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Aristophanes and Spike Lee
Our History of Literature journey takes us to Aristophanes next. I’m working on the episode now, which of course will have a heavy emphasis on his play Lysistrata. And then I realize that the play has been adapted to a modern-day setting for a movie (Chi-Raq) by none other than Spike Lee. I admire Spike Lee Continue reading
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A Sufjan Stevens Christmas
I haven’t listened to Sufjan Stevens in a while, but there was a time when his Michigan album was just about all I listened to. Is he completely unlike anyone else, or do I just not listen to enough music? In any case, I ran across his Christmas albums the other day. Here’s a taste: So Continue reading
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History of Literature Episode 6 – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Author Jacke Wilson examines the works of three great Greek tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides – and attempts to solve the mystery of why Friedrich Nietzsche admired two of the three and despised the other. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:28 — 38.4MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Continue reading
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“A Crisp and Merciless Clarity”: Mary Beard’s SPQR
I haven’t read the latest book by Mary Beard yet, but this NY Times review is certainly enough to whet my readerly appetite: How on earth did they do it? The Greek historian Polybius, writing in the second century B.C., was the first to ask the question: “Who could be so indifferent or so idle that they Continue reading
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Suspense vs. Surprise: A Hitchcockian Look at the Clip “When Adele Was Jenny”
It’s a very familiar explanation and always worth repeating. Here’s Alfred Hitchcock: There is a distinct difference between “suspense” and “surprise,” and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I’ll explain what I mean. We are now having a very innocent little chat. Let’s suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. Continue reading
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The Restless Mind Show Episode 8 – My Inner Bleeping Bandit
Testing the Burt Reynolds method for avoiding cliches! Author Jacke Wilson takes a break from the history of literature to consider language and masculinity. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:51 — 22.2MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Options (NB: We’re still sharing a feed with the History of Literature… Continue reading
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Writers Laughing: A Jacke Wilson Gallery
Peace on earth, good will to all…and a photo gallery of great writers caught in the act of laughing. Happy holidays! Join us on the History of Literature podcast or at the Jacke Wilson blog for more literary delights. Get the History of Literature podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Options Try the latest History Continue reading
Alice Munro, anita desai, Flannery O’Connor, Gabriel García Márquez, garrett hongo, georges simenon, Henry Miller, j.r.r. tolkien, James Baldwin, Jean-Paul Sartre, john irving, joseph brodsky, kiran desai, kurt vonnegut, lorrie moore, margaret atwood, mary beard, norman mailer, pablo neruda, phillip roth, Ray Bradbury, Samuel Beckett, sandra cisneros, scott fitzgerald, seamus heaney, sherman alexie, Simone de Beauvoir, Stephen King, truman capote, w.e.b. dubois, Writers laughing, Zelda Fitzgerald, zora neale hurston
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