Baseball Ballads by Grantland Rice audiobook.
Genre: poetry
Baseball Ballads (originally published as Base-ball Ballads) gathers Grantland Rice's early twentieth-century verse into a spirited celebration of Americas game, written by a sportswriter who understood both the box score and the crowds heartbeat. Across quick, musical poems and longer narrative ba ... Show More
Feb 6
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome audiobook. Genre: comedy In Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K. Jerome reunites the good-natured trio first seen in Three Men in a Boat - the quick-witted narrator J., the unflappable George, and the magnificently chaotic Harris - as the ... Show More
6h 48m
Feb 6
The People of the Abyss by Jack London ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The People of the Abyss by Jack London audiobook. Genre: history In 1902, celebrated American writer Jack London crosses the Atlantic and disappears into the slums of Londons East End, determined to see what polite society refuses to notice. With little money, plain clothes, and ... Show More
6h 42m
Jul 2023
530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)
Jacke and Mike discuss the life and works of novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023), who recently died of esophageal cancer. The son of writer Kingsley Amis, Martin forged his own path, writing fifteen novels and several other works of essays and memoirs, with a devotion to style that ... Show More
1h 11m
Apr 2012
Robert K. Fitts, “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
There are three Americans in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. One is Horace Wilson, the professor of English who brought his students outside for a game in 1872, thus introducing baseball to Japan. Another is Wally Yonamine, the Hawaii-born Nisei who played professional baseba ... Show More
1 h
Jul 2020
Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times
<p>In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join<span> </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span> </span>to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberat ... Show More
45m 41s
Mar 2023
497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
By any measure, the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War has had an astonishing literary history, proving itself over two and a half millennia to be one of the world's most essential and enduring books. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and legacy of thi ... Show More
55m 23s
Jul 2023
529 Ten Thousand Things and the Asian American Experience (with Shin Yu Pai) | My Last Book with Ross Benjamin
Jacke talks to Shin Yu Pai, currently the Civic Poet of Seattle, about her career as an artist and her podcast Ten Thousand Things, which explores a collection of objects and artifacts that tell us something about Asian American life. PLUS Ross Benjamin (translator of The Diaries ... Show More
59m 25s
Aug 2023
539 Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome)
Jacke and Mike take a look at the stormy Fitzgerald marriage and F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth novel, Tender Is the Night, which many consider to be his masterpiece. (Yes, even better than Gatsby!)
Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. ... Show More
1h 6m