship.” —J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace
“Ross Benjamin has given the literary world an incredible treasure in this thoughtful edition. Kafka has never been so fully present, both as a man and a writer." —New York Journal of Books
Additional listening: Lees meer134 The Greatest Night of Kafka's Life
139 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)
404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)
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477 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 2 - "The Vice of Reading")
12 januari 2023 · 47 min
Does Edith Wharton hate us? That's a provocative question - but perhaps one that Wharton herself provoked, with her essay on the readers who damaged literature and her fiction satirizing the same. In this two-part series, Jacke takes a look at the type of readers targeted by Wharton: not the readers of trash fiction, whom she believed were harmless enough, but the readers of serious fiction who nevertheless read fiction in the wrong way. Does it include History of Literature Podcast listeners or even - gulp - its host?
This episode is Part Two, which focuses on Wharton's 1903 essay "The Vice of Reading." Part One, which focuses on Wharton's 1916 short story "Xingu," will be available at the same time.
Additional listening: Lees meerEdith Wharton (with Mike Palindrome)
61 In the Mood for a Good Book - Wharton, Murakami, Chandler, and Fowles (with Vu Tran)
414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith)
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476 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 1 - "Xingu")
12 januari 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
Does Edith Wharton hate us? That's a provocative question - but perhaps one that Wharton herself provoked, with her essay on the readers who damaged literature and her fiction satirizing the same. In this two-part series, Jacke takes a look at the type of readers targeted by Wharton: not the readers of trash fiction, whom she believed were harmless enough, but the readers of serious fiction who nevertheless read fiction in the wrong way. Does it include History of Literature Podcast listeners or even - gulp - its host?
This episode is Part One, focusing on Wharton's 1916 short story "Xingu." Part Two, which focuses on Wharton's 1903 essay "The Vice of Reading," will be available at the same time.
Additional listening: Lees meerEdith Wharton (with Mike Palindrome)
61 In the Mood for a Good Book - Wharton, Murakami, Chandler, and Fowles (with Vu Tran)
414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith)
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475 Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (with Emma Smith)
9 januari 2023 · 52 min
As we all know, the text of a book can possess incredible powers, transporting readers across time and space. But what about the books themselves? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Emma Smith (This Is Shakespeare) about her new book, Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers, which provides a material history of books and the people who love them.
EMMA SMITH is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, and the author of This Is Shakespeare (2020). She lives in Oxford, England.
Additional listening: Lees meer92 The Books of Our Lives
149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World)
259 Shakespeare's Best - Sonnets 129 and 130 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" and "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")
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474 Herman Melville
5 januari 2023 · 1 uur
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick and many other works. Melville experienced ups and downs, from a fancy Manhattan childhood to financial ruin and back again. Once a literary celebrity, heralded for his early novels based on his experiences living on tropical islands with cannibals, he was nearly forgotten at the time of his death, only to be rediscovered a few decades afterward - and to become a household name for more than a hundred years.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)
296 Nathaniel Hawthorne
273 The Book for Book Lovers - The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book (with Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley)
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473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)
2 januari 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Jacke is joined by Professor Mark Cirino, host of the One True Podcast and editor of One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art, for a discussion of Hemingway's classic short story about World War I and recovery in an Italian hospital, "In Another Country." (If you haven't read the story in a while don't worry - we read it for you!) PLUS we kick off a new series on 99 random fragments of Kafka's life.
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Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)
47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald
162 Ernest Hemingway
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472 The Art of Not Knowing
29 december 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
In this special episode, Jacke pays tribute to a friend, including a consideration of endings and beginnings, mystery and grace, and two powerful works: John Berger's The Shape of a Pocket and James Joyce's masterpiece "The Dead."
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471 Angels of War (with Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner
26 december 2022 · 51 min
In this episode, Jacke talks to three bestselling authors - Susan Meissner, Kristina McMorris, and Ariel Lawhon - who came together to write When We Had Wings, a historical novel about a trio of World War II nurses who waged their own battle for freedom and survival. PLUS we hear what Charlie Lovett, bibliophile and Lewis Carroll expert, would choose as the last book he would ever read.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett)
308 New Westerns (with Anna North)
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470 Two Christmas Days - A Holiday Story by Ida B. Wells
22 december 2022 · 50 min
Legendary anti-lynching crusader and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) is best known for her diligent research and brave and compelling journalism. But she was also a feature writer for both black-owned and white-owned newspapers, and her talents were not just limited to nonfiction. In this episode, Jacke reads and discusses a rare example of Wells's surviving fiction, "Two Christmas Days: A Holiday Story," the only romantic story Wells ever published.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer293 Ebeneezer Scrooge
311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin)
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469 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (with Gina Buonaguro)
19 december 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Since its publication in 1908, E.M. Forster's classic novel A Room with a View, which tells the story of a young Englishwoman who finds a romantic adventure during a trip to Florence, has inspired countless travelers to expand their minds and warm their hearts with a tour through Italy. In this episode, Jacke talks to historical and romance novelist Gina Buonaguro about her love for Forster's work, her own use of Italy as a setting, and her most recent novel The Virgins of Venice.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger)
131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio)
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
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468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell)
15 december 2022 · 53 min
In 1886, the twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was practicing medicine, supporting his family, falling in and out love, writing pieces for newspapers at a furious pace - and gradually becoming one of the greatest short story writers the world has ever seen. In this episode, Jacke talks to Bob Blaisdell, author of Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius, about the two-year period in which Chekhov went from a virtual unknown to a promising literary star admired by Tolstoy himself.
Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough College and the author of Creating Anna Karenina. He is a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Christian Science Monitor, and the editor of more than three dozen Dover literature and poetry collections, including a collection of Chekhov's love stores. He lives in New York City.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer150 Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog"
"Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov
"Gusev" by Anton Chekhov
63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter)
290 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
292 Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
294 Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
295 The Past, The Future, and Chekhov
299 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
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467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
12 december 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
In 2022, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land turned 100 years old - and it's hard to imagine a poem with a more explosive impact or a more enduring influence. In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Jed Rasula about his book, What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern.
Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. He is the author of nine scholarly books and three poetry collections and the coeditor of two anthologies. His recent books include Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century and History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meerT.S. Eliot | The Waste Land
438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome)
165 Ezra Pound
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466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)
8 december 2022 · 51 min
When novelist Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, the planet lost one of its most creative and compelling voices. In this episode, Jacke talks to Vonnegut scholar Christina Jarvis (Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship) about Vonnegut's ethical, environmental, and planetary teachings. Lees meer
CHRISTINA JARVIS is Professor of English at State University of New York at Fredonia, where she teaches courses in sustainability and twentieth-century American literature and culture, including several major author seminars on Kurt Vonnegut. She is the author of The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, and has published in journals such as Women’s Studies, The Southern Quarterly, The Journal of Men’s Studies, and War, Literature, and the Arts. She lives near the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York.
Additional listening suggestions:
362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome)
436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)
Music Credits:
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465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober)
5 december 2022 · 51 min
Game theory as a mathematical discipline has been around since the Cold War, but as Professor Josiah Ober (The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason) points out, its roots stretch back to Socrates, if not before. In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Ober about the Greek discovery of practical reason - and how literature plays a special role in helping us to understand what the Greeks thought, how they organized their society, and how we might apply those lessons today.
Josiah Ober is Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow (Courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He is author or editor of eighteen books, including The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece and Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer155 Plato
374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sopocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
5 Greek Tragedy
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464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years
1 december 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
Following up on Episode 446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years, Jacke takes a look at the final five years of Percy Bysshe Shelley's life, from 1817-1822, as the poet turned away from hands-on political action in favor of attempting to transform the world through his art. Works discussed include the Preface to Frankenstein; "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples"; "Ozymandias"; "Ode to the West Wind"; "The Cloud"; "To a Skylark"; "Adonais, or an Elegy on the Death of John Keats"; Prometheus Unbound; "Music When Soft Voices Die"; "The Waning Moon" and "Art Thou Pale for Weariness."
Additional listening: Lees meer446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
451 Mary Shelley
John Keats
More John Keats
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463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)
28 november 2022 · 57 min
Sigmund Freud once said of the philosopher and cultural critic Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) that "he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live.” Well known for his iconoclastic views and intoxicating prose style, Nietzsche went from near obscurity in his lifetime to dominating the ideas of philosophers, novelists, politicians, intellectuals, and artists. In this episode, Jacke talks to Ritchie Robertson, author of Friedrich Nietzsche (Critical Lives), about one of the most influential thinkers and writers of the past century.
Ritchie Robertson is a fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and the Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. His books include Goethe: A Very Short Introduction and The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer164 Karl Marx
392 Sigmund Freud
117 Machiavelli and The Prince
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462 My Last Book (with Laurie Frankel)
23 november 2022 · 1 uur
The question stopped Jacke in his tracks. "Dear Jacke," said the emailer. "What do you want your "last book" to be? This will be the last book you will ever read..." And so, he set about determining what his "last book" should be, with help from dozens of guests (and counting). In this special episode, Jacke talks to super guest Laurie Frankel (Goodbye For Now, One Two Three) about her choice for the "last book" she will ever read. With special cameos from Dinitia Smith, Saikat Majumdar, Isaac Butler, and Anna Beer.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer332 Hamlet (with Laurie Frankel)
360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel)
414 The Golden Bowl by Henry James (with Dinitia Smith)
447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)
449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler)
459 Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature (with Anna Beer)
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461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)
21 november 2022 · 47 min
Pulitzer-Prize-winning literary biographer Megan Marshall joins Jacke to discuss the book that was twenty years in the making: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism. This "stunning work of biography," as the New York Times labeled it, tells the story of Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody, the nineteenth-century New England women who made intellectual history.
MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer120 Emily Dickinson
356 Louisa May Alcott
296 Nathaniel Hawthorne
111 The Americanest American - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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460 Rabindranath Tagore
17 november 2022 · 51 min
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and works of the legendary Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Central to what became known as the Bengali Renaissance, Tagore's poetry, short stories, songs, essays, paintings, and plays earned Tagore widespread praise from Indians and non-Indians alike. Among many other awards and accolades, in 1913 Tagore became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer381 C. Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan)
323 Salman Rushdie
35 Ronica Dhar
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459 Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature (with Anna Beer)
14 november 2022 · 51 min
Jacke talks to author Anna Beer about her new book Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature, which tells the stories of eight women (Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon) who were warned not to write - but who did anyway.
If you enjoyed this topic, you might also like our Forgotten Women of Literature series: Lees meer261 Enheduanna (with Charles Halton)
263 Cai Yan (Wenji)
265 Aemelia Lanyer
268 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
340 Constance Fenimore Woolson
359 Eliza Haywood
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458 Alexander Pushkin (with Robert Chandler)
10 november 2022 · 50 min
For many Russian writers and readers, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) holds a special place: his position in Russian literature is often compared to Shakespeare's in English, Dante's in Italian, and Goethe's in German. In this episode, Jacke talks to Pushkin translator Robert Chandler (Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose) about the life and works of Russia's "greatest poet and founder of modern Russian literature."
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer169 Dostoevsky
150 "The Lady with the Little Dog" by Anton Chekhov
Chekhov and "Gooseberries"
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457 The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson's Editor (The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Story) | PLUS Making (Book) Dreams Come True (with Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg)
7 november 2022 · 51 min
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) has become famous as the man who in 1862 encouraged young contributors to submit to his magazine - and who received in reply four poems from an unknown woman in Amherst, who asked whether he thought her verses were alive. Her name, of course, was Emily Dickinson, and Higginson recognized her genius immediately. But there was more to the Higginson story than just his relationship with one of America's greatest poets. He was also a member of the antislavery group known as "The Secret Six," and during the Civil War, he was colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment consisting of former slaves. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the two sides of this unassuming but astonishing man.
PLUS Jacke is visited by Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg (hosts of the podcast Book Dreams), who are working to fund a bookmobile that will deliver free books to children in need this holiday season. Learn more about how you can help at https://www.bookdreamsinc.org.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
120 The Astonishing Emily Dickinson
418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
And from the Book Dreams Podcast!
Native Americans and Comedy
A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
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456 Maya Angelou
3 november 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Best known for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was a woman of many talents and accomplishments. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and works of this incredible singer, dancer, songwriter, activist, poet, actor, director, documentary producer, and of course, memoirist.
Additional listening: Lees meerLearn more about one of Angelou's inspirations in Episode 300 Frederick Douglass and Episode 311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read.
Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin joined us last year for a great discussion about her book in Episode 358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature.
We looked at the debate between James Baldwin (who later encouraged Angelou to write her autobiography) and William Faulkner in Baldwin v. Faulkner.
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455 Gustave Flaubert
31 oktober 2022 · 59 min
Perhaps contemporary critic James Wood put it best: "Novelists," he wrote, "should thank Flaubert the way poets thank spring." In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and major works of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), the Frenchman from Rouen who redefined what realism - and prose fiction - could do.
Additional listening: Lees meerFor the story of Jacke's trip through Tibet, with Emma Bovary as his trusty companion, try Episode 79 Music That Melts the Stars - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
To wallow in the muck with Flaubert's birth-year brother, check out Episode 274 Baudelaire and the Flowers of Evil or Episode 352 Charles Baudelaire (with Aaron Poochigian).
To distinguish yourself with some of Flaubert's illustrious predecessors, try Episode 390 Victor Hugo, Episode 152 George Sand, or Episode 420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende).
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454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story
27 oktober 2022 · 43 min
Happy Halloween! In this episode, producer Emma selects a classic Victorian ghost story for Jacke to read: "Eveline's Visitant" by the publishing powerhouse Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer270 "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
450 "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
116 Ghost Stories!
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453 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Dr Rae Wynn-Grant)
24 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 26 min
Jacke talks to Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant about her journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist and two classic works from the 1960s that helped inspire her: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley) and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
Be sure to check out Dr. Wynn-Grant's podcast Going Wild, brought to you by PBS Nature. Journey deep into the heart of the world’s most remote jungles, savannas, tundras, mountains, and deserts with wildlife biologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant as she studies wild animals in their natural habitats. Rae and her teams spend years studying these animals – in order to protect their futures. Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant takes you inside their hidden worlds – and the action-packed, suspense-filled adventures of the wildlife conservationists who track them. Hear what it takes to find and save some of the world’s most intriguing and endangered creatures. Explore more at www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/podcasts/going-wild/.
DR. RAE WYNN-GRANT received her B.S. in Environmental Studies from Emory University, her M.S. in Environmental Studies from Yale University, and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Columbia University. She completed a Conservation Science Research and Teaching Postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History. She is currently a Research Faculty member at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management leading carnivore research on the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. She maintains a Research Fellow position with National Geographic Society focusing on carnivore conservation in partnership with the American Prairie Reserve and a Visiting Scientist position at the American Museum of Natural History.
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452 Charles and Mary Lamb | A Letter To My Transgender Daughter (with Carolyn Hays)
20 oktober 2022 · 1 uur
In this episode, Jacke takes a look at two topics. First, the story of Charles and Mary Lamb, whose children's book Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was published more than two hundred years ago and has never been out of print. Part of the literary circle that included Romantic-era luminaries like Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, the siblings dedicated their lives to looking after one another, even as they each experienced periods of madness that led, one horrific night, to the murder of their mother. After that, Jacke talks to bestselling author Carolyn Hays about her new book A Girlhood: Letter To My Transgender Daughter, which tells the story of raising a transgender child in today's highly politicized environment.
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451 Mary Shelley
17 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
For more than two centuries, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) has been eclipsed by others: her famous parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, her even more famous husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and even her own creations, the "modern Prometheus" Victor Frankenstein and the creature that often (and erroneously) bears his name. But Mary Shelley deserves more attention than just as the young woman who married a Romantic poet and happened to write an indelible novel. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and career of one of the great literary figures of her era.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva)
65 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler)
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450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
13 oktober 2022 · 59 min
It's October! Time for dead leaves, spooky twilight, and little goblins running around in search of candy. And of course, the OG Mr. October, Edgar Allan Poe. In this episode, Jacke (finally!) accommodates the voluminous requests for an episode on Poe's classic story of guilt, madness, and horror, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Lees meer
Additional listening suggestions:
278 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)
276 Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Detective Story | "The Purloined Letter"
270 Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat"
Music Credits:
“Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA).
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449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler)
10 oktober 2022 · 53 min
We all talk about actors who use the Method, but do we really understand what that means? And how exactly has the Method changed the way we take in drama? In this episode, Jacke talks to theater expert Isaac Butler about his book The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. And in a special bonus, Isaac also tells Jacke about the Shakespeare variant known as "Bad Hamlet."
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer338 Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly)
288 The Triumph of Broadway (with Michael Riedel)
374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
The Best of the Bard: Top 10 Greatest Lines in Shakespeare
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448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett)
6 oktober 2022 · 53 min
Although best known for his classic children's books involving Alice and her Wonderland adventures, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was a man of many talents and interests. In this episode, Jacke talks to Carrollinian scholar and biographer Charlie Lovett about his new book, Lewis Carroll: Formed by Faith.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meerBeatrix Potter
C.S. Lewis
373 Roald Dahl
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447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)
3 oktober 2022 · 57 min
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) started a firestorm with his 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was quickly banned around the world. But the novel eventually found its way into print, after winning numerous obscenity trials in the 1950s and 60s, and today it's widely available (if not always widely read). In this episode, Jacke talks to Indian novelist Saikat Majumdar (The Middle Finger, Silverfish) about Saikat's childhood, his journey to becoming a writer, and his admiration for Lawrence's classic novel. Lees meer
Additional listening suggestions:
87 Man in Love: the Passions of D.H. Lawrence
381 C. Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan)
338 Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly)
Music Credits:
“Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA).
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446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
29 september 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
Jacke takes a look at the early years of Percy Bysshe Shelley, from his idyllic childhood, to his rebellious student years, to his experiments in free love, radical politics, and Wordsworthian poetry. Works discussed include "Queen Mab," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," "Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude," "Mont Blanc," "Mutability ["We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon"], and "To Wordsworth."
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meerJohn Keats
More John Keats
306 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian)
307 Keats's Ode to Psyche
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story of Lord Byron
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445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
26 september 2022 · 56 min
As the author of what is generally considered the first and perhaps greatest novel of the modern era, Miguel de Cervantes and his masterpiece Don Quixote belongs on every shelf. But as two scholars point out in their new book, What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature the lessons to be learned from Cervantes go beyond issues of plot and character. In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor David Castillo and Professor William Egginton about using the example of Cervantes to better understand the role that the humanities can play in dissecting and combatting the forces of disinformation.
Additional listening suggestions: Lees meer329 Miguel de Cervantes
Jorge Luis Borges
314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)
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