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In Episode 699, Jacke talks to author Rachel Feder about F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby and her new book Daisy, which retells the Gatsby story from the perspective of a messy, ambitious, and possibly devious 1990s teen poet. #books #literature @nupress.bsky.social

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It's springtime! A great time to be in love and to read about a great love - Dante Alighieri's love for Beatrice. Episode 698 is an ad-free rebroadcast of Jacke's conversation with Anthony Valerio and Professor Ellen Nerenberg about Dante's great love story, La Vita Nuova. #books #literature

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In Episode 697, Jacke talks to Kimberly Lau about her book Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale, which reveals the historical racial context that profoundly influenced these ubiquitous stories. #books #literature

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John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a powerhouse of a man: writer, lecturer, critic, social reformer -- and much else besides. In Episode 696, Jacke talks to Sara Atwood (Ruskin's Educational Ideals) about Ruskin and his wide-ranging influence on everyone from Tolstoy to Gandhi. #books #literature

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In Episode 695, Jacke talks to editorial director Sharmila Sen about the new book, Ten Indian Classics, which showcases the amazing literary works at the Murty Classical Library of India by bringing a rich selection of Indian classics to the public. #books #literature @harvardpress.bsky.social

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In Episode 694, Jacke talks to Dorian Lynskey about his book, Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, which explores what doomsday prophets have to say and what is revealed about people and cultures that listen to them. #books #literature @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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In Episode 693, Jacke talks to Alan Lightman about his new book, The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature, a gorgeous book that explores the science behind the universe's most stunning natural phenomena. #books #literature @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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In Episode 692, first Jacke talks to Radha Vatsal about her new novel, No. 10 Doyers Street, set in New York's Chinatown in 1907. Then Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen stops by to talk about her podcast The Five Books, which asks Jewish writers about the books that have influenced them. #books #literature

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In Episode 691, Jacke talks to serial biographer Carl Rollyson about his new book The Making of Sylvia Plath, which takes a fresh approach to understanding Plath - and helps to revise and reposition Plath's legacy. #books #literature

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Episode 690 on Coleridge is presented without commercial interruption. It originally ran on July 18, 2016. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the mysterious Person from Porlock whose visit to Coleridge interrupted the poet's vision of Kubla Khan, leaving the poem unfinished. #books #literature

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In Episode 689, Jacke talks to scholar Brian Vickers about his new book Thomas Kyd: A Dramatist Restored, the first full study of Kyd's life and works, in which Vickers discusses Kyd's accepted canon as well as exciting discoveries about his works. #books #literature @princetonupress.bsky.social

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In Episode 688, Jacke takes a look at Georges Simenon (1903-1989), his childhood and relationship with parents, his marriages and affairs, and the approach to narrative and prose that continues to delight readers and critics alike. #books #literature

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In Episode 687, Jacke talks to Fitzgerald scholar James West about his work editing the Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby, which celebrates 100 years of this enduring tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams. #books #literature @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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In Episode 686, Jacke talks to Stephanie Sandler about her new book The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989-2022, which covers the poetry that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union and in response to a brave new world. #books #literature @princetonupress.bsky.social

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In Episode 685, Jacke talks to scholar Tess Chakkalakal about her book A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt. Chesnutt's life in the South during Reconstruction made him one of the sharpest observers of race in America during the postwar years. #books #literature

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In Episode 684, Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, joins Jacke for a reading and discussion of Hawthorne's riveting short story "The Minister's Black Veil." #books #literature

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In Episode 683, Jacke talks to Moore scholar Cristanne Miller about Marianne Moore's life (1887-1972), Moore's work, and a new digital archive project that unites the two. #books #literature #poetry

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In Episode 681, Jacke presents the rousing conclusion to "The Jolly Corner," the fascinating story of nostalgia, friendship, and terror. PLUS Irish novelist Colm Tóibín (The Master, On James Baldwin) stops by to discuss his selection for the last book he will ever read. Enjoy! #books #literature

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Inspired by a trip to New York City, the place of his birth, Henry James wrote an astonishing story about a man who creeps through his childhood home late at night, searching for ghosts. In Episode 680, Jacke reads and analyzes the middle of Henry James's "The Jolly Corner." #books #literature

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In Episode 679, Jacke reads and comments upon the opening of Henry James's 1908 story "The Jolly Corner," in which a man revisits his childhood home in New York after a thirty-three year absence and finds himself chasing memories, ghosts, and other figments of his imagination. #books #literature

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In Episode 678, Pessoa biographer Bartholomew Ryan, author of Fernando Pessoa: A Critical Life, joins Jacke for a discussion of Pessoa's profound, endlessly innovative ideas. #books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Dylan Thomas: brilliant poet or self-indulgent blowhard? In Episode 677, Jacke talks to John Goodby, co-author of the biography Dylan Thomas: A Critical Life, about the misconceptions swirling around the famous Welsh poet. #books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Zora Neale Hurston was the most published African American woman writer of the first half of the 20th century. In Episode 675, Jacke talks to biographer Cheryl R. Hopson (Zora Neale Hurston: A Critical Life) about the life of this remarkable figure. #books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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“I admire Freud greatly,” the novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said, “as a comic writer.” In Episode 674, Jacke talks with author Joshua Ferris (The Dinner Party) about Nabokov's special hatred for Freud. [The episode is rebroadcast without commercial interruptions.] #books #literature

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Novelist and playwright Edna Ferber (1885-1968) lived a wondrous literary life. In Episode 673, Jacke talks to Julie Gilbert, her grandniece, about her new book Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film. #books #literature

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In Episode 672, Jacke talks to scholar Holly A. Baggett about her book Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review, which tells the story of the two women who founded the magazine and published groundbreaking modernist works such as Joyce's Ulysses. #books #literature

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How did Shakespeare become one of the greatest practitioners of the art form of tragedy? In Episode 671, Jacke talks to @rhodrilewis.bsky.social about his book Shakespeare's Tragic Art, a new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world. #books #literature

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In Episode 670, Jacke takes a look at the brief narrative form of the parable. How did parables get their name? What are their key features? Why did Jesus rely on them so heavily to communicate to his listeners? And what meaning does "A Parable" have for us today? #parables #literature #narrative

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In Episode 669, Jacke talks to the poet and her novelist husband, Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder, about how her obsession with Herman Melville's work during the pandemic led to the writing of Dayswork: A Novel. #books #literature

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In Episode 668, Jacke talks to @elysegraham.bsky.social about her work Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, which tells the story of the U.S. government's efforts to recruit academics and librarians and train them for espionage. #books #literature

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Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914), writing under the name Sui Sin Far, chronicled the lives of Chinese men and women living in America with humor and insight. In Episode 667, Jacke talks to novelist and scholar Victoria Namkung about An Immortal Book: Selected Writings by Sui Sin Far. #books #literature

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"Winter Dreams" (1922) was one of the short stories of the "Gatsby cluster," in which F. Scott Fitzgerald worked out ideas that would later become The Great Gatsby (1925). In Episode 666, HOL host Jacke Wilson and Mike Palindrome discuss the story, which is read in its entirety. #books #literature

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In 1819, John Keats quit his job as an assistant surgeon and began a fertile writing period in which he penned his poetic masterpieces. In Episode 665, presented without commercial interruption, HOL host Jacke Wilson discusses John Keats's odes with the scholar Anahid Nersessian. #books #literature

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Happy holidays! In Episode 664, presented without commercial interruption, Jacke revisits the second half of the classic James Joyce short story "The Dead." #books #literature

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Happy holidays! In Episode 663, presented without commercial interruption, Jacke revisits the first part of the the classic James Joyce holiday story, "The Dead." The second part will air tomorrow (December 24). #books #literature

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"The strength of undivided literature is not the neutralisation of directions, but the internationality of resistance, and to this resistance belong poetry, incarnation, sensuality, imaginative power and beauty." - Heinrich Böll (b. December 21, 1917), from his 1972 Nobel Lecture #books #literature

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What did writers - and in particular Black women writers - think about segregation in the 1930s-1950s? Did they view racial integration as a path to the promised land? In Episode 662, HOL host Jacke Wilson talks to Eve Dunbar about her book Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction. #books #literature

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Acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. Inspired by his work, Tóibín would soon become a lifelong fan. In Episode 661, Tóibín tells HOL host Jacke Wilson about that original encounter, what he most admires in Baldwin's work, and more. #books #literature

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In Episode 659, HOL host Jacke Wilson talks with @levgrossman.bsky.social, the bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy, about his new novel The Bright Sword, which focuses on some of the lesser-known characters of the legendary world of King Arthur. #books #literature

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In Episode 657, Jacke talks to Nicholas Jenkins (The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England) about Auden's relationship with the land of his birth, including his preoccupations with the vicissitudes of war, the trials of love, and the problems of identity. #whauden #literature #books

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In the latest episode of the History of Literature Podcast, host Jacke Wilson talks to Emily Van Duyne about her book Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation, which delivers a nuanced, passionate exploration of #sylviaplath one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.

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