Jacke Wilson

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suicide

February 6, 2021

The History of Literature #275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford)

Professor Richard Bradford, author of the new biography The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway, joins Jacke to talk about Hemingway’s uneasy relationship with the truth. RICHARD BRADFORD is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over 25 acclaimed books, including biographies Continue reading

history of literature, Podcast

A Movable Feast, Ernest Hemingway, Fiction, novelist, suicide
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

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

Death, famous last words, Literature, suicide