In 1886, the twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was practicing medicine, supporting his family, falling in and out love, writing pieces for newspapers at a furious pace - and gradually becoming one of the greatest short story writers the world has ever seen. In this episode, Jacke talks to Bob Blaisdell, author of Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a L ... Show More
Aug 31
827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare
The second half of the twentieth century was marked by an extreme increase in America's prison population, from roughly 250,000 inmates in 1940 to well over two million by 2008. At the same time, American readers were devouring mysteries, thrillers, detective novels, police proce ... Show More
1h 23m
Aug 27
826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washington Irving and Other "Minor Writers" | Notes from the History of Literature Podcast Tour!
At the time of Washington Irving's death, he was the most famous and widely praised American writer of his or any other era. But his reputation soon dwindled, and today he's known primarily as the author of just two stories ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"), wh ... Show More
1h 19m
Aug 24
825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley
In 1895, Henry James suffered through a terrible failure, as his play Guy Domville was greeted by hoots, jeers, and tomatoes being thrown at the play's author. James responded by starting work on his masterpiece The Turn of the Screw, which tells the story of a governess and the ... Show More
1h 8m
Sep 2021
THE MAN IN THE CASE by ANTON CHEKHOV
Chekhov's 1898 story "The Man In A Case", like many of his stories, was a comment on the social and political atmosphere prevalent in Russia at the time, and for that he was criticized often. This story was the first part of what has become known as "The Little Trilogy", along wi ... Show More
35m 37s
May 2026
THE SCHOOL MISTRESS by ANTON CHEKHOV
🎙️ 🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "The Schoolmistress" by Anton Chekhov In this quietly heartbreaking story, Anton Chekhov turns his attention to the life of a rural schoolteacher whose world is shaped by duty, exhaustion, and the small indignities of life on the edge of poverty. "The Schoolm ... Show More
24m 30s
Sep 2024
How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons
<p>Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol are like miniature models of the world and how they can teach us to transcend our own limitations. (R)</p><p>For many years, author George Saunders taught a writing mastercl ... Show More
49m 42s
Sep 2021
GOOSEBERRIES by ANTON CHEKHOV
Ivan Ivanovich tells his friends the story of his brother who, after working in a small office in the city for many years, finally bought an estate in the country, where his life changed- but did it change for the better? Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiesp ... Show More
28m 39s
Feb 2024
The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov (Rebroadcast)
<p>Feeling stressed? Relax tonight with The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov, a short story to help you fall asleep. First published in 1899, this story unfolds the relationship between a cynical, older, married man and a young, married woman while vacationing in Yalta. It is c ... Show More
43m 48s
Sep 2025
The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]
The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook. Genre: tragedy Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant young scholar worn down by years of intense study. On the advice of friends, he retreats to the quiet countryside estate of Yegor Pesotsky, a devoted hortic ... Show More
1h 17m