jenny minton quigley – Jacke Wilson

April 23, 2022

The History of Literature #395 – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)

Jacke plays a clip from Nabokov discussing his famous novel Lolita, in which the frantic narrator Humbert Humbert recounts his passionate (and illegal, immoral, and illicit) love for a young girl. After hearing from the author, Jacke plays clips from three History of Literature Podcast interviews: Jenny Minton Quigley, Jim Shepard,, and Joshua Ferris. Additional listening: Continue reading

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March 7, 2022

The History of Literature #347 – The Prisoner and His Prize – The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley)

William Sidney Porter (1862-1910) packed a lot of life into his 47 years, traveling from a childhood in North Carolina to work as a rancher and bank teller in Texas to a desperate escape to Honduras, where he hoped to avoid federal prosecution for embezzlement. Eventually he spent three years in prison, where he began Continue reading

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American Short Stories, jenny minton quigley, o. henry, Short Stories, The Gift of the Magi, William Sidney Porter

July 27, 2021

The History of Literature #318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)

Jacke hosts Jenny Minton Quigley, editor of the new collection LOLITA IN THE AFTERLIFE: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century, for a discussion of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic (and controversial) 1958 novel. Jenny Minton Quigley is the daughter of Lolita’s original publisher in America, Walter J. Minton. Lolita in Continue reading

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censorship, emily mortimer, ian frazier, jenny minton quigley, jim shepard, lolita, robin givhan, roxane gay, vladimir nabokov, walter j. minton