The History of Literature

By Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate

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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

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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.

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