Writing
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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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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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The History of Literature #129 – Great Sports Novels (Where Are They!?)
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6569270615.mp3 Every year, the Super Bowl draws over 100 million viewers in the U.S. alone, and the Olympics and World Cup will be watched by billions around the world. Movies and television shows about sports are too numerous to count. But where are the novels? Mike Palindrome and special guest Reagan Sova (author of… Continue reading
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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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History of Literature #127 – Gertrude Stein
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08:37 — 47.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) would be essential to the history of literature had she never written a word – but she did write words, lots of them, and they’ve led to her having an uneasy position in the canon of English literature. Avant-garde… Continue reading
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History of Literature #126 – Animals in Literature (Part One)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:38 — 39.9MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Inspired by a listener’s heartfelt request, we take a look at an often overlooked subject: animals in literature. In this episode, a precursor to a forthcoming Draft with President Mike (i.e., “The 10 Best Animals in Literature”), Jacke considers the earliest mentions of animals… Continue reading
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History of Literature #125 – Raymond Carver
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:35 — 54.2MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Raymond Carver (1938-1988) packed a lot of pain of suffering into his relatively brief life. He also experienced relief and even joy – and along the way, he became one of the most influential short story writers of the American twentieth century. How did… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #124 – James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:23:20 — 57.5MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More In this second part of a two-part episode, we look at the resounding conclusion of James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead,” which contains some of the finest prose ever written in the English language. Be warned: this episode, which runs from Gabriel’s speech to the… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #123 – James Joyce’s The Dead (part 1)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:47 — 41.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Happy holidays! In this special two-part episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at a story that he can’t stop thinking about: James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead.” How does it work? Why is it so good? And why does it resonate so deeply with… Continue reading
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History of Literature #121 – A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man – John Ashbery’s Early Life (with Karin Roffman)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:41 — 45.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More In this episode, author Karin Roffman joins Jacke for a conversation about her literary biography of John Ashbery, one of America’s greatest twentieth-century poets. In naming Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life as one of its Notable Books of the Year, The New York Times noted… Continue reading
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