The History of Literature
By Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate
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Episodes: 644
Please add timestamps
Jun 16, 2023
I love the parts of the podcast that actually talk about literature, bt it often takes 20+mins to get there. Please add timestamps to the episodes to improve the listening experience (as a listening contract + we can listen to only the lit)
a bored listener
May 25, 2023
I really tried to give it a chance, but after 15 boring, tiresome minutes, I gave up.
this is not a podcast, this sounds like somebody reading many unrelated posts from Facebook.
Dec 19, 2022
Spanish fan
May 22, 2022
Thank you for your contagious passion!!
Mar 24, 2022
Description
Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.
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664 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2 [Ad-Free Encore Version]
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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663 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 1 [Ad-Free Encore Edition]
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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662 Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction - Black Women Writing Under Segregation (with Eve Dunbar) | My Last Book with Deni Kasa
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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661 James Baldwin (with Colm Tóibín)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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660 "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | My Last Book with Amelia Possanza
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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659 The Legend of King Arthur (with Lev Grossman)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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658 "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay | Literary Journeys (with John McMurtrie)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele Pedulla
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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656 Novelist Chigozie Obioma on Literature, Life, and His Love for Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day [HOL Encore]
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with Mary Flannery
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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654 Loving (and Reclaiming) Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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653 J.D. Salinger
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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652 Writing a Comic Novel (with Charles Baxter) | My Last Book with Bill Eville
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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651 Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey | The Heroine's Labyrinth (with Douglas Burton) | My Last Book with Douglas Burton
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway | My Last Book with David L. Cooper
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book with Sandra Spanier
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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647 The Brontes [HOL Encore]
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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646 Discovering a Long Lost Slave Narrative (with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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645 Richard Wright
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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644 Jack Kerouac (with Steven Belletto)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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643 Aesop and His Fables (with Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with Boel Westin
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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642 Theater and Democracy (with James Shapiro)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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641 Blood, Guts, and Books - Inside the Medieval Scriptorium (with Sara Charles) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Coggeshall
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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640 Chaucer the Merry Bard (with Mary Flannery)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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639 Immersed in Print (with Geoffrey Turnovsky) | My Last Book with Liz Rosenberg
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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638 Thomas Mann
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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637 From the Archives - Heart of Darkness (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Fred Waitzkin
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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636 Emily Dickinson's Letters (with Cristanne Miller)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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617 Politics and Grace in Early Modern Literature (with Deni Kasa) | Mike Recommends... James Baldwin! | My Last Book with Carlos Allende
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter
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May 30, 2024 |
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610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James MacManus
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May 27, 2024 |
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609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Dabashi
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May 20, 2024 |
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608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Gareth Russell
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May 16, 2024 |
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607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My Last Book with Edward Chamberlin
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May 13, 2024 |
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606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe)
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May 06, 2024 |
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605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)
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May 02, 2024 |
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604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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602 Thomas Hardy's "Spellbound Palace," The Birthplace of the King James Bible, and a Royal Setting for Shakespeare and His Plays (with Gareth Russell) | My Last Book with Jess Cotton
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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598 Forgotten Women of Literature 8 - Charmian Kittredge London (with Iris Jamahl Dunkle) | What's Great About Christopher Isherwood (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Duncan Yoon
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas Dames
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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596 The Power of Stories (with J Edward Chamberlin) | Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson | Flannery O'Connor (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Shin Yu Pai
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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595 Machiavelli (with Gabriele Pedulla) | My Last Book with Sarah Ruden
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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594 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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593 Vladimir Propp (with Mike Palindrome) | The Russian Gothic (with Valeria Sobol) | My Last Book with Vanessa Riley
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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592 Virgil (with Sarah Ruden) | Darwin and Gaskell | My Last Book with Tom Holland
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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591 William Wordsworth
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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590 Blotted Lines (with Adhaar Noor Desai) | My Last Book with Lara Vetter
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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589 Dante and Friendship (with Elizabeth Coggeshall) | My Last Book with Dr Tara Bynum
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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588 China in African Literature (with Duncan Yoon) | My Last Book with Katherine Howe
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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587 Byron's Letters (with Andrew Stauffer) | My Last Book with Jonathan van Belle
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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586 The Czech Manuscripts Hoax (with David Cooper) | My Last Book with Jesse Kavadlo
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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585 Plots and the Modern Novelist (with Pardis Dabashi) | My Last Book with Anne Enright
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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584 A Conversation with James MacManus | My Last Book with Peter K Andersson
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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583 Margaret Cavendish (with Francesca Peacock) | My Last Book with Patrick Whitmarsh
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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582 Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Myron Tuman
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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581 The Venerable Bede (with Michelle P. Brown) | My Last Book with Adrian Edwards
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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580 Thoreau at Work (with Jonathan van Belle) | My Last Book with Andrew Pettegree
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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579 New Year New You! Conversations with Bethanne Patrick and Aislyn Greene
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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578 Chapters (with Nicholas Dames) | My Last Book (with Hamid Dabashi)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Life and Art from FT Weekend: Books Books Books!
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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577 'Twas the Night Before Controversy - The Raging Dispute Over a Classic Christmas Poem | My Last Book (with Marion Turner)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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576 Love and Art in a Time of Hate - How European Artists and Intellectuals Survived the 1930s (with Florian Illies)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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575 A History of the Fool (with Peter Andersson) | My Last Book with Ed Simon
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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574 The Book at War (with Andrew Pettegree) | My Last Book with Robin Lane Fox
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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573 A Conversation with Anne Enright, Winner of the Man Booker Prize | My Last Book with Christopher Morash
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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571 Shakespeare's White Others (with David Sterling Brown) | My Last Book with Shilpi Suneja
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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570 Pirates! (with Katharine Howe)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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569 The Man with a Passion for Medieval Manuscripts (with Christopher de Hamel) | My Last Book with Maaheen Ahmed
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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568 The Tempest (with Laurie Frankel)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zipes
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with Honor Cargill-Martin
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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561 Homer and His Iliad (with Robin Lane Fox) | A Quick Hit of Witches (with Katherine Howe)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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560 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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559 Washington Irving | My Last Book with Joe Skinner
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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558 Black Nature Writing (with Erin Sharkey)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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557 Somerset Maugham (with Tan Twan Eng)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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556 The Story Behind a Children's Classic - Anna Sewell and the Writing of 'Black Beauty' (with Celia Brayfield)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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555 What Was Shakespeare Really Like? (with Sir Stanley Wells) | My Last Book with David Ellis
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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554 John Ashbery (with Jess Cotton) | My Last Book with David van den Berg
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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553 A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | My Last Book with Max Saunders
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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551 Charlotte Lennox and The Female Quixote (Forgotten Women of Literature 8) | My Last Book with Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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550 F Scott Fitzgerald (with Arthur Krystal) | My Last Book with Jed Rasula
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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549 Forgotten Women of Literature 7 - Ursula Parrott (with Marsha Gordon)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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548 Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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547 Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (with William Egginton)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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546 The Cambridge Companion to Comics (with Maaheen Ahmed) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Winkler
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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545 Milton's Paradise Lost - A Personal Journey (with Ed Simon)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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544 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (with Mike Palindrome)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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543 A Philosopher's Guide to Rome (with Scott Samuelson)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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542 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James (Pt 2)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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541 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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540 A Black Queen in Exile (with Vanessa Riley) | My Last Book with Jolene Hubbs
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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539 Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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538 Writing Our Extinction (with Patrick Whitmarsh) | My Last Book with Christina Jarvis
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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537 The Persian Prince (with Hamid Dabashi)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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536 Literary New Orleans (with TR Johnson) | My Last Book with Len Webb and Vincent Williams
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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535 The Australian Novelist Who Writes History Through Women's Eyes (with Pip Williams)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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531 Fairy Tales (with Jack Zipes)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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529 Ten Thousand Things and the Asian American Experience (with Shin Yu Pai) | My Last Book with Ross Benjamin
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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528 Literary Dublin (with Chris Morash) | A Poem by Shin Yu Pai | My Last Book with John Higgs
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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527 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (with Elizabeth Winkler) | My Last Book with Megan Marshall
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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525 Don DeLillo (with Jesse Kavadlo)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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524 Growing Old with The Graduate - Mike Nichols, Roger Ebert, Charles Webb, and Me
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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520 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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519 Shakespeare's First Folio (with Emma Smith) | My Last Book with Luke Parker
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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518 The Curse of the Marquis de Sade - A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History (with Joel Warner) | My Last Book with Diane Rayor
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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517 The Marquis de Sade
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May 29, 2023 |
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516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor)
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May 25, 2023 |
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515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer
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May 22, 2023 |
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514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer
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May 18, 2023 |
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513 The Writers of Northern Ireland (with Alexander Poots) | My Last Book with Laura Lee
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May 15, 2023 |
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512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with Scott Carter
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May 11, 2023 |
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511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell
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May 08, 2023 |
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510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2)
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May 04, 2023 |
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509 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 1)
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May 01, 2023 |
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508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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507 The Class of 1989 - A Special Year in Black Cinema (with Len Webb and Vincent Williams)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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506 Black Shakespeare (with Ian Smith) | My Last Book with David Castillo and William Egginton
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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505 Ford Madox Ford (with Max Saunders) | My Last Book with Bethanne Patrick
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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504 Persuasion (Book Two) (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Juliette Bretan
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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503 Persuasion (Book One) (with Gina Buonaguro)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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501 The Naked World (with Irina Mashinski)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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500 Episode 500! Meg White, Listener Emails, Johnson and Boswell, and More! (with Margot Livesey)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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498 A New Novel by a Legendary Independent Filmmaker (with John Sayles)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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495 The Creative Spark (with Joe Skinner)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Introducing YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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487 Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche (with John Higgs)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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486 The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (with Melissa J. Homestead)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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485 Reading Pleasures - Everyday Black Living in Early America (with Dr Tara Bynum)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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484 Reading John Milton (with Stephen Dobranski)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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483 Margaret Fuller (with Megan Marshall)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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482 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part Two)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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480 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (with Ritchie Robertson)
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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477 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 2 - "The Vice of Reading")
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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476 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 1 - "Xingu")
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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475 Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (with Emma Smith)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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474 Herman Melville
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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472 The Art of Not Knowing
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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471 Angels of War (with Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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470 Two Christmas Days - A Holiday Story by Ida B. Wells
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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469 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (with Gina Buonaguro)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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462 My Last Book (with Laurie Frankel)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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460 Rabindranath Tagore
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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459 Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature (with Anna Beer)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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458 Alexander Pushkin (with Robert Chandler)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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457 The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson's Editor (The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Story) | PLUS Making (Book) Dreams Come True (with Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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456 Maya Angelou
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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455 Gustave Flaubert
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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453 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Dr Rae Wynn-Grant)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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452 Charles and Mary Lamb | A Letter To My Transgender Daughter (with Carolyn Hays)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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451 Mary Shelley
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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442 Prince, Emperor, Sage - Bābur and the Bāburnāma (with Anuradha)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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441 When Novels Were Novel (with Jason Feifer)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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440 Emma's Pick - "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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439 Poets' Guide to Economics (with John Ramsden)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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The History of Literature Presents: Missing Pages
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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435 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 2 - The Virginia Woolf Story That Changed Everything
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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434 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 1 - Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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433 Emma's Pick - "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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431 Langston Hughes
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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430 In Shakespeare's Shadow (with Michael Blanding)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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429 Books I Have Loved (with Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, and Jim Shepard)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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428 Edward Gibbon (with Zachary Karabell)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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427 Bashō's Best - Haiku and the Essence of Life
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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426 Matsuo Bashō - Haiku's Greatest Master
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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425 Tom Stoppard (with Scott Carter)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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424 Karel Čapek (with Ian Coss)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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423 Roger Ebert
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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422 Wallace Stegner (with Melodie Edwards)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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421 HOL Goes to the Movies (A Best-of Episode with Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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419 Christina Rossetti
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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417 What Happened on Roanoke Island? (with Kimberly Brock)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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415 "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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412 HOL Goes to War (with Elizabeth Samet, Matt Gallagher, and Tom Roston)
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May 30, 2022 |
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411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
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May 26, 2022 |
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410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)
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May 23, 2022 |
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409 "Fear and Trembling" (The Story of Abraham and Isaac) by Soren Kierkegaard
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May 19, 2022 |
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408 Dylan Thomas (with Scott Carter)
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May 16, 2022 |
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407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
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May 12, 2022 |
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406 A World in Turmoil - 1967-1971 (with Beverly Gologorsky)
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May 09, 2022 |
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405 Kierkegaard Falls in Love
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May 05, 2022 |
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404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)
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May 02, 2022 |
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403 The Wonderful World of Mysteries (A Best-of-HOL Episode)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Introducing "The History of Literature"
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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401 HOL Presents: Melissa Chadburn and The Throwaways (A Storybound Project) | PLUS The First Work of Literature by an African American Author
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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400 Anniversary Special! (with Mike Palindrome)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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399 Stephen Crane (with Linda H. Davis)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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398 Fernando Pessoa
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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397 Plath, Hughes, and the "Other Woman" - Assia Wevill and Her Writings (with Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter Steinberg)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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394 Freud and Fiction | PLUS An Assia Wevill Preview
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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393 Writers in Odessa, Ukraine's "Black Sea Pearl" | PLUS Margot Reads Boswell
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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392 Sigmund Freud
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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390 Victor Hugo
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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388 Sense and Sensibility
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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387 Loving Virginia Woolf | Fashion in Literature (with Lauren S. Cardon)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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386 Gogol's Ukrainian Nights | HOL Presents "Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript" (A Book Dreams Podcast)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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385 The Gettysburg Address
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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384 A Writer's Tools - Top 10 Literary Terms and Devices | PLUS F. Scott Fitzgerald's Writing Advice
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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383 The Radical Woman Who Wrote 'Goodnight Moon' - The Story of Margaret Wise Brown (with the New Yorker's Anna Holmes)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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382 Forbidden Victorian Love (with Mimi Matthews) | The Poet Who Hated Love | Does Margot Still Love Boswell and Johnson
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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381 C Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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380 Ian Fleming | PLUS The Black James Bond
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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379 Gwendolyn Brooks | Bharati Preview 2 (with Mira Sundara Rajan)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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378 Liu Xinwu and the "Scar Literature" of China (with Jeremy Tiang) | Bharati Sneak Preview (with Mira Sundara Rajan)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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377 The Brothers Grimm | Jeremy Tiang Sneak Preview
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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375 The Power of Literature | PLUS Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (with Margot Livesey)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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373 Roald Dahl
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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370 Oscar Wilde - A Life (with Matthew Sturgis) | PLUS A Glimpse of Literary Hell (with Scott G. Bruce)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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369 Rilke and the Search for God
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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368 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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367 The Beatles and the Power of Narrative | Tolstoy on Twitter
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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366 Evelyn Waugh (with Phil Klay)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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364 Bob Dylan, the Blues, and Songs with Literary Power (with Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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363 William Butler Yeats
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel) | Tolstoy's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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359 Forgotten Women of Literature 6 - Eliza Haywood and Fantomina | PLUS Keats's Letter on Shakespeare and "Negative Capability"
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) | Charles Dickens's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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357 Little Women Remixed (with Bethany C. Morrow) | Thomas Jefferson's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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356 Louisa May Alcott
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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355 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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354 Treasure Island Remixed (with C.B. Lee)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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353 Oscar Wilde in Prison (with Scott Carter)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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352 Charles Baudelaire (with Aaron Poochigian)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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350 Mystery! (with Jonah Lehrer)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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348 Philip Roth (with Mike Palindrome)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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347 The Prisoner and His Prize - The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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346 For Whom the Beast Leaps
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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345 Great Literary Centuries (with Mike Palindrome)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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344 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Beast
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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343 The Feast in the Jungle
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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342 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (with Laura Marsh)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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341 Constance and Henry - The Story of "Miss Grief"
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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340 Forgotten Women of Literature 5 - Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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339 Jack Kerouac
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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338 Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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337 Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus (with A. Natasha Joukovsky)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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336 Painting the Paintings in Literature (with Charlie Stein)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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335 Machado de Assis (with Cláudia Laitano)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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334 Katherine Mansfield
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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333 Tristram Shandy
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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332 Hamlet (with Laurie Frankel)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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331 "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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330 Middlemarch (with Yang Huang)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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329 Miguel de Cervantes
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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328 Aristophanes (with Aaron Poochigian)
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May 31, 2021 |
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327 Natalia Ginzburg
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May 24, 2021 |
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HoL Presents The REAL Little Women (from the Book Dreams Podcast)
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May 20, 2021 |
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326 Rimbaud
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May 17, 2021 |
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325 Philip Larkin
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May 10, 2021 |
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HoL Presents The Graduate (from the Overdue Podcast)
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May 06, 2021 |
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324 Ralph Ellison | Blocked! (Top 10 Cases of Writer's Block)
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May 03, 2021 |
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323 Salman Rushdie
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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322 Djuna Barnes
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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321 Thucydides
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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320 Henry James
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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319 Frances (Fanny) Burney
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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317 My Antonia by Willa Cather
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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315 Gabriel García Márquez and the Incredible and Sad (and Marvelous) World
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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313 "Spring Snow" (from The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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312 Yukio Mishima
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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310 Lorraine Hansberry
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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309 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (a Storybound project)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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308 New Westerns (with Anna North)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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306 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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305 The Remains of the Day
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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304 Kazuo Ishiguro (with Chigozie Obioma)
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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303 The Search for Darcy - Jane Austen, Tom Lefroy, and the World of Pride and Prejudice
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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302 Jane in Love - The Story of Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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301 Reading Proust with Strangers
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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300 Frederick Douglass
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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299 The Cherry Orchard
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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298 Amyra León!
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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297 The Scarlet Letter
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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296 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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295 The Past, The Future, and Chekhov
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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292 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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291 The Book of Firsts (with Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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290 The Seagull (Chekhov)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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289 Swann's Way
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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288 The Triumph of Broadway (with Michael Riedel)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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287 The Heptameron | Marguerite de Navarre
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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286 JRR Tolkien
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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285 Herodotus
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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284 Westerns (with Anna North)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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283 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Top 10 Literary Modes of Transportation
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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282 Science Fiction
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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281 The Great Gatsby
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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280 Romance Novels
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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279 Jean Rhys
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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278 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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277 George Orwell
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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276 Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Detective Story | "The Purloined Letter"
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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274 Baudelaire and the Flowers of Evil
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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273 The Book for Book Lovers - The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book (with Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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272 "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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271 "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Solo Special!)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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270 Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat"
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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269 Shakespeare and the Generation of Genius - The Role of Performing Arts in Education (with Robin Lithgow)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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268 Forgotten Women of Literature 4 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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267 Great Scot! The 6 Best Scottish Writers (with Margot Livesey)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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266 Bonus Episode! "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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265 Forgotten Women of Literature 3 | Aemelia Lanyer
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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264 HoL Presents Tommy Orange's "Copperopolis" (a Storybound Project) | PLUS a Visit from Jacke Lonelyhearts
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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263 Forgotten Women of Literature 2 - Cai Yan (Wenji)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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262 Ovid
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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261 Forgotten Women of Literature - Enheduanna (with Charles Halton)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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260 HoL Presents Diksha Basu from the Storybound Project
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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259 Shakespeare's Best | Sonnets 129 and 130 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" and "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Hatchet Jobs! When Reviewers Attack
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Shakespeare's Best | Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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TS Eliot | The Waste Land
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Anna Karenina
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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The Brontes' Secret Scandal (with Finola Austin)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Beatrix Potter
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Stendhal
|
Jul 20, 2020 |
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The History of Literature Presents: Storybound (with Mitchell S. Jackson)
|
Jul 16, 2020 |
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Raymond Carver (with Tom Perrotta)
|
Jul 13, 2020 |
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Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Joyce Carol Oates (with Evie Lee)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Alexandre Dumas
|
Jul 02, 2020 |
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Keeping Secrets! Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, and the CIA (with Lara Prescott)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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William Faulkner | Dry September
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Literary Battle Royal 2 - The Cold War (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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More Thoreau | Experiencing Nature (with Nina Shengold)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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The Seven Deadly Sins
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (with Amanda Stern)
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 3
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 2
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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C.S. Lewis
|
May 28, 2020 |
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
|
May 25, 2020 |
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James Baldwin - Going To Meet the Man
|
May 21, 2020 |
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William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
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May 18, 2020 |
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Baldwin v Faulkner
|
May 14, 2020 |
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"The Country Husband" by John Cheever
|
May 07, 2020 |
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Jorge Luis Borges
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May 04, 2020 |
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"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
|
Apr 30, 2020 |
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Albert Camus
|
Apr 27, 2020 |
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"Speech Sounds" by Octavia Butler
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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The Best of the Bard: Top 10 Greatest Lines in Shakespeare
|
Apr 20, 2020 |
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The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino | The African Library Project
|
Apr 16, 2020 |
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A Lost Spring (with Professor Mitchell Nathanson)
|
Apr 13, 2020 |
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After Rain by William Trevor
|
Apr 09, 2020 |
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Extra by Yiyun Li
|
Apr 02, 2020 |
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
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Mar 30, 2020 |
|
Kate Chopin
|
Mar 26, 2020 |
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Kipling, Kingsley, and Conan Doyle - When Writers Go to War (with Sarah LeFanu)
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Special Quarantine Edition - Gusev by Anton Chekhov
|
Mar 20, 2020 |
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Special Quarantine Edition - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Edith Wharton
|
Mar 09, 2020 |
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More John Keats
|
Mar 02, 2020 |
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Conflict Literature (with Matt Gallagher)
|
Feb 24, 2020 |
|
John Keats
|
Feb 17, 2020 |
|
Agatha Christie (with Gillian Gill)
|
Feb 10, 2020 |
|
Karl Ove Knausgaard
|
Feb 03, 2020 |
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Saul Bellow
|
Jan 27, 2020 |
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Living Poetry (with Bob Holman)
|
Jan 20, 2020 |
|
William Blake
|
Jan 13, 2020 |
|
Chekhov
|
Jan 06, 2020 |
|
Virginia Woolf (with Gillian Gill)
|
Dec 26, 2019 |
|
The Magic Mountain
|
Dec 16, 2019 |
|
Jonathan Swift
|
Dec 09, 2019 |
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Sylvia Plath
|
Dec 02, 2019 |
|
Margaret Atwood
|
Nov 26, 2019 |
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One-Hit Wonders! (with Mike Palindrome)
|
Nov 18, 2019 |
|
Thomas Hardy
|
Nov 11, 2019 |
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George Saunders (with Mike Palindrome)
|
Nov 04, 2019 |
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Macbeth
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Alfred Hitchcock (with Mike Palindrome)
|
Oct 21, 2019 |
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Chinua Achebe
|
Oct 10, 2019 |
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Blood and Sympathy in the 19th Century (with Professor Ann Kibbie)
|
Oct 03, 2019 |
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Weeping for Gogol
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes (with Yuval Taylor)
|
Sep 16, 2019 |
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The Brontes
|
Sep 09, 2019 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
|
Aug 31, 2019 |
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Marcel Proust
|
Jul 22, 2019 |
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George Eliot
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Samuel Beckett
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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182 Darkness and Light (with Jessica Harper)
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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181 David Foster Wallace (with Mike Palindrome)
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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179 The Oscars by Decade (with Brian Price)
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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178 "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (with Evie Lee)
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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177 Sherwood Anderson (with Alyson Hagy)
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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176 William Carlos Williams (The Use of Force)
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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175 Virgin Whore - The Virgin Mary in Medieval Literature and Culture (with Professor Emma Maggie Solberg)
|
Jan 16, 2019 |
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174 David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Special!)
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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172 Holiday Movies (with Brian Price)
|
Dec 19, 2018 |
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171 To Sleep Perchance to Dream - On Writers and Death
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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170 Toni Morrison
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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169 Dostoevsky
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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168 Jhumpa Lahiri ("The Third and Final Continent")
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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167 F Scott Fitzgerald
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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166 Stephen King (with the Sisters of Slaughter)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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165 Ezra Pound
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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164 Karl Marx
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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163 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with Sarah Bird)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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162 Ernest Hemingway
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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161 Voltaire
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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160 Ray Bradbury (with Carolyn Cohagan)
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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158 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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157 Travel Books (with Mike Palindrome)
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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156 The Sonnet
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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155 Plato
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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154 John Milton
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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153 Charles Dickens
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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152 George Sand
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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151 Viking Poetry - The Voluspa (with Noah Tetzner)
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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150 Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog"
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World)
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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148 Great Literary Hoaxes
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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147 Leo Tolstoy
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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146 Power Ranking the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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145 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story of Lord Byron
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May 31, 2018 |
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144 Food in Literature (with Ronica Dhar)
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May 21, 2018 |
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143 A Soldier's Heart - Teaching Literature at the U.S. Military Academy (with Professor Elizabeth Samet)
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May 14, 2018 |
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142 Comedian Joe Pera Talks with Us (with Joe Pera)
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May 07, 2018 |
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141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome)
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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140 Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai)
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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139 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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138 Why Poetry (with Matthew Zapruder)
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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137 Haruki Murakami
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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136 The Kids Are Alright (Aren't They?) - Making the Case for Literature
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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135 Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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134 The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life
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Mar 10, 2018 |
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133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey)
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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132 Top 10 Literary Villains
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio)
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with Mike Palindrome and Reagan Sova)
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Palindrome)
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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127 Gertrude Stein
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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126 Animals in Literature (Part One)
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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125 Raymond Carver
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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124 James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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123 James Joyce’s The Dead (Part 1)
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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122 Young James Joyce
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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121 A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man – John Ashbery’s Early Years (with Karin Roffman)
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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120 The Astonishing Emily Dickinson
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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119 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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118 Oscar’s Ghost – The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy (with Laura Lee)
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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117 Machiavelli and The Prince
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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116 Ghost Stories!
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Oct 28, 2017 |
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115 The Genius of Alice Munro
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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114 Christopher Marlowe – What Happened and What If?
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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113 Special Episode – Introducing the Smart Awesome Show!
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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112 The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor – Unpacking Nabokov’s Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris)
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Sep 30, 2017 |
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111 The Americanest American – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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110 Heart of Darkness – Then and Now
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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109 Women of Mystery (with Christina Kovac)
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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108 Beowulf (aka Need a Hero? Get a Grip…)
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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107 The Man and the Myth – Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (with Mattias Bostrom)
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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106 Literature Goes to the Movies, Part Two – Flops, Bombs, and Stinkeroos
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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105 Funny Women, Crimes Against Book Clubs, George Orwell, and More (with Kathy Cooperman)
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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104 King Lear
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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103 Literature Goes to the Movies Part 1 – Great Adaptations
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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102 Pablo Neruda
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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100 The Greatest Books with Numbers in the Title
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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99 History and Mystery (with Radha Vatsal)
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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98 Great Literary Feuds
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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97 Dad Poetry (with Professor Bill)
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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96 Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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95 The Runaway Poets – The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
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May 29, 2017 |
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94 Smoke, Dusk, and Fire – The Jean Toomer Story
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May 22, 2017 |
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93 Robert Frost Finds a Friend
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May 16, 2017 |
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92 The Books of Our Lives
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May 12, 2017 |
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91 In Which John Donne Decides to Write a Poem About a Flea
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May 05, 2017 |
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90 Mark Twain’s Final Request
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Apr 28, 2017 |
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89 Primo Levi
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Apr 21, 2017 |
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88 The Harlem Renaissance
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Apr 14, 2017 |
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87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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86 Don Juan in Literature (aka The Case of the Red-Hot Lover)
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Apr 02, 2017 |
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85 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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84 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
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Mar 17, 2017 |
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83 Overrated! Top 10 Books You Don’t Need to Read
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Mar 10, 2017 |
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82 Robinson Crusoe
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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81 Faust (aka The Devil Went Down to Germany)
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Feb 24, 2017 |
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80 Power Play! Shakespeare’s Henry V
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Feb 17, 2017 |
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79 Music That Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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78 Jane Eyre, The Good Soldier, Giovanni’s Room (with Margot Livesey)
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Feb 03, 2017 |
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77 Top 10 Literary Cities
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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76 Darkness and the Power of Literature – The Forbidden Stories of North Korea (with Terry Hong)
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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75 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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74 Great First Chapters (with Vu Tran)
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Jan 01, 2017 |
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73 Javier Marias and the Philosophical Novel
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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72 The Best Christmas Stories in Literature
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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70 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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Dec 05, 2016 |
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69 Virginia Woolf and Her Enemies (with Professor Andrea Zemgulys) / Children’s Books
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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68 Listener Feedback and Thanksgiving Thoughts
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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67 Pascal’s Wager and an American Election
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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66 James Baldwin, Wallace Stegner, GB Tran, Lois Duncan (with author Shawna Yang Ryan)
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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65 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler)
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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64 Dorothy Parker
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter)
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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62 Bad Poetry
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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61 In the Mood for a Good Book – Wharton, Murakami, Chandler, and Fowles (with Vu Tran)
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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60 Great Literary Endings
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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59 Flannery O’Connor
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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58 Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists (with Professor Paul Peppis)
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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57 Borges, Munro, Davis, Barthelme – All About Short Stories (And Long Ones Too)
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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56 Shelley, HD, Yeats, Frost, Stevens – The Poetry of Ruins (with Professor Bill Hogan)
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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55 James Joyce (with Vincent O’Neill)
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Aug 19, 2016 |
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54 The Greatest Books Ever (Part 2)
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Aug 12, 2016 |
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53 Romeo and Juliet
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Aug 05, 2016 |
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52 Recommend This! The Best 101 Books for College-Bound Readers
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Jul 29, 2016 |
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51 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Person from Porlock – A Literary Mystery
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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50 Othello
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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49 MFA Programs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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48 Hamlet
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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46 Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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45 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 2)
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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44 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 1)
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May 30, 2016 |
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43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger)
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May 23, 2016 |
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42 Was Prince a Poet?
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May 16, 2016 |
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41 The New Testament (with Professor Kyle Keefer)
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May 09, 2016 |
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40 Radha Vatsal, Author of “A Front Page Affair”
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May 02, 2016 |
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39 Graham Greene
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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38 Literary Duos (Part Two)
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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37 Literary Duos (Part One)
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus)
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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35 A Conversation with Ronica Dhar
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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33 – The Bhagavad Gita
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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32 The Best Debut Novels of All Time (A Conversation with the President of the Literature Supporters’ Club)
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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28 The Ramayana
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Jan 25, 2016 |
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27 The Upanishads (Part Two)
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Jan 18, 2016 |
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11 The Upanishads (Part One)
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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9 Confucius
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Jan 04, 2016 |
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8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry)
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Dec 21, 2015 |
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7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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5 Greek Tragedy (Part One)
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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4 Sappho
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Nov 23, 2015 |
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3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso
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Nov 16, 2015 |
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3 Homer
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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2A The Book of Job
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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2 The Hebrew Bible
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Oct 26, 2015 |
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1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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1 The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Oct 12, 2015 |
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Episode 0 – Battling the Beast
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Oct 10, 2015 |