Fiction
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History of Literature #116 – Ghost Stories!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:12:54 — 50.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More It’s the Halloween Episode! After some false starts (thanks, Gar!), Jacke settles in to discuss some ghost stories, including a few old chestnuts, a little Toni Morrison, a little Henry James, and a LOT of real-life phenomena. Along the way, he discusses how ghost stories… Continue reading
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History of Literature #115 – The Genius of Alice Munro
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:04 — 63.5MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More She was born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931, in a small town called Wingham Ontario, the daughter of a mink farmer and a schoolteacher. Eighty years later, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mike and… Continue reading
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History of Literature #112 – The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor – Unpacking Nabokov’s Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:41 — 35.1MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More “I admire Freud greatly,” the novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said, “as a comic writer.” For Nabokov, Sigmund Freud was “the Viennese witch-doctor,” objectionable for “the vulgar, shabby, fundamentally medieval world” of his ideas. Author Joshua Ferris (The Dinner Party, Then We Came to the End) joins Jacke for a… Continue reading
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History of Literature #110 – The Heart of Darkness – Then And Now
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:32 — 66.6MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Jacke and Mike discuss Joseph Conrad’s short novel Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now, and Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. Then Jacke offers some thoughts on the recent events in Charlottesville, compares them with the themes in Conrad, and argues that… Continue reading
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History of Literature #107 – The Man and the Myth – Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (with Mattias Bostrom)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:59 — 42.8MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Continuing our series on literary myths, we’re joined by Mattias Bostrom, author of From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon, for a conversation about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his astonishing creation, Sherlock Holmes. Would you like to… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #106 – Literature Goes to the Movies Part Two – Flops, Bombs, and Stinkeroos
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:11 — 46.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Ah, the sweet smell of success… and the burning stench of failure. Continuing their two part conversation on literary adaptations, Jacke and Mike choose ten of the worst book-to-movie projects of all time. How could so many people, working so hard and with such great source… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #105 – Funny Women, Crimes Against Women, George Orwell, and More (with Kathy Cooperman)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:28 — 45.9MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Kathy Cooperman, author of the new novel Crimes Against a Book Club, joins the show to discuss everything from the secret lives of book clubs to her own journey from improv to lawyering to becoming an author. She also tells Jacke about an inspiring Bette Davis… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #103 – Literature Goes to the Movies
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:21 — 62.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More The lights dim, the audience hushes in expectation, and the light and magic begin. In some ways (the crowd, the sound) the experience of watching a movie could not be more different from reading a novel – and yet the two have some very important… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #102 – Pablo Neruda
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:36 — 46.0MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) lived an eventful life: from his youth in Chile, to the sensational reception of his book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1923), to the career in poetry that led to his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature (1971), to the political… Continue reading
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History of Literature #101 – Writers at Work
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:18 — 42.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More We’re back! Recovered, rested, and ready to go with a brand new set of 100 episodes. In episode #101, we kick things off with superguest Mike Palindrome of the Literature Supporters Club who joins Jacke for a discussion of writers and their day jobs. How… Continue reading
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