818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon
Jacke talks to author James Bailey about his critically acclaimed biography Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark. PLUS J....
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20 of 785 episodes817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard
Jacke gets ready for the release of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the rare instance of a summer blockbuster based on a literary classic, with...
816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel Mendelsohn
As a literary classic turns 300, Jacke talks to the University of Oxford's David Womersley about Jonathan Swift, the nature of satire, and T...
815 Paddy Chayefsky
Thanks in part to beloved films like Marty (1955) and Network (1976), Paddy Chayefsky is often regarded as the greatest writer of television...
814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Ghose
What is it like to translate Shakespeare into another language? How does one attempt to capture that transcendent magic so familiar to Engli...
813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli
Upon her death, French novelist George Sand (1804-1876) was widely recognized as one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in Europe. An...
812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence
Why are we so fascinated by the ancient world? What can we find in the distant past that is recognizably human--and how do we grapple with t...
811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey
The Harlem Renaissance, the great flowering of African American arts and culture in the early twentieth century, is hard to define but easy...
810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is widely regarded as one of the greatest short story writers in history. Among his admirers were Flaubert, wh...
809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Paling Funk)
Robert Browning (1812-1889) is often considered one of the greatest of the Victorian poets. Two developments established Browning as an indi...
808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible"
During the Cold War, hearings led by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy soon turned into a witch hunt, as paranoia and political opportunism destr...
807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky and James H McGavran III
When we first started this podcast in 2015, we began with a simple premise: "We are human beings, and human beings tell stories." But how ha...
806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan
By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was widely regarded as America's most popular poet, beloved for the simple, sincere ver...
805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]
In preparation for next week's conversation with Adam Plunkett, author of a new major biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), we revisit an e...
804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea
It's Memorial Day in the United States, a day devoted to remembering the soldiers who have died in service. Together, the society grieves, m...
803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Book with Mark Hussey
The rise of Artificial Intelligence has sent shockwaves through the literary world, with the impact being felt by both publishers and creati...
802 Colette (with Kathleen Antonioli) | My Last Book with Colombe Schneck
Twentieth-century French novelist Colette (1873-1954) was a strikingly modern celebrity and full of contradictions. In this episode, Jacke t...
801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)
As the History of Literature Podcast Tour rolls through literary England, Jacke and Emma are revisiting some past episodes with connections...
800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker
It's Episode 800! Jacke celebrates the milestone by talking to Shakespeare scholar Indira Ghose about her book Shakespeare in Jest, which dr...
799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert
Happy Mother's Day! Jacke takes advantage of an error to revisit a conversation with novelist Laurie Frankel about her book Enormous Wings,...