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History of Literature #119 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:39 — 54.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Very few works of art have had the cultural and literary impact of J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye. An immediate success upon its publication in 1951, and popular with teenagers (and adults) ever since, the book has sold over 65 million copies 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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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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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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The History of Literature #100 – The Greatest Books with Numbers in the Title
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:28 — 41.8MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | More It’s here! Episode 100! Special guest Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, returns for a numbers-based theme: what are the greatest works of literature with numbers in the title? Authors discussed include Thomas Pynchon, Dr. Seuss, Alexandre Dumas, Haruki Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Agatha Continue reading
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The History of Literature #96 – Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard)
Author Jim Shepard joins the podcast to discuss everything from the humor of Christopher Guest and S.J. Perelman to the poetic philosophy of Robert Frost and F.W. Murnau’s classic film, Nosferatu. He and host Jacke Wilson flutter around Nabokov’s Lolita, sink their teeth into Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and descend into the world of volcanoes in Krakatua Continue reading
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The History of Literature #94 – Smoke, Dusk, and Fire – The Jean Toomer Story
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was born into a prominent black family in Washington, D.C., but it wasn’t until he returned to the land of agrarian Georgia that he was inspired to write his masterpiece Cane (1923), a towering achievement that went on to influence the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation. While Toomer’s Continue reading
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History of Literature #85 – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:11 — 45.7MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | More In 1813, a young author named Jane Austen built on the success of her popular novel Sense and Sensibility with a new novel about the emotional life of an appealing protagonist named Elizabeth Bennet, Continue reading
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History of Literature #83 – Overrated! Top 10 Books You Don’t Need to Read
Life is short, and books are many. How many great books have you read? How many more have you NOT read? How to choose? Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, joins Jacke for a discussion of overrated classics and the pleasures of shortening one’s list of must-reads. Podcast: Play in new window | Continue reading
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