Podcast – Page 19 – Jacke Wilson

May 5, 2018

History of Literature #139 – “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL1087999791.mp3 In 1922, the miserable genius Franz Kafka wrote a short story, Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist), about another miserable genius: a man whose “art” is to live in a cage and display his fasting ability to crowds that don’t always appreciate what he is trying to do. Inspired by actual historical figures, though suffused… Continue reading

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a hunger artist, fasting, Kafka, Prague, Short Stories

April 14, 2018

History of Literature Episode #137 – Haruki Murakami

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL4372276419.mp3 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) is one of the rare writers who combines literary admiration with widespread appeal. Host Jacke Wilson is joined by lifelong Murakami fan Mike Palindrome to discuss what makes his novels so compelling, so mysterious, and so popular. Works discussed include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore,… Continue reading

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japanese literature, kurt vonnegut, magical realism, raymond carver, raymond chandler

April 12, 2018

History of Literature Episode #136 – The Kids Are All Right (Aren’t They?) Making the Case for Literature

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL7957805150.mp3 Does literature matter? Why read at all? Jacke Wilson takes questions from high school students and attempts to make the case for literature. Works and authors discussed include Beloved, The Great Gatsby, Shakespeare, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, the Odyssey, The Inferno,… Continue reading

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high school, new mexico, reading, teaching literature to high school students

April 7, 2018

The History of Literature #135 – Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL2517676848.mp3 Hollywood screenwriter and professional script doctor Brian Price, author of Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting: Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter, found everything he needed to know about screenwriting in a 2,500-year-old text, Aristotle’s Poetics. Brian and Jacke talk about how Aristotle’s study of Greek tragedy has unlocked the buried secrets of storytelling – and how those… Continue reading

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Aristotle, black panther, casablanca, films, how to write a screenplay, movies, screenplays

April 3, 2018

History of Literature #134 – The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka’s Life

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL7590405383.mp3 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More We use the term Kafkaesque to describe bureaucracies and other social institutions with nightmarishly complex, illogical, or bizarre qualities – and in most biographies of Franz Kafka (1883-1924) we find that his life often mirrored the strangeness in his fiction. In this episode, host Jacke Wilson examines the origins of Kafka’s particular sensibility,… Continue reading

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artists, creative writing, fathers and sons, Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis, the judgment

March 31, 2018

The History of Literature #133 – The Hidden Machinery – Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL9154508206.mp3 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Ever wonder how fiction works? Or what great literature can teach us about writing? Novelist Margot Livesey returns to the show for a discussion of her book The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com or facebook.com/historyofliterature. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or @WriterJacke. Continue reading

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andrea barrett, creative writing, Jane Austen, margot livesey, William Shakespeare

March 28, 2018

The History of Literature #132 – Top 10 Literary Villains

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6947295812.mp3 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Villains! Bad guys ! Femme fatales! We love them in movies – but what about literature? What makes villains so effective (and so essential)? What do they tell us about their authors – and what can they tell us about ourselves? In this episode, Jacke and Mike select the Top 10… Continue reading

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bad guys, Literature, villains

March 22, 2018

The History of Literature #131 – Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the greatest poet of his era and one of the greatest artists of all time. His masterpiece, the Divine Comedy (or simply Comedìa or Commedia), written between 1312-1320, which describes his journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso), stands as one of the greatest achievements of Western… Continue reading

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beatrice, Dante, inferno, la vita nuova, love poetry

March 21, 2018

The History of Literature #130 – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) began her career as a poet of love and ended it as the poet of suffering and heartbreak, thanks in no small part to the totalitarian Russian regime she suffered under. On today’s special Valentine’s Day edition of The History of Literature, we look at Akhmatova’s poetry and life,… Continue reading

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amedeo modigliani, anna akhmatova, love affair

January 26, 2018

The History of Literature #128 – Top 10 Animals in Literature

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:12:32 — 50.1MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Continuing our look at animals in literature, we’re joined by Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, for a discussion of the Top 10 Animals in Literature. Did your favorite make the list? Did we leave it out altogether? Let us know! Authors,… Continue reading

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animals in literature, charlotte’s web, George Orwell, Moby-Dick