Jacke Wilson

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Patrick O’Brian

May 12, 2017

The History of Literature #92 – The Books of Our Lives

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:05 — 44.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | More “In the middle of life’s journey,” wrote Dante Alighieri, “I found myself in a selva oscura.” Host Jacke Wilson and frequent guest Mike Palindrome take stock of their own selva oscura Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature, Podcast, Writing

Alice Munro, elena ferrante, graham greene, haruki murakami, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, javier marias, Jay McInerney, John D. Fitzgerald, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Leo Tolstoy, lorrie moore, Marcel Proust, Patrick O’Brian, Paul Celan, Rainer Maria Rilke, rene descartes, Thomas Mann
October 10, 2013

The Great Novella Tournament of Champions: Billy Budd v. The Secret Sharer

The Great Novella Tournament of Champions celebrates a classic literary form believed to be poised for a comeback. The judge is a long-time fan of the form who is in the final stages of self-publishing a novella of his own. Off we go! First up in our celebrity novella deathmatch are a couple of Continue reading

Authors, GNTOC, Novellas, Tournament of Champions, Writing

art, Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Budd, Genre fiction, Heart of Darkness, HermanMelville, Joseph Conrad, Literary fiction, Melville, Moby-Dick, novella, Patrick O’Brian, Secret Sharer, Writer, Writing