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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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Congrats to HOL guest Anne Enright on winning the Windham-Campbell prize! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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#Theatre Thomas Middleton In Our Time Today 09:00 BBC Radio 4 One of the star writers for the London stage in the age of Shakespeare, much in demand for his own work and for rewriting the work of others. @oldfortunatus.bsky.social @lucycmunro Michelle O’Callaghan www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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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 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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My quick review of Monica Youn's groundbreaking poetry collection FROM FROM www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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talking f. scott with @jackewilson.bsky.social on the History of Literature! www.historyofliterature.com/666-winter-d...

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‘What’s going on in Bob Dylan’s head’: Mr Tambourine Man lyrics up for auction

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"There’s an English idiom, 'Stop and think.' Nobody can think unless he stops." — Hannah Arendt

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52 years ago today, School House Rock made its debut on ABC. Have you ever wondered who the voice was behind your favorite School House Rock songs? Meet Jack Sheldon performing a live rendition of Conjunction Junction.

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so, i stumbled across an old blog of mine from 2007 when i read powell's dance for the first time. #anthonypowelltogether poussinonbookspines.blogspot.com/2007/03/page...

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Julian Lennon: ‘I’m not part of the Beatles inner circle – I never have been’

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"I wish you benevolent demons for the New Year." — Walter Benjamin

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Wow!

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Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

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Must have heard this song a thousand times. (It was summer, there was nothing else on.) But it's a great song! RIP Linda Lavin.

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Next up from @parergon.bsky.social 41.2 is Ros Smith, whose article ‘Marginalia as texts’, argues that the distinctive aspects of John Emmerson’s collection allow us to rethink what marginalia is and who might be considered to be marginalists in early modern England. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

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This account just does not miss…

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Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

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Remember on this day that, canonically, George Bailey’s re-discovery of the value of his life takes place at the same time as the failed hit attempt on Vito Corleone.

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Awesome www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Best Scrooge I've ever seen

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Might need to catch this one in Imax... www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

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"That a beginning be made man was created." — Augustine The final lines from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. She turned to Augustine to find the principle of natality as the ground for action. It means: the world can always be other than it is if we decide to act.

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Drinking tea and coffee linked to lower risk of head and neck cancer in study

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Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin action figures

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Rickey was unlike anyone else. A sad day.

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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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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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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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Great list! Might need to stuff a few stockings with Maigret and Marple this year. (If there's room for them with all the Lindt chocolate bars, my Swiss grandmother's tradition.)

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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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I know the feeling

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There's only one of these I really ever buy, but a guy can dream!

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Can’t get here fast enough @literaturesc.bsky.social

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Two things in this article give me hope: 1) Kate McKinnon reads a LOT of books, and 2) Kate McKinnon apparently doesn't have laundry machines in her apartment. Such a New Yorker!

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My son grew up on these! Very sad.

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"The Schatzalp provided the architectural details for the fictional Berghof sanitorium, but its interior was modeled after the Waldsanatorium." #manntogether theamericanscholar.org/under-a-spel...

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Fascinating. Not sure I could go into this room, though. My heart might break into pieces. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

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Ashe. “I recommend old age,” Nikki Giovanni said. “There’s just nothing as wonderful as knowing you have done your job.” Rest in power www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

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For those of us interested in copyright copyrightlately.com/public-domai...

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#11: images.app.goo.gl/trmUJ9S8aFs2...

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This one is for everyone - and a great book to put on your holiday shopping lists!

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Surprisingly good. A jolt of sunshine on an otherwise dreary December morning...

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