Jacke Wilson

Author

rene descartes

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
November 18, 2016

History of Literature #67 – Pascal’s Wager and an American Election

Jacke digs into his origins in rural Wisconsin and offers some thoughts on race, literature, and the recent election. Also featured: René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand, and Simone de Beauvoir. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:23:39 — 57.7MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Show Notes: We Continue reading

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

ayn rand, blaise pascal, donald trump, friedrich nietzsche, paul ryan, racism, rene descartes, Simone de Beauvoir, white supremacy, Wisconsin