• 827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare (Mon, Aug 31, 2026)
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• 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! (Thu, Aug 27, 2026)
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• 825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley (Mon, Aug 24, 2026)
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• 824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The Claire Clairmont Story (with Emily Franklin) | My Last Book with Mathelinda Nabugodi (Mon, Aug 17, 2026)
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• 823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro) (Thu, Aug 13, 2026)
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• 822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | My Last Book with Douglas Clark (Mon, Aug 10, 2026)
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• 821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) | Wonderland Books! (with Amy Joyce and Gayle Weiswasser) (Mon, Aug 03, 2026)
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• 820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Sonja Tiernan) (Thu, Jul 30, 2026)
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• 819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of HOT Literati | My Last Book with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith (Mon, Jul 27, 2026)
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• 818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon (Mon, Jul 20, 2026)
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• 817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard (Thu, Jul 16, 2026)
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• 816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel Mendelsohn (Mon, Jul 13, 2026)
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• 815 Paddy Chayefsky (Mon, Jul 06, 2026)
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• 814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Ghose (Thu, Jul 02, 2026)
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• 813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli (Mon, Jun 29, 2026)
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• 812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence (Mon, Jun 22, 2026)
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• 811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey (Thu, Jun 18, 2026)
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• 810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Jun 15, 2026)
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• 809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Paling Funk) (Thu, Jun 11, 2026)
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• 808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible" (Mon, Jun 08, 2026)
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• 807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky and James H McGavran III (Thu, Jun 04, 2026)
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• 806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan (Mon, Jun 01, 2026)
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• 805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited] (Thu, May 28, 2026)
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• 804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea (Mon, May 25, 2026)
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• 803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Book with Mark Hussey (Thu, May 21, 2026)
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• 802 Colette (with Kathleen Antonioli) | My Last Book with Colombe Schneck (Mon, May 18, 2026)
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• 801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited) (Thu, May 14, 2026)
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• 800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker (Mon, May 11, 2026)
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• 799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert (Sun, May 10, 2026)
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• 799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited) (Thu, May 07, 2026)
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• 798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ramie Targoff (Wed, May 06, 2026)
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• 798 Emma Smith and Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (Revisited) (Mon, May 04, 2026)
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• 797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited) (Thu, Apr 30, 2026)
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• 796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited) (Mon, Apr 27, 2026)
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• 795 Will Tosh and Queer Shakespeare (Revisited) (Thu, Apr 23, 2026)
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• 794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with Gerri Kimber (Mon, Apr 20, 2026)
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• 793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with Peter Budrin) | My Last Book with Edward Watts (Thu, Apr 16, 2026)
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• 792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sperry) | My Last Book with Bruce Gordon (Mon, Apr 13, 2026)
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• 791 Emilia Lanier (a.k.a Aemilia Bassano Lanyer) Revisited (Thu, Apr 09, 2026)
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• 790 Madness and Myth (with Natasha Joukovsky) | My Last Book with Kimberly Lau (Mon, Apr 06, 2026)
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• 789 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Cass Sunstein (Thu, Apr 02, 2026)
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• 788 John Ruskin (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Francesca Wade (Mon, Mar 30, 2026)
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• 787 Why Poetry with Matthew Zapruder Encore (Thu, Mar 26, 2026)
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• 786 Cherokee Novelist and Poet John Rollin Ridge (with Travis Franks) (Mon, Mar 23, 2026)
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• 785 Literature in an Age of Anti-Immigration Sentiment (with Daniel Olivas) | My Last Book with Janet Todd (Thu, Mar 19, 2026)
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• 784 Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King (with William O. Stephens) (Mon, Mar 16, 2026)
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• 783 Southern Imagining (with Elleke Boehmer) | My Last Book with John McMurtrie (Thu, Mar 12, 2026)
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• 782 Consent in the Regency Novel (with Zoë McGee) (Mon, Mar 09, 2026)
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• 781 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings | My Last Book with Rhodri Lewis (Thu, Mar 05, 2026)
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• 780 Chekhov on Writing (with Bob Blaisdell) (Mon, Mar 02, 2026)
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• 779 Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises (with Mike Palindrome) RECLAIMED (Thu, Feb 26, 2026)
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• 778 A History of Aphorisms (with James Geary) | My Last Book with Paul Chrystal (Mon, Feb 23, 2026)
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• 777 T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" | "The Story of the Marquis de Cressy" by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (with Kate Deimling) (Thu, Feb 19, 2026)
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• 776 Mary Shelley in Bath (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with D.G. Hampton (Mon, Feb 16, 2026)
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• 775 Celebrity Authorship in the Nineteenth Century (with Sarah Allison) | My Last Book with Emily Van Duyne (Thu, Feb 12, 2026)
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• 774 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Leo Damrosch) (Mon, Feb 09, 2026)
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• 773 The Films of Rob Reiner (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Matt Abrahams (Thu, Feb 05, 2026)
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• 772 Thucydides and The History of the Peloponnesian War (with Polly Low and Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with James West (Mon, Feb 02, 2026)
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• 771 Shakespeare and the Generation of Genius - The Role of Performing Arts in education (with Robin Lithgow) - RECLAIMED (Thu, Jan 29, 2026)
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• 770 Shakespeare and Civility (with Indira Ghose) | Robert W. Service and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (Mon, Jan 26, 2026)
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• 769 The European Byron (with Jonathan Gross) | The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (#3 GBOAT) (Thu, Jan 22, 2026)
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• 768 Young James Baldwin (with Nicholas Boggs) | My Last Book with Bruce Robbins (Mon, Jan 19, 2026)
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• 767 A Black Woman in the Romantic Archive (with Mathelinda Nabugodi) | My Last Book with Richard Kopley (Thu, Jan 15, 2026)
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• 766 Gertrude Stein (with Francesca Wade) | Ruskin on the Only One Way to Get Art | My Last Book with Holly Baggett (Mon, Jan 12, 2026)
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• 765 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Jan 08, 2026)
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• 764 Two Thousand Years of Roman History (with Edward J. Watts) | My Last Book with Nathan Hensley (Mon, Jan 05, 2026)
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• 763 Emily's Desk Drawer (Thu, Jan 01, 2026)
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• 762 The History of the Sonnet (Mon, Dec 29, 2025)
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• 761 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#4 Greatest Book of All Time) (Wed, Dec 24, 2025)
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• 760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge (Mon, Dec 22, 2025)
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• 759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham (Thu, Dec 18, 2025)
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• 758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (#5 Greatest Book of All Time) (Mon, Dec 15, 2025)
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• 757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time) (Thu, Dec 11, 2025)
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• 756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | My Last Book with Jake Poller (Mon, Dec 08, 2025)
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• 755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with Iris Jamahl Dunkle (Thu, Dec 04, 2025)
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• 754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric White (Mon, Dec 01, 2025)
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• 753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | Giving Thanks | My Last Book with Eve Dunbar (Wed, Nov 26, 2025)
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• 752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book with Keith Cooper (Mon, Nov 24, 2025)
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• 751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book with Sharmila Sen (Thu, Nov 20, 2025)
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• 750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Carol Oates vs the Trillionaire | My Last Book with Ken Krimstein (Mon, Nov 17, 2025)
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• 749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark) | #7 Greatest Book of All Time (Thu, Nov 13, 2025)
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• 748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker Who Burgled Him | My Last Book with Emerson Expert Kenneth Sacks (Mon, Nov 10, 2025)
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• 747 Graphomaniac - The Story of a Horrible Russian Poet (with Ilya Vinitsky and James H. McGavran III | My Last Book with Stephanie Sandler | #8 Greatest Book of All Time (Thu, Nov 06, 2025)
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• 746 Wild Jane Austen (with Devoney Looser) | #9 Greatest Book of All Time (Mon, Nov 03, 2025)
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• 745 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (Halloween Fun-Size Edition) (Thu, Oct 30, 2025)
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• 744 Love, Sex, and Frankenstein (with Caroline Lea) | #10 Greatest Book of All Time | My Last Book with Geoffrey Turnovsky | A Letter from a Middle School Teacher and Mom (Mon, Oct 27, 2025)
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• 743 Fairy Tales (with Jack Zipes) [RECLAIMED] | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (#11 GBOAT) | Chaucer News (Thu, Oct 23, 2025)
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• 742 Edgar Allan Poe (with Richard Kopley) | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (#12 GBOAT) | My Last Book with Christopher Herbert (Mon, Oct 20, 2025)
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• 741 Gabriela Mistral (Thu, Oct 16, 2025)
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• 740 Mel Brooks and Other Eminent Jews (with David Denby) | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (#13 GBOAT) (Mon, Oct 13, 2025)
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• 739 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (#14 GBOAT) | Johannes Gutenberg (with Eric Marshall White) (Thu, Oct 09, 2025)
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• 738 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (#15 Greatest Book of All Time) (Mon, Oct 06, 2025)
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• 737 "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs (Thu, Oct 02, 2025)
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• 736 Jane Austen's Favorite Brother, Henry (with Christopher Herbert) | A Letter from the South of France | My Last Book with Nicholas Jenkins (Mon, Sep 29, 2025)
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• 735 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with Graham Watson (Mon, Sep 22, 2025)
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• 734 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (#16 GBOAT) | 1925 - A Literary Encyclopedia (with Tom Lutz) (Thu, Sep 18, 2025)
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• 733 Haruki Murakami (with Mike Palindrome | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (#17 GBOAT) | A Letter from Tehran (Mon, Sep 15, 2025)
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• 732 The Bible (#18 GBOAT) | The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (with Kate Loveman) | Health Advice (Thu, Sep 11, 2025)
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• 731 The Brothers Karamazov Reclaimed (#19 Greatest Book of All Time) (Mon, Sep 08, 2025)
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• 730 "To Autumn" by John Keats | The Invention of Charlotte Brontë (with Graham Watson) | My Last Book with Sara Charles (Thu, Sep 04, 2025)
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• 729 Milton the Revolutionary (with Orlando Reade) | My Last Book with Jodi Picoult | More Exciting News (Mon, Sep 01, 2025)
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• 728 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (#20 GBOAT) | Lorraine Hansberry - RECLAIMED (Mon, Aug 25, 2025)
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• 727 Earthly Paradise in Old French Verse (with Jacob Abell) | My Last Book with Victorian Literature Expert Allen MacDuffie | A Dueling Neapolitan Passionate for Poetry (Thu, Aug 21, 2025)
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• 726 England vs France - A Literary Battle Royale (with Mike Palindrome) - RECLAIMED (Mon, Aug 18, 2025)
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• 725 The Trial by Franz Kafka (#21 GBOAT) | Edith Wharton and Patrick O'Brian (with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith) | An Uplifting Story (Thu, Aug 14, 2025)
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• 724 The Stranger by Albert Camus (#22 Greatest Book of All Time) | Christopher Isherwood (with Jake Poller) | Postcard from a Listener in Yunnan (Mon, Aug 11, 2025)
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• 723 The Moral Rights of Authors (with Mira T Sundara Rajan) | My Last Book with Radha Vatsal (Thu, Aug 07, 2025)
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• 722 Kerouac's Road - A Conversation with Ebs Burnough, Director of a New Kerouac Documentary | My Last Book with Beat Generation Expert Steven Belletto (Mon, Aug 04, 2025)
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• 721 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (The #23 Greatest Book of All Time) (Thu, Jul 31, 2025)
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• 720 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time - #24 "The Odyssey" by Homer | The Conclusion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Jul 28, 2025)
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• 719 "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | 25 for 25 - #25 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Thu, Jul 24, 2025)
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• 718 Jim - The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (with Shelley Fisher Fishkin) | Mark Twain's Dreams (Mon, Jul 21, 2025)
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• 717 Einstein and Kafka (with Ken Krimstein) | Dr Johnson Helps a Friend (and Changes the Course of Literary History) | My Last Book with Fernando Pessoa Expert Bartholomew Ryan (Thu, Jul 17, 2025)
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• 716 Icelandic Folk Legends (with Dagrun Osk Jonsdottir) | John le Carre at the Bodleian (Mon, Jul 14, 2025)
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• 715 How Did George Eliot and the Victorians Respond to Climate Collapse? (with Nathan Hensley) | People at Museums Are Losing Their Brains! | My Last Book with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas (Thu, Jul 10, 2025)
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• 714 The Real Charles Dickens (with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas) | Dickens and the Theatre (Mon, Jul 07, 2025)
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• 713 The Odyssey (with Daniel Mendelsohn) | The History of Literature Podcast Tour! (Thu, Jul 03, 2025)
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• 712 Shakespeare's Greatest Love (with David Medina) | New Play About Shakespeare's Collaboration with Marlowe (Mon, Jun 30, 2025)
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• 711 How Does Literature Handle Atrocities? (with Bruce Robbins) | My Last Book with Hemingway Expert Alex Vernon | Who Will Come to Jacke and Emma's Party? (Thu, Jun 26, 2025)
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• 710 Weird and Wonderful Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome (with Paul Chrystal) | A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT | Two Listeners Follow Their Dream (And Create Something Amazing) (Mon, Jun 23, 2025)
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• 709 Black American Humor (with Damon Young) | The Greatest American Joke Ever Told? (Mon, Jun 16, 2025)
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• 708 Science Fact and Science Fiction (with Keith Cooper) | AI Discovers a Work of Ancient Philosophy and Dreams Up a Reading List (Thu, Jun 12, 2025)
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• 707 Emile Zola (with Robert Lethbridge) | Graham Greene's Only Ghost Story | My Last Book with Irina Mashinski (Mon, Jun 09, 2025)
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• 706 Living with Jane Austen (with Janet Todd) | A Listener Changes His Life | Bored Parents (Mon, Jun 02, 2025)
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• 705 Runaway Poets - How the Brownings Fell in Love (And Why It Matters) (Thu, May 29, 2025)
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• 704 Butterflies Regained (Mon, May 26, 2025)
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• 703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey (Mon, May 19, 2025)
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• 702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival! (Thu, May 15, 2025)
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• 701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick! (Mon, May 12, 2025)
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• 700 - Butterflies at Rest (Mon, May 05, 2025)
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• 699 Gatsby's Daisy (with Rachel Feder) | My Last Book with Francesca Peacock (Mon, Apr 28, 2025)
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• 698 Dante in Love (with Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio) [Ad-Free Archive Edition] (Thu, Apr 24, 2025)
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• 697 Race in European Fairy Tales (with Kimberly Lau) | My Last Book with Rolf Hellebust (Mon, Apr 21, 2025)
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• 696 John Ruskin (with Sara Atwood) | My Last Book with Collin Jennings (Thu, Apr 17, 2025)
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• 695 Ten Indian Classics (with Sharmila Sen) | My Last Book with Adam Smyth (Mon, Apr 14, 2025)
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• 694 Apocalyptic Literature (with Dorian Lynskey) | My Last Book with Charles Baxter (Thu, Apr 10, 2025)
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• 693 Understanding the Wonders of Nature (with Alan Lightman) | My Last Book with Alan Lightman (Mon, Apr 07, 2025)
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• 692 An Investigation in Chinatown (with Radha Vatsal) | The Five Books (with Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen) (Thu, Apr 03, 2025)
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• 691 The Making of Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson) | My Last Book with Cheryl Hopson (Mon, Mar 31, 2025)
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• 690 Coleridge and the Person from Porlock [Ad-Free] (Thu, Mar 27, 2025)
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• 689 Thomas Kyd (with Brian Vickers) | My Last Book with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder (Mon, Mar 24, 2025)
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• 688 Georges Simenon (Thu, Mar 20, 2025)
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• 687 Gatsby Turns 100 (with James West) (Mon, Mar 17, 2025)
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• 686 Russian Poetry After the Cold War (with Stephanie Sandler) (Thu, Mar 13, 2025)
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• 685 Charles Chesnutt (with Tess Chakkalakal) | My Last Book with John Goodby (Mon, Mar 10, 2025)
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• 684 The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Mar 06, 2025)
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• 683 Marianne Moore (with Cristanne Miller) (Mon, Mar 03, 2025)
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• 682 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) [Ad-Free Re-Release] (Thu, Feb 27, 2025)
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• 681 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 3 | My Last Book by Colm Tóibín (Mon, Feb 24, 2025)
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• 680 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 2 (Thu, Feb 20, 2025)
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• 679 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 1 (Mon, Feb 17, 2025)
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• 678 Fernando Pessoa (with Bartholomew Ryan) | My Last Book with Robin Waterfield (Thu, Feb 13, 2025)
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• 677 Dylan Thomas (with John Goodby) | Emily Brontë and the Search for Hope (Mon, Feb 10, 2025)
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• 676 "Mrs Spring Fragrance" by Sui Sin Far (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Feb 06, 2025)
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• 675 Zora Neale Hurston (with Cheryl Hopson) | Jack Kerouac's Newly Discovered Writings (Mon, Feb 03, 2025)
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• 674 Nabokov vs Freud (with Joshua Ferris) [Ad-Free Re-Release] (Thu, Jan 30, 2025)
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• 673 Edna Ferber (with Julie Gilbert) | My Last Book with Jessica Kirzane (Mon, Jan 27, 2025)
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• 672 The Little Review (with Holly A. Baggett) | My Last Book with Phil Jones (Thu, Jan 23, 2025)
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• 671 Shakespeare's Tragic Art (with Rhodri Lewis) | My Last Book with Joel Warner (Mon, Jan 20, 2025)
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• 670 The Parable (Thu, Jan 16, 2025)
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• 669 Obsessed with Melville (with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder) | My Last Book with Alexander Poots (Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
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• 668 Book and Dagger - The Scholars and Librarians Who Became Spies and Fought the Nazis (with Elyse Graham) | Jane Austen Turns 250 (Thu, Jan 09, 2025)
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• 667 Sui Sin Far (with Victoria Namkung) | My Last Book with Samantha Rose Hill (Mon, Jan 06, 2025)
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• 666 "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Lev Grossman (Thu, Jan 02, 2025)
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• 665 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian) [Ad-Free Encore Edition] (Mon, Dec 30, 2024)
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• 664 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2 [Ad-Free Encore Version] (Tue, Dec 24, 2024)
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• 663 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 1 [Ad-Free Encore Edition] (Mon, 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 (Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
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• 661 James Baldwin (with Colm Tóibín) (Mon, Dec 16, 2024)
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• 660 "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | My Last Book with Amelia Possanza (Thu, Dec 12, 2024)
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• 659 The Legend of King Arthur (with Lev Grossman) (Mon, Dec 09, 2024)
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• 658 "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay | Literary Journeys (with John McMurtrie) (Thu, Dec 05, 2024)
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• 657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele Pedulla (Mon, 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] (Fri, Nov 29, 2024)
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• 655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with Mary Flannery (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
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• 654 Loving (and Reclaiming) Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne) (Mon, Nov 25, 2024)
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• 653 J.D. Salinger (Thu, Nov 21, 2024)
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• 652 Writing a Comic Novel (with Charles Baxter) | My Last Book with Bill Eville (Mon, 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 (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
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• 650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi) (Mon, 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 (Thu, Nov 07, 2024)
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• 648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book with Sandra Spanier (Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
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• 647 The Brontes [HOL Encore] (Thu, Oct 31, 2024)
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• 646 Discovering a Long Lost Slave Narrative (with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder) (Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
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• 645 Richard Wright (Thu, Oct 24, 2024)
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• 644 Jack Kerouac (with Steven Belletto) (Mon, Oct 21, 2024)
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• 643 Aesop and His Fables (with Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with Boel Westin (Thu, Oct 17, 2024)
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• 642 Theater and Democracy (with James Shapiro) (Mon, 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 (Thu, Oct 10, 2024)
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• 640 Chaucer the Merry Bard (with Mary Flannery) (Mon, Oct 07, 2024)
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• 639 Immersed in Print (with Geoffrey Turnovsky) | My Last Book with Liz Rosenberg (Thu, Oct 03, 2024)
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• 638 Thomas Mann (Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
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• 637 From the Archives - Heart of Darkness (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Fred Waitzkin (Thu, Sep 26, 2024)
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• 636 Emily Dickinson's Letters (with Cristanne Miller) (Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
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• 635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman (Thu, Sep 19, 2024)
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• 634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown (Mon, Sep 16, 2024)
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• 633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer (Thu, Sep 12, 2024)
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• 632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon) (Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
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• 631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood (Thu, Sep 05, 2024)
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• 630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico (Mon, Sep 02, 2024)
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• 629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer) (Mon, 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 (Tue, Aug 20, 2024)
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• 627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino) (Mon, Aug 12, 2024)
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• 626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams (Thu, Aug 08, 2024)
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• 625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg) (Mon, Aug 05, 2024)
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• 624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro (Mon, Jul 29, 2024)
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• 623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics (Thu, Jul 25, 2024)
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• 622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza) (Mon, Jul 22, 2024)
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• 621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
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• 620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees (Thu, Jul 11, 2024)
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• 619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding (Mon, 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 (Mon, 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 (Thu, Jun 27, 2024)
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• 616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai (Mon, Jun 24, 2024)
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• 615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed (Mon, Jun 17, 2024)
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• 614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke (Thu, Jun 13, 2024)
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• 613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel (Mon, Jun 10, 2024)
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• 612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus (Mon, Jun 03, 2024)
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• 611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter (Thu, May 30, 2024)
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• 610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James MacManus (Mon, May 27, 2024)
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• 609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Dabashi (Mon, May 20, 2024)
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• 608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Gareth Russell (Thu, May 16, 2024)
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• 607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My Last Book with Edward Chamberlin (Mon, May 13, 2024)
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• 606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe) (Mon, May 06, 2024)
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• 605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin) (Thu, May 02, 2024)
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• 604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol (Mon, Apr 29, 2024)
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• 603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus) (Mon, 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 (Thu, Apr 18, 2024)
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• 601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey) (Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
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• 600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes) (Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
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• 599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown (Thu, 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 (Mon, Apr 01, 2024)
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• 597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas Dames (Mon, 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 (Mon, Mar 18, 2024)
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• 595 Machiavelli (with Gabriele Pedulla) | My Last Book with Sarah Ruden (Mon, Mar 11, 2024)
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• 594 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Mon, 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 (Mon, Feb 26, 2024)
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• 592 Virgil (with Sarah Ruden) | Darwin and Gaskell | My Last Book with Tom Holland (Mon, Feb 19, 2024)
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• 591 William Wordsworth (Mon, Feb 12, 2024)
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• 590 Blotted Lines (with Adhaar Noor Desai) | My Last Book with Lara Vetter (Thu, Feb 08, 2024)
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• 589 Dante and Friendship (with Elizabeth Coggeshall) | My Last Book with Dr Tara Bynum (Mon, Feb 05, 2024)
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• 588 China in African Literature (with Duncan Yoon) | My Last Book with Katherine Howe (Thu, Feb 01, 2024)
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• 587 Byron's Letters (with Andrew Stauffer) | My Last Book with Jonathan van Belle (Mon, Jan 29, 2024)
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• 586 The Czech Manuscripts Hoax (with David Cooper) | My Last Book with Jesse Kavadlo (Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
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• 585 Plots and the Modern Novelist (with Pardis Dabashi) | My Last Book with Anne Enright (Mon, Jan 22, 2024)
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• 584 A Conversation with James MacManus | My Last Book with Peter K Andersson (Thu, Jan 18, 2024)
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• 583 Margaret Cavendish (with Francesca Peacock) | My Last Book with Patrick Whitmarsh (Mon, Jan 15, 2024)
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• 582 Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Myron Tuman (Thu, Jan 11, 2024)
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• 581 The Venerable Bede (with Michelle P. Brown) | My Last Book with Adrian Edwards (Mon, Jan 08, 2024)
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• 580 Thoreau at Work (with Jonathan van Belle) | My Last Book with Andrew Pettegree (Thu, Jan 04, 2024)
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• 579 New Year New You! Conversations with Bethanne Patrick and Aislyn Greene (Mon, Jan 01, 2024)
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• 578 Chapters (with Nicholas Dames) | My Last Book (with Hamid Dabashi) (Sun, Dec 31, 2023)
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• Life and Art from FT Weekend: Books Books Books! (Wed, 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) (Sun, 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) (Thu, Dec 21, 2023)
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• 575 A History of the Fool (with Peter Andersson) | My Last Book with Ed Simon (Mon, Dec 18, 2023)
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• 574 The Book at War (with Andrew Pettegree) | My Last Book with Robin Lane Fox (Thu, 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 (Mon, Dec 11, 2023)
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• 572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Dec 07, 2023)
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• 571 Shakespeare's White Others (with David Sterling Brown) | My Last Book with Shilpi Suneja (Mon, Dec 04, 2023)
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• 570 Pirates! (with Katharine Howe) (Thu, 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 (Mon, Nov 27, 2023)
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• 568 The Tempest (with Laurie Frankel) (Wed, Nov 22, 2023)
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• 567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zipes (Mon, Nov 20, 2023)
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• 566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards) (Thu, Nov 16, 2023)
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• 565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with Honor Cargill-Martin (Mon, Nov 13, 2023)
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• 564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter) (Thu, Nov 09, 2023)
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• 563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson) (Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
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• 562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman) (Thu, Nov 02, 2023)
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• 561 Homer and His Iliad (with Robin Lane Fox) | A Quick Hit of Witches (with Katherine Howe) (Mon, Oct 30, 2023)
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• 560 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (Thu, Oct 26, 2023)
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• 559 Washington Irving | My Last Book with Joe Skinner (Mon, Oct 23, 2023)(01:00 -0000, )
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• 558 Black Nature Writing (with Erin Sharkey) (Thu, Oct 19, 2023)
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• 557 Somerset Maugham (with Tan Twan Eng) (Mon, 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) (Thu, Oct 12, 2023)
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• 555 What Was Shakespeare Really Like? (with Sir Stanley Wells) | My Last Book with David Ellis (Mon, Oct 09, 2023)
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• 554 John Ashbery (with Jess Cotton) | My Last Book with David van den Berg (Thu, Oct 05, 2023)
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• 553 A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | My Last Book with Max Saunders (Mon, Oct 02, 2023)
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• 552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja) (Thu, 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 (Mon, Sep 25, 2023)
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• 550 F Scott Fitzgerald (with Arthur Krystal) | My Last Book with Jed Rasula (Thu, Sep 21, 2023)
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• 549 Forgotten Women of Literature 7 - Ursula Parrott (with Marsha Gordon) (Mon, Sep 18, 2023)
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• 548 Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro) (Thu, Sep 14, 2023)
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• 547 Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (with William Egginton) (Mon, Sep 11, 2023)
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• 546 The Cambridge Companion to Comics (with Maaheen Ahmed) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Winkler (Thu, Sep 07, 2023)
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• 545 Milton's Paradise Lost - A Personal Journey (with Ed Simon) (Mon, Sep 04, 2023)
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• 544 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Aug 31, 2023)
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• 543 A Philosopher's Guide to Rome (with Scott Samuelson) (Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
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• 542 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James (Pt 2) (Thu, Aug 24, 2023)
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• 541 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James (Mon, Aug 21, 2023)
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• 540 A Black Queen in Exile (with Vanessa Riley) | My Last Book with Jolene Hubbs (Thu, Aug 17, 2023)
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• 539 Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Aug 14, 2023)
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• 538 Writing Our Extinction (with Patrick Whitmarsh) | My Last Book with Christina Jarvis (Thu, Aug 10, 2023)
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• 537 The Persian Prince (with Hamid Dabashi) (Mon, Aug 07, 2023)
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• 536 Literary New Orleans (with TR Johnson) | My Last Book with Len Webb and Vincent Williams (Thu, Aug 03, 2023)
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• 535 The Australian Novelist Who Writes History Through Women's Eyes (with Pip Williams) (Mon, Jul 31, 2023)
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• 534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Thu, Jul 27, 2023)
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• 533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead (Mon, Jul 24, 2023)
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• 532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Thu, Jul 20, 2023)
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• 530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, 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 (Mon, 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 (Thu, Jul 06, 2023)
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• 527 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (with Elizabeth Winkler) | My Last Book with Megan Marshall (Mon, Jul 03, 2023)
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• 526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt (Thu, Jun 29, 2023)
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• 525 Don DeLillo (with Jesse Kavadlo) (Mon, Jun 26, 2023)
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• 524 Growing Old with The Graduate - Mike Nichols, Roger Ebert, Charles Webb, and Me (Thu, 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) (Mon, Jun 19, 2023)
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• 522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino (Thu, Jun 15, 2023)
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• 521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler (Mon, Jun 12, 2023)
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• 520 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (Thu, Jun 08, 2023)
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• 519 Shakespeare's First Folio (with Emma Smith) | My Last Book with Luke Parker (Mon, 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 (Thu, Jun 01, 2023)
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• 517 The Marquis de Sade (Mon, May 29, 2023)
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• 516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor) (Thu, 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 (Mon, May 22, 2023)
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• 514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer (Thu, May 18, 2023)
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• 513 The Writers of Northern Ireland (with Alexander Poots) | My Last Book with Laura Lee (Mon, May 15, 2023)
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• 512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with Scott Carter (Thu, 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 (Mon, May 08, 2023)
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• 510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2) (Thu, May 04, 2023)
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• 509 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 1) (Mon, May 01, 2023)
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• 508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris (Thu, Apr 27, 2023)
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• 507 The Class of 1989 - A Special Year in Black Cinema (with Len Webb and Vincent Williams) (Mon, Apr 24, 2023)
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• 506 Black Shakespeare (with Ian Smith) | My Last Book with David Castillo and William Egginton (Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
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• 505 Ford Madox Ford (with Max Saunders) | My Last Book with Bethanne Patrick (Mon, Apr 17, 2023)
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• 504 Persuasion (Book Two) (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Juliette Bretan (Thu, Apr 13, 2023)
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• 503 Persuasion (Book One) (with Gina Buonaguro) (Thu, Apr 13, 2023)
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• 502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski (Mon, Apr 10, 2023)
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• 501 The Naked World (with Irina Mashinski) (Thu, Apr 06, 2023)
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• 500 Episode 500! Meg White, Listener Emails, Johnson and Boswell, and More! (with Margot Livesey) (Mon, Apr 03, 2023)
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• 499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee) (Thu, Mar 30, 2023)
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• 498 A New Novel by a Legendary Independent Filmmaker (with John Sayles) (Mon, Mar 27, 2023)
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• 497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Thu, Mar 23, 2023)
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• 496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner) (Mon, Mar 20, 2023)
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• 495 The Creative Spark (with Joe Skinner) (Thu, 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) (Mon, Mar 13, 2023)
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• 493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate (Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
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• 492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker) (Mon, Mar 06, 2023)
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• 491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall) (Thu, Mar 02, 2023)
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• Introducing YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER (Wed, Mar 01, 2023)
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• 490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes) (Mon, Feb 27, 2023)
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• 489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole) (Thu, Feb 23, 2023)
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• 488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson) (Mon, Feb 20, 2023)
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• 487 Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche (with John Higgs) (Thu, Feb 16, 2023)
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• 486 The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (with Melissa J. Homestead) (Mon, Feb 13, 2023)
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• 485 Reading Pleasures - Everyday Black Living in Early America (with Dr Tara Bynum) (Thu, Feb 09, 2023)
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• 484 Reading John Milton (with Stephen Dobranski) (Mon, Feb 06, 2023)
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• 483 Margaret Fuller (with Megan Marshall) (Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
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• 482 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part Two) (Mon, Jan 30, 2023)
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• 481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One) (Thu, Jan 26, 2023)
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• 480 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (with Ritchie Robertson) (Mon, Jan 23, 2023)
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• 479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb) (Thu, Jan 19, 2023)
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• 478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin) (Mon, Jan 16, 2023)
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• 477 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 2 - "The Vice of Reading") (Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
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• 476 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 1 - "Xingu") (Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
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• 475 Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (with Emma Smith) (Mon, Jan 09, 2023)
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• 474 Herman Melville (Thu, Jan 05, 2023)
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• 473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino) (Mon, Jan 02, 2023)
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• 472 The Art of Not Knowing (Thu, Dec 29, 2022)
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• 471 Angels of War (with Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner (Mon, Dec 26, 2022)
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• 470 Two Christmas Days - A Holiday Story by Ida B. Wells (Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
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• 469 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (with Gina Buonaguro) (Mon, Dec 19, 2022)
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• 468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell) (Thu, Dec 15, 2022)
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• 467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula) (Mon, Dec 12, 2022)
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• 466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis) (Thu, Dec 08, 2022)
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• 465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober) (Mon, Dec 05, 2022)
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• 464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years (Thu, Dec 01, 2022)
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• 463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson) (Mon, Nov 28, 2022)
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• 462 My Last Book (with Laurie Frankel) (Wed, Nov 23, 2022)
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• 461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall) (Mon, Nov 21, 2022)
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• 460 Rabindranath Tagore (Thu, Nov 17, 2022)
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• 459 Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature (with Anna Beer) (Mon, Nov 14, 2022)
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• 458 Alexander Pushkin (with Robert Chandler) (Thu, 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) (Mon, Nov 07, 2022)
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• 456 Maya Angelou (Thu, Nov 03, 2022)
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• 455 Gustave Flaubert (Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
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• 454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story (Thu, Oct 27, 2022)(04:01:00 -0000, )
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• 453 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Dr Rae Wynn-Grant) (Mon, Oct 24, 2022)
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• 452 Charles and Mary Lamb | A Letter To My Transgender Daughter (with Carolyn Hays) (Thu, Oct 20, 2022)
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• 451 Mary Shelley (Mon, Oct 17, 2022)
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• 450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (Thu, Oct 13, 2022)
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• 449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler) (Mon, Oct 10, 2022)
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• 448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett) (Thu, Oct 06, 2022)
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• 447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar) (Mon, Oct 03, 2022)
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• 446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years (Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
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• 445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton) (Mon, Sep 26, 2022)
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• 444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan) (Thu, Sep 22, 2022)
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• 443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick) (Mon, Sep 19, 2022)
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• 442 Prince, Emperor, Sage - Bābur and the Bāburnāma (with Anuradha) (Thu, Sep 15, 2022)
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• 441 When Novels Were Novel (with Jason Feifer) (Mon, Sep 12, 2022)
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• 440 Emma's Pick - "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin (Thu, Sep 08, 2022)
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• 439 Poets' Guide to Economics (with John Ramsden) (Mon, Sep 05, 2022)
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• 438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Sep 01, 2022)
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• 437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson (Mon, Aug 29, 2022)
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• The History of Literature Presents: Missing Pages (Thu, Aug 25, 2022)
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• 436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani) (Mon, Aug 22, 2022)
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• 435 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 2 - The Virginia Woolf Story That Changed Everything (Thu, Aug 18, 2022)
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• 434 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 1 - Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story (Mon, Aug 15, 2022)
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• 433 Emma's Pick - "To Build a Fire" by Jack London (Thu, Aug 11, 2022)
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• 432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino) (Mon, Aug 08, 2022)
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• 431 Langston Hughes (Thu, Aug 04, 2022)
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• 430 In Shakespeare's Shadow (with Michael Blanding) (Mon, Aug 01, 2022)
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• 429 Books I Have Loved (with Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, and Jim Shepard) (Thu, Jul 28, 2022)
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• 428 Edward Gibbon (with Zachary Karabell) (Mon, Jul 25, 2022)
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• 427 Bashō's Best - Haiku and the Essence of Life (Thu, Jul 21, 2022)
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• 426 Matsuo Bashō - Haiku's Greatest Master (Mon, Jul 18, 2022)
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• 425 Tom Stoppard (with Scott Carter) (Thu, Jul 14, 2022)( -0000 04:01:00, )
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• 424 Karel Čapek (with Ian Coss) (Mon, Jul 11, 2022)
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• 423 Roger Ebert (Thu, Jul 07, 2022)
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• 422 Wallace Stegner (with Melodie Edwards) (Mon, 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) (Thu, Jun 30, 2022)
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• 420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende) (Mon, Jun 27, 2022)
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• 419 Christina Rossetti (Thu, Jun 23, 2022)
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• 418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (Mon, Jun 20, 2022)
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• 417 What Happened on Roanoke Island? (with Kimberly Brock) (Thu, Jun 16, 2022)
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• 416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs) (Mon, Jun 13, 2022)
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• 415 "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti (Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
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• 414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs) (Mon, Jun 06, 2022)
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• 413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself" (Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
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• 412 HOL Goes to War (with Elizabeth Samet, Matt Gallagher, and Tom Roston) (Mon, May 30, 2022)
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• 411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope (Thu, May 26, 2022)
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• 410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans) (Mon, May 23, 2022)
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• 409 "Fear and Trembling" (The Story of Abraham and Isaac) by Soren Kierkegaard (Thu, May 19, 2022)
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• 408 Dylan Thomas (with Scott Carter) (Mon, May 16, 2022)
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• 407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (Thu, May 12, 2022)
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• 406 A World in Turmoil - 1967-1971 (with Beverly Gologorsky) (Mon, May 09, 2022)
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• 405 Kierkegaard Falls in Love (Thu, May 05, 2022)
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• 404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley) (Mon, May 02, 2022)
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• 403 The Wonderful World of Mysteries (A Best-of-HOL Episode) (Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
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• Introducing "The History of Literature" (Tue, Apr 26, 2022)
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• 402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane (Mon, 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 (Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
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• 400 Anniversary Special! (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Apr 18, 2022)
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• 399 Stephen Crane (with Linda H. Davis) (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
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• 398 Fernando Pessoa (Mon, 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) (Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
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• 396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark) (Mon, Apr 04, 2022)
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• 395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode) (Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
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• 394 Freud and Fiction | PLUS An Assia Wevill Preview (Mon, Mar 28, 2022)
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• 393 Writers in Odessa, Ukraine's "Black Sea Pearl" | PLUS Margot Reads Boswell (Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
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• 392 Sigmund Freud (Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
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• 391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome) (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
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• 390 Victor Hugo (Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
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• 389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson) (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
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• 388 Sense and Sensibility (Mon, Mar 07, 2022)
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• 387 Loving Virginia Woolf | Fashion in Literature (with Lauren S. Cardon) (Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
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• 386 Gogol's Ukrainian Nights | HOL Presents "Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript" (A Book Dreams Podcast) (Mon, Feb 28, 2022)
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• 385 The Gettysburg Address (Thu, 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 (Mon, 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) (Thu, 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 (Mon, Feb 14, 2022)
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• 381 C Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan) (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
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• 380 Ian Fleming | PLUS The Black James Bond (Mon, Feb 07, 2022)
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• 379 Gwendolyn Brooks | Bharati Preview 2 (with Mira Sundara Rajan) (Thu, 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) (Mon, Jan 31, 2022)
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• 377 The Brothers Grimm | Jeremy Tiang Sneak Preview (Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
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• 376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska) (Mon, Jan 24, 2022)
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• 375 The Power of Literature | PLUS Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (with Margot Livesey) (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
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• 374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries) (Mon, Jan 17, 2022)
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• 373 Roald Dahl (Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
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• 372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce) (Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
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• 371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce) (Mon, 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) (Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
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• 369 Rilke and the Search for God (Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
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• 368 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) (Mon, Dec 20, 2021)
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• 367 The Beatles and the Power of Narrative | Tolstoy on Twitter (Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
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• 366 Evelyn Waugh (with Phil Klay) (Mon, 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 (Thu, Dec 09, 2021)
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• 364 Bob Dylan, the Blues, and Songs with Literary Power (with Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez) (Mon, Dec 06, 2021)
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• 363 William Butler Yeats (Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
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• 362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston) (Mon, Nov 29, 2021)
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• 361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin) (Thu, Nov 25, 2021)
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• 360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel) | Tolstoy's Gospel (with Scott Carter) (Mon, 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" (Thu, 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) (Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
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• 357 Little Women Remixed (with Bethany C. Morrow) | Thomas Jefferson's Gospel (with Scott Carter) (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
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• 356 Louisa May Alcott (Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
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• 355 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
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• 354 Treasure Island Remixed (with C.B. Lee) (Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
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• 353 Oscar Wilde in Prison (with Scott Carter) (Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
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• 352 Charles Baudelaire (with Aaron Poochigian) (Mon, Oct 25, 2021)
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• 351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva) (Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
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• 350 Mystery! (with Jonah Lehrer) (Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
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• 349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume) (Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
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• 348 Philip Roth (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
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• 347 The Prisoner and His Prize - The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley) (Mon, Sep 20, 2021)
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• 346 For Whom the Beast Leaps (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 3) (Mon, Sep 13, 2021)
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• 345 Great Literary Centuries (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Sep 06, 2021)
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• 344 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Beast (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 2) (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
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• 343 The Feast in the Jungle (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 1) (Mon, Aug 23, 2021)
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• 342 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (with Laura Marsh) (Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
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• 341 Constance and Henry - The Story of "Miss Grief" (Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
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• 340 Forgotten Women of Literature 5 - Constance Fenimore Woolson (Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
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• 339 Jack Kerouac (Mon, Jul 26, 2021)
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• 338 Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly) (Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
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• 337 Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus (with A. Natasha Joukovsky) (Mon, Jul 12, 2021)
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• 336 Painting the Paintings in Literature (with Charlie Stein) (Mon, Jul 05, 2021)
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• 335 Machado de Assis (with Cláudia Laitano) (Mon, Jun 28, 2021)
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• 334 Katherine Mansfield (Mon, Jun 21, 2021)
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• 333 Tristram Shandy (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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• 332 Hamlet (with Laurie Frankel) (Mon, Jun 14, 2021)
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• 331 "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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• 330 Middlemarch (with Yang Huang) (Mon, Jun 07, 2021)
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• 329 Miguel de Cervantes (Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
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• 328 Aristophanes (with Aaron Poochigian) (Mon, May 31, 2021)
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• 327 Natalia Ginzburg (Mon, May 24, 2021)
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• HoL Presents The REAL Little Women (from the Book Dreams Podcast) (Thu, May 20, 2021)
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• 326 Rimbaud (Mon, May 17, 2021)
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• 325 Philip Larkin (Mon, May 10, 2021)
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• HoL Presents The Graduate (from the Overdue Podcast) (Thu, May 06, 2021)
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• 324 Ralph Ellison | Blocked! (Top 10 Cases of Writer's Block) (Mon, May 03, 2021)
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• 323 Salman Rushdie (Mon, Apr 26, 2021)
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• 322 Djuna Barnes (Mon, Apr 19, 2021)
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• 321 Thucydides (Mon, Apr 12, 2021)
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• 320 Henry James (Mon, Apr 05, 2021)
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• 319 Frances (Fanny) Burney (Mon, Mar 29, 2021)
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• 318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley) (Mon, Mar 22, 2021)
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• 317 My Antonia by Willa Cather (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
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• 316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino) (Mon, Mar 15, 2021)
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• 314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel) (Mon, Mar 08, 2021)
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• 312 Yukio Mishima (Mon, Mar 01, 2021)
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• 311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read (Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
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• 309 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (a Storybound project) (Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
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• 308 New Westerns (with Anna North) (Mon, Feb 15, 2021)
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• 306 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian) (Mon, Feb 08, 2021)
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• 305 The Remains of the Day (Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
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• 304 Kazuo Ishiguro (with Chigozie Obioma) (Mon, Feb 01, 2021)
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• 303 The Search for Darcy - Jane Austen, Tom Lefroy, and the World of Pride and Prejudice (Thu, Jan 28, 2021)
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• 302 Jane in Love - The Story of Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy (Mon, Jan 25, 2021)
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• 301 Reading Proust with Strangers (Thu, Jan 21, 2021)
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• 300 Frederick Douglass (Mon, Jan 18, 2021)
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• 299 The Cherry Orchard (Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
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• 298 Amyra León! (Mon, Jan 11, 2021)
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• 297 The Scarlet Letter (Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
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• 296 Nathaniel Hawthorne (Mon, Jan 04, 2021)
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• 295 The Past, The Future, and Chekhov (Wed, Dec 30, 2020)
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• 292 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov) (Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
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• 291 The Book of Firsts (with Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal) (Mon, Dec 14, 2020)
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• 290 The Seagull (Chekhov) (Thu, Dec 10, 2020)
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• 289 Swann's Way (Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
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• 288 The Triumph of Broadway (with Michael Riedel) (Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
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• 287 The Heptameron | Marguerite de Navarre (Mon, Nov 30, 2020)
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• 286 JRR Tolkien (Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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• 285 Herodotus (Mon, Nov 23, 2020)
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• 284 Westerns (with Anna North) (Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
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• 283 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Top 10 Literary Modes of Transportation (Mon, Nov 16, 2020)
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• 282 Science Fiction (Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
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• 281 The Great Gatsby (Mon, Nov 09, 2020)
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• 280 Romance Novels (Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
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• 279 Jean Rhys (Mon, Nov 02, 2020)
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• 278 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee) (Thu, Oct 29, 2020)( -0000 04:02:00, )
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• 277 George Orwell (Mon, Oct 26, 2020)
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• 276 Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Detective Story | "The Purloined Letter" (Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
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• 275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford) (Mon, Oct 19, 2020)
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• 274 Baudelaire and the Flowers of Evil (Thu, 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) (Mon, Oct 12, 2020)
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• 272 "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee) (Thu, Oct 08, )( 04:01:00 2020, -0000)
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• 271 "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Solo Special!) (Mon, Oct 05, 2020)
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• 270 Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat" (Thu, Oct 01, 2020)
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• 268 Forgotten Women of Literature 4 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Thu, Sep 24, 2020)
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• 267 Great Scot! The 6 Best Scottish Writers (with Margot Livesey) (Mon, Sep 21, 2020)
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• 265 Forgotten Women of Literature 3 | Aemelia Lanyer (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
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• 264 HoL Presents Tommy Orange's "Copperopolis" (a Storybound Project) | PLUS a Visit from Jacke Lonelyhearts (Mon, Sep 14, 2020)
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• 263 Forgotten Women of Literature 2 - Cai Yan (Wenji) (Thu, Sep 10, 2020)
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• 262 Ovid (Mon, Sep 07, 2020)
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• 261 Forgotten Women of Literature - Enheduanna (with Charles Halton) (Thu, Sep 03, 2020)
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• 260 HoL Presents Diksha Basu from the Storybound Project (Mon, 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") (Thu, Aug 27, 2020)
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• Hatchet Jobs! When Reviewers Attack (Mon, Aug 24, 2020)
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• Shakespeare's Best | Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") (Thu, Aug 20, 2020)
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• TS Eliot | The Waste Land (Mon, Aug 17, 2020)
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• Anna Karenina (Mon, Aug 10, 2020)
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• The Brontes' Secret Scandal (with Finola Austin) (Mon, Aug 03, 2020)
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• Beatrix Potter (Thu, Jul 30, 2020)
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• Stendhal (Mon, Jul 20, 2020)
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• The History of Literature Presents: Storybound (with Mitchell S. Jackson) (Thu, Jul 16, 2020)
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• Raymond Carver (with Tom Perrotta) (Mon, Jul 13, 2020)
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• Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron (Thu, Jul 09, 2020)
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• Alexandre Dumas (Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
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• Keeping Secrets! Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, and the CIA (with Lara Prescott) (Mon, Jun 29, 2020)
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• William Faulkner | Dry September (Thu, Jun 25, 2020)
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• Literary Battle Royal 2 - The Cold War (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.) (Mon, Jun 22, 2020)
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• More Thoreau | Experiencing Nature (with Nina Shengold) (Thu, Jun 18, 2020)
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• The Seven Deadly Sins (Thu, Jun 11, 2020)
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• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (with Amanda Stern) (Mon, Jun 08, 2020)
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• Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 3 (Fri, Jun 05, 2020)
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• Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 2 (Wed, Jun 03, 2020)
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• Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman (Mon, Jun 01, 2020)
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• C.S. Lewis (Thu, May 28, 2020)
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• The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Mon, May 25, 2020)
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• William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily (Mon, May 18, 2020)
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• Baldwin v Faulkner (Thu, May 14, 2020)
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• Jorge Luis Borges (Mon, May 04, 2020)
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• Albert Camus (Mon, Apr 27, 2020)
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• The Best of the Bard: Top 10 Greatest Lines in Shakespeare (Mon, Apr 20, 2020)
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• A Lost Spring (with Professor Mitchell Nathanson) (Mon, Apr 13, 2020)
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• The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
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• Kate Chopin (Thu, Mar 26, 2020)
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• Kipling, Kingsley, and Conan Doyle - When Writers Go to War (with Sarah LeFanu) (Mon, Mar 23, 2020)
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• Special Quarantine Edition - Gusev by Anton Chekhov (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
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• Edith Wharton (Mon, Mar 09, 2020)
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• More John Keats (Mon, Mar 02, 2020)
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• Conflict Literature (with Matt Gallagher) (Mon, Feb 24, 2020)
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• John Keats (Mon, Feb 17, 2020)
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• Agatha Christie (with Gillian Gill) (Mon, Feb 10, 2020)
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• Karl Ove Knausgaard (Mon, Feb 03, 2020)
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• Saul Bellow (Mon, Jan 27, 2020)
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• Living Poetry (with Bob Holman) (Mon, Jan 20, 2020)
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• William Blake (Mon, Jan 13, 2020)
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• Chekhov (Mon, Jan 06, 2020)
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• Virginia Woolf (with Gillian Gill) (Thu, Dec 26, 2019)
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• The Magic Mountain (Mon, Dec 16, 2019)
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• Jonathan Swift (Mon, Dec 09, 2019)
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• Sylvia Plath (Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
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• Margaret Atwood (Tue, , )( Nov 26, 2019)
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• Thomas Hardy (Mon, Nov 11, 2019)
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• George Saunders (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Nov 04, 2019)
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• Macbeth (Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
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• Alfred Hitchcock (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Oct 21, 2019)
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• Chinua Achebe (Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
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• Blood and Sympathy in the 19th Century (with Professor Ann Kibbie) (Thu, Oct 03, 2019)
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• Weeping for Gogol (Thu, Sep 26, 2019)
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• Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes (with Yuval Taylor) (Mon, Sep 16, 2019)
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• The Brontes (Mon, Sep 09, 2019)
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• Robert Louis Stevenson (Sat, Aug 31, 2019)
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• Marcel Proust (Mon, Jul 22, 2019)
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• George Eliot (Mon, Apr 08, 2019)
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• Samuel Beckett (Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
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• 182 Darkness and Light (with Jessica Harper) (Wed, Mar 06, 2019)
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• 181 David Foster Wallace (with Mike Palindrome) (Wed, Feb 27, 2019)
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• 180 Donald Barthelme (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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• 179 The Oscars by Decade (with Brian Price) (Wed, Feb 13, 2019)
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• 177 Sherwood Anderson (with Alyson Hagy) (Wed, Jan 30, 2019)
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• 176 William Carlos Williams (The Use of Force) (Wed, Jan 23, 2019)
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• 175 Virgin Whore - The Virgin Mary in Medieval Literature and Culture (with Professor Emma Maggie Solberg) (Wed, Jan 16, 2019)
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• 174 David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Special!) (Wed, Jan 09, 2019)
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• 173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee) (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
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• 172 Holiday Movies (with Brian Price) (Wed, Dec 19, 2018)
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• 171 To Sleep Perchance to Dream - On Writers and Death (Wed, Dec 12, 2018)
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• 170 Toni Morrison (Wed, Dec 05, 2018)
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• 169 Dostoevsky (Wed, Nov 28, 2018)
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• 167 F Scott Fitzgerald (Wed, Nov 07, 2018)
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• 166 Stephen King (with the Sisters of Slaughter) (Wed, Oct 31, 2018)
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• 165 Ezra Pound (Wed, Oct 24, 2018)
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• 164 Karl Marx (Wed, Oct 17, 2018)
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• 163 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with Sarah Bird) (Wed, Oct 10, 2018)
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• 161 Voltaire (Wed, Sep 26, 2018)
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• 160 Ray Bradbury (with Carolyn Cohagan) (Mon, Sep 17, 2018)
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• 159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón) (Mon, Sep 10, 2018)
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• 157 Travel Books (with Mike Palindrome) (Wed, Aug 22, 2018)
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• 155 Plato (Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
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• 154 John Milton (Wed, Aug 01, 2018)
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• 153 Charles Dickens (Wed, Jul 25, 2018)
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• 152 George Sand (Wed, Jul 18, 2018)
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• 151 Viking Poetry - The Voluspa (with Noah Tetzner) (Wed, Jul 11, 2018)
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• 150 Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog" (Wed, Jul 04, 2018)
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• 149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World) (Wed, Jun 27, 2018)
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• 147 Leo Tolstoy (Wed, Jun 13, 2018)
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• 146 Power Ranking the Nobel Prize for Literature (Thu, Jun 07, 2018)
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• 145 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story of Lord Byron (Thu, May 31, 2018)
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• 144 Food in Literature (with Ronica Dhar) (Mon, May 21, 2018)
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• 143 A Soldier's Heart - Teaching Literature at the U.S. Military Academy (with Professor Elizabeth Samet) (Mon, May 14, 2018)
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• 142 Comedian Joe Pera Talks with Us (with Joe Pera) (Mon, May 07, 2018)
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• 141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome) (Mon, Apr 30, 2018)
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• 140 Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai) (Mon, Apr 23, 2018)
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• 139 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka (Mon, Apr 16, 2018)
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• 138 Why Poetry (with Matthew Zapruder) (Mon, Apr 09, 2018)
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• 136 The Kids Are All Right (Aren't They?) - Making the Case for Literature (Fri, Mar 23, 2018)
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• 135 Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price) (Fri, Mar 16, 2018)
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• 134 The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life (Sat, Mar 10, 2018)
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• 133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey) (Fri, Mar 02, 2018)
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• 132 Top 10 Literary Villains (Fri, Feb 23, 2018)
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• 131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio) (Thu, Feb 15, 2018)
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• 130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
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• 129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with Mike Palindrome and Reagan Sova) (Thu, Feb 01, 2018)
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• 128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Palindrome) (Fri, Jan 26, 2018)
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• 127 Gertrude Stein (Sat, Jan 20, 2018)
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• 126 Animals in Literature (Part One) (Mon, Jan 15, 2018)
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• 125 Raymond Carver (Sun, Jan 07, 2018)
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• 124 James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2) (Fri, Dec 22, 2017)
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• 123 James Joyce’s The Dead (Part 1) (Tue, Dec 19, 2017)
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• 122 Young James Joyce (Fri, 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) (Wed, Dec 06, 2017)
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• 119 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (Wed, Nov 22, 2017)
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• 118 Oscar’s Ghost – The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy (with Laura Lee) (Tue, Nov 14, 2017)
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• 117 Machiavelli and The Prince (Fri, Nov 03, 2017)
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• 116 Ghost Stories! (Sat, Oct 28, 2017)
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• 115 The Genius of Alice Munro (Mon, Oct 23, 2017)
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• 114 Christopher Marlowe – What Happened and What If? (Mon, Oct 16, 2017)
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• 112 The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor – Unpacking Nabokov’s Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris) (Sat, Sep 30, 2017)
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• 111 The Americanest American – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Mon, Sep 25, 2017)
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• 110 Heart of Darkness – Then and Now (Mon, Sep 18, 2017)
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• 109 Women of Mystery (with Christina Kovac) (Wed, Sep 13, 2017)
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• 108 Beowulf (aka Need a Hero? Get a Grip…) (Thu, Sep 07, 2017)
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• 107 The Man and the Myth – Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (with Mattias Bostrom) (Thu, Aug 31, 2017)
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• 106 Literature Goes to the Movies, Part Two – Flops, Bombs, and Stinkeroos (Thu, Aug 24, 2017)
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• 105 Funny Women, Crimes Against Book Clubs, George Orwell, and More (with Kathy Cooperman) (Thu, Aug 17, 2017)
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• 104 King Lear (Thu, Aug 10, 2017)
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• 102 Pablo Neruda (Thu, Jul 27, 2017)
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• 100 The Greatest Books with Numbers in the Title (Thu, Jul 06, 2017)
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• 99 History and Mystery (with Radha Vatsal) (Thu, Jun 29, 2017)
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• 98 Great Literary Feuds (Thu, Jun 22, 2017)
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• 97 Dad Poetry (with Professor Bill) (Thu, Jun 15, 2017)
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• 96 Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard) (Thu, Jun 08, 2017)
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• 95 The Runaway Poets – The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (Mon, May 29, 2017)
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• 94 Smoke, Dusk, and Fire – The Jean Toomer Story (Mon, May 22, 2017)
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• 93 Robert Frost Finds a Friend (Tue, May 16, 2017)
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• 92 The Books of Our Lives (Fri, May 12, 2017)
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• 91 In Which John Donne Decides to Write a Poem About a Flea (Fri, May 05, 2017)
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• 90 Mark Twain’s Final Request (Fri, Apr 28, 2017)
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• 89 Primo Levi (Fri, Apr 21, 2017)
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• 87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence (Fri, Apr 07, 2017)
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• 86 Don Juan in Literature (aka The Case of the Red-Hot Lover) (Sun, Apr 02, 2017)
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• 85 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Mon, Mar 27, 2017)
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• 84 The Trials of Oscar Wilde (Fri, Mar 17, )(2017 -0000 04:02:00, )
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• 83 Overrated! Top 10 Books You Don’t Need to Read (Fri, Mar 10, 2017)
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• 82 Robinson Crusoe (Fri, Mar 03, 2017)
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• 81 Faust (aka The Devil Went Down to Germany) (Fri, Feb 24, 2017)
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• 80 Power Play! Shakespeare’s Henry V (Fri, Feb 17, 2017)
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• 79 Music That Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Fri, Feb 10, 2017)
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• 78 Jane Eyre, The Good Soldier, Giovanni’s Room (with Margot Livesey) (Fri, Feb 03, 2017)
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• 77 Top 10 Literary Cities (Fri, Jan 27, 2017)
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• 76 Darkness and the Power of Literature – The Forbidden Stories of North Korea (with Terry Hong) (Wed, Jan 18, 2017)
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• 75 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki (Wed, Jan 11, 2017)
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• 74 Great First Chapters (with Vu Tran) (Sun, Jan 01, 2017)
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• 73 Javier Marias and the Philosophical Novel (Tue, Dec 27, 2016)
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• 72 The Best Christmas Stories in Literature (Mon, Dec 19, 2016)
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• 70 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Mon, Dec 05, 2016)
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• 69 Virginia Woolf and Her Enemies (with Professor Andrea Zemgulys) / Children’s Books (Mon, Nov 28, 2016)
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• 68 Listener Feedback and Thanksgiving Thoughts (Wed, Nov 23, 2016)
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• 67 Pascal’s Wager and an American Election (Fri, Nov 18, 2016)
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• 66 James Baldwin, Wallace Stegner, GB Tran, Lois Duncan (with author Shawna Yang Ryan) (Fri, Nov 04, 2016)
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• 65 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler) (Fri, Oct 28, 2016)
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• 64 Dorothy Parker (Mon, Oct 24, 2016)
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• 63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter) (Fri, Oct 14, 2016)
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• 62 Bad Poetry (Fri, Oct 07, 2016)
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• 60 Great Literary Endings (Fri, Sep 23, 2016)
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• 59 Flannery O’Connor (Fri, Sep 16, 2016)
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• 58 Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists (with Professor Paul Peppis) (Fri, Sep 09, 2016)
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• 57 Borges, Munro, Davis, Barthelme – All About Short Stories (And Long Ones Too) (Fri, Sep 02, 2016)
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• 56 Shelley, HD, Yeats, Frost, Stevens – The Poetry of Ruins (with Professor Bill Hogan) (Fri, Aug 26, 2016)
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• 55 James Joyce (with Vincent O’Neill) (Fri, Aug 19, 2016)
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• 54 The Greatest Books Ever (Part 2) (Fri, Aug 12, 2016)
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• 53 Romeo and Juliet (Fri, Aug 05, 2016)
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• 52 Recommend This! The Best 101 Books for College-Bound Readers (Fri, Jul 29, 2016)
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• 51 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Person from Porlock – A Literary Mystery (Mon, Jul 18, 2016)
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• 50 Othello (Mon, Jul 11, 2016)
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• 49 MFA Programs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Mon, Jul 04, 2016)
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• 48 Hamlet (Mon, Jun 27, 2016)
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• 47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald (Mon, Jun 20, 2016)
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• 46 Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty (Mon, Jun 13, 2016)
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• 45 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 2) (Mon, Jun 06, 2016)
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• 44 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 1) (Mon, May 30, 2016)
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• 43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger) (Mon, May 23, 2016)
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• 42 Was Prince a Poet? (Mon, May 16, 2016)
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• 41 The New Testament (with Professor Kyle Keefer) (Mon, May 09, 2016)
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• 40 Radha Vatsal, Author of “A Front Page Affair” (Mon, May 02, 2016)
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• 39 Graham Greene (Mon, Apr 25, 2016)
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• 38 Literary Duos (Part Two) (Mon, Apr 18, 2016)
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• 37 Literary Duos (Part One) (Mon, Apr 11, 2016)
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• 36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus) (Mon, Mar 28, 2016)
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• 35 A Conversation with Ronica Dhar (Mon, Mar 21, 2016)
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• 33 – The Bhagavad Gita (Mon, 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) (Thu, Mar 03, 2016)
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• 28 The Ramayana (Mon, Jan 25, 2016)
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• 27 The Upanishads (Part Two) (Mon, Jan 18, 2016)
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• 11 The Upanishads (Part One) (Mon, Jan 11, 2016)
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• 10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast (Thu, Jan 07, 2016)
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• 9 Confucius (Mon, Jan 04, 2016)
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• 8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry) (Mon, Dec 21, 2015)
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• 7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry (Thu, Dec 17, 2015)
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• 7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes (Mon, Dec 14, 2015)
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• 6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (Mon, Dec 07, 2015)
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• 5 Greek Tragedy (Part One) (Mon, Nov 30, 2015)
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• 4 Sappho (Mon, Nov 23, 2015)
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• 3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso (Mon, Nov 16, 2015)
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• 3 Homer (Mon, Nov 09, 2015)
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• 2A The Book of Job (Thu, Oct 29, 2015)
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• 2 The Hebrew Bible (Mon, Oct 26, 2015)
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• 1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh (Thu, Oct 15, 2015)
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• 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mon, Oct 12, 2015)
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• Episode 0 – Battling the Beast (Sat, Oct 10, 2015)
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