Jacke Wilson

January 24, 2019

The History of Literature #174 – David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Special!)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL2844708445.mp3 Ask and ye shall receive! It’s an all-Mike episode devoted entirely to one of his literary heroes, David Foster Wallace. Enjoy! Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email Continue reading

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david foster wallace, infinite jest, mike palindrome

January 23, 2019

The History of Literature #173 – The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL4750355007.mp3 Happy new year! Host Jacke Wilson is joined by special guest Evie Lee, a vice-president at the Literature Supporters Club, for a conversation about the classic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) wrote nine novels and novellas, several plays, and over 180 short stories in her writing Continue reading

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Anxiety, charlotte perkins gilman, feminism, horror fiction, medicine, yellow wallpaper

January 3, 2019

The History of Literature #172 – Holiday Movies (with Brian Price)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL1809357435.mp3 Seasons Greetings! In this episode, Jacke attempts to recover from last week’s gloominess with something lighter and cheerier: a trip to the movies! Holiday movies dominate screens big and little during the month of December – but what do they do to us? How do they work? What separates a good holiday movie from Continue reading

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Christmas, holiday movies, jesus, santa claus

January 2, 2019

The History of Literature #171 – To Sleep, Perchance to Dream – On Writers and Death

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL1224092783.mp3 “To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” In these immortal lines, Shakespeare’s Hamlet gives voice to one of the greatest of all human questions. What happens when we die? Should we be excited by the mystery? Continue reading

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Death, famous last words, Literature, suicide

December 31, 2018

The History of Literature #170 – Toni Morrison

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL3474907449.mp3 TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) is one of the most successful and admired authors in the history of American literature. Her novels include The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977) and Beloved (1987), which is widely considered to be her masterpiece. After successful careers in both academia and publishing during the 1960s Continue reading

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american literature, beloved, toni morrison

December 10, 2018

The History of Literature #169 – Dostoevsky

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL4056729298.mp3 FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) was, in the estimation of James Joyce, “the man more than any other who has created modern prose.” “Outside Shakespeare,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “there is no more exciting reading.” His influence is as impossible to understand as it is to overstate: he is widely credited as the forerunner of modern psychology, Continue reading

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angst, crime and punishment, Dostoevsky, existentialism, russian novelists

December 9, 2018

The History of Literature #168 – Jhumpa Lahiri (“The Third and Final Continent”)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL5314501983.mp3 What was it like to relocate from India to London to America in the early 1970s? And how can a daughter hope to recapture the experience of her father and convey it in fiction? In today’s episode of the History of Literature, Jacke and Mike look at a contemporary classic story, Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Continue reading

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contemporary literature, immigrant literature, jhumpa lahiri, Literary fiction, mike palindrome, Short Stories

November 24, 2018

The History of Literature #167 – F Scott Fitzgerald (“Babylon Revisited”)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL9773285375.mp3 What happens when the party is over? Can you ever truly escape your past? Jacke and Mike take a look at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1931 story of guilt and melancholy, “Babylon Revisited.” F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was the quintessential Jazz Age writer. While he’s known today primarily as the author of the near-perfect Continue reading

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November 23, 2018

The History of Literature #166 – Stephen King (with the Sisters of Slaughter)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL8347744511.mp3 STEPHEN KING (1947- ) was born in the northern state of Maine, where he has lived most of his life. For more than forty years, he has been the world’s leading practitioner of scary fiction. He’s also won numerous awards, including the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the Continue reading

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November 20, 2018

The History of Literature #164 – Karl Marx

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL7610977492.mp3 Karl Marx (1818-1883) turned his early interest in literature and philosophy into a lifelong study of the socioeconomic forces unleashed by the rise of capitalism. His works The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, among others, influenced the course of the twentieth century like few others. But who was Karl Marx? How did his ideas become so widespread? Continue reading

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communist manifesto, karl marx, marxism, marxist literary theory