Jacke reads "Odour of Chrysanthemums," D.H. Lawrence's story about a woman waiting for her husband, a coal miner, to come home. Then Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, stops by to discuss his trip to the Proust Conference and his thoughts on Lawrence's classic short story.
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Oct 19
837 Ghost Month (with Simon Wroe) | Madness and Murder - The Story of Charles and Mary Lamb
Jacke gets ready for the Halloween season with an episode filled with madness, murder, and ghosts! First, he recounts the story of Romantic period writers Charles and Mary Lamb. Although the brother-sister duo later became famous for their summaries of Shakespeare's tales, they e ... Show More
1h 15m
Oct 12
836 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (with Robin Waterfield and John Sellars) | My Last Book with Daniel Olivas
What does it mean to live a good life? How can we accomplish it? For more than two thousand years, Western civilization has looked to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to help answer those questions. In this episode, Jacke talks to translator Robin Waterfield and scholar John Sellar ... Show More
56m 58s
Oct 8
835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My Last Book with Nicholas Boggs
What do Iranians - both home and abroad - think of race? Does "blackness" exist in Iran? And what can we learn about race and slavery in Iran from folklore, ethnography, literature, and films? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Amy Motlagh about her book Colorblind: Racial Th ... Show More
46m 4s
Apr 2021
195: The Epistemological Jack-in-the-Box
Mike tells the true story of a famous poet who wrote her best stuff while working as a waitress in a diner, many years ago. After that, another true story about the time Joan Rivers saved his career, followed by a rather remarkable catch-up with Paul Kelley, a true renaissance ma ... Show More
1h 11m
Jun 2021
The Woman in White: Third Epoch, Walter Hartright, Chapter 8
Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. It’s the Radiotopia Spring Fundraiser! Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. Donate today at https://on ... Show More
36m 20s
Nov 2021
Laurence Leamer - CAPOTE'S WOMEN
Laurence and I discuss Capote's Women, the illusion these women created for the world and how happiness was elusive for them, what surprised him the most while writing this book, the carefully chosen cover photo, his favorite of the books he has written, and much more. Laurence’s ... Show More
19m 28s
Jun 2021
The Woman in White: Third Epoch, Walter Hartright, Chapter 9
Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. It’s the Radiotopia Spring Fundraiser! Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. Donate today at https://on ... Show More
31m 42s
Jun 2021
The Woman in White: Third Epoch, Walter Hartright, Chapter 10, pt. 1
Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. It’s the Radiotopia Spring Fundraiser! Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. Donate today at https://on ... Show More
21m 38s
Jun 2021
The Woman in White: Third Epoch, Walter Hartright (cont.), Chapter 5
Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. It’s the Radiotopia Spring Fundraiser! Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. Donate today at https://on ... Show More
26m 55s
Jun 2021
The Woman in White: Third Epoch, Walter Hartright, Chapter 7
Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. It’s the Radiotopia Spring Fundraiser! Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. Donate today at https://on ... Show More
34m 52s
Jun 2021
Ep 480 - The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours is a late 20th-century homage to and interrogration of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. One woman writes it, one woman reads it, and one woman lives it. Now you can listen to us talk about it!Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. ... Show More
1h 3m