Best Jacke Wilson The Podglomerate Podcasts (2024)

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635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman 1:08:03

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Dealing with reality can be difficult enough, but when the nature of that reality is completely overturned - as it is in a case like the climate crisis - people are left with a feeling of intense uncertainty. What does this mean for us? How do we cope? How, in other words, do we psychologically absorb a revelation that threatens to overwhelm everyt…

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634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown 1:00:35

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For more than two thousand years, the Bible has been an essential part of the world's conception of humanity and its relationship to God. But although it is in some sense timeless and eternal - literally the word of God - the Bible has always meant different things to different people, as individual communities have regarded this sacred book throug…

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633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer 1:12:49

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Discussions of Ernest Hemingway tend to focus on the peaks of his career, which are typically centered around his most famous novels. But Hemingway was busy in between those novels too, writing articles, short stories, and letters to friends and professional acquaintances. In this episode, Jacke talks to Sandra Spanier, general editor of the monume…

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632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon) 1:16:24

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For almost sixty years, Norman Mailer was a fixture on the American literary scene, seemingly as well known for his feuds and personal exploits as he was for his prize-winning novels and groundbreaking journalism. But what was the man really like? As the Library of America commemorates the life and career of Norman Mailer with an edition of his ear…

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631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood 56:25

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Recently, we talked to novelist Jodi Picoult about her contention that many of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by a woman named Emilia Bassano (a.k.a. Aemilia Lanyer). But even as that compelling theory awaits definitive proof, we already know of several women - Shakespeare's contemporaries - who overcame obstacle…

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630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico 1:09:30

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Was Shakespeare gay? Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, says that question has an easy answer - but more importantly, when it comes to understanding Shakespeare's sexuality, it isn't really the right question to ask. In this episode, Jacke talks to Will about his book Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of Wil…

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629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer) 1:02:10

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For thousands of years, desperate writers have struggled with the condition known as writer's block. In this episode, Jacke talks to novelist Kate Feiffer about her book Morning Pages, in which a playwright on a tight deadline tries Julia Cameron's trick of starting her day with some stream-of-consciousness writing - with results that threaten to b…

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628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki 1:07:58

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Is it really true? Did the Elizabethan poet Emilia Bassano (sometimes known as Aemelia Lanyer) actually write Shakespeare's works? A bestselling novelist thinks so - and she's turned her research-based theories into an entertaining and thought-provoking work of fiction. In this episode, Jacke talks to Jodi Picoult about her new book BY ANY OTHER NA…

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627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino) 1:05:16

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It's one of the most famous and admired short stories that Ernest Hemingway ever wrote - and also one of the most controversial. In this episode, Hemingway expert Mark Cirino (host of the One True Podcast) joins Jacke for a discussion of "Hills Like White Elephants," in which a terse exchange between two lovers in a remote Spanish train station rev…

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626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams 1:04:09

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As fans of literature, we all know how powerful and effective storytelling can be. But can we harness that power to help us communicate in our daily lives? In this episode, Jacke talks to Matt Abrahams (Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot) about the lessons we can learn from literature - and how we can …

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625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg) 1:06:38

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Since the publication of Little Women in 1868, millions of readers have gotten to know (and love) Louisa May Alcott through her fiction. But in her own day, Alcott was well known as an essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune and her experience as a Civil War army nurse. In this episode, Jacke ta…

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624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro 1:07:12

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Theater is by nature ephemeral: even the greatest of performances are fleeting, thrilling a single audience before disappearing into history. But what if you could travel through time and space to be present at any production? Where would you go, and what would you see? In this episode, friend of the podcast Laurie Frankel (Family, Family) helps Ja…

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623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics 1:03:04

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The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs is one of the classics of Japanese literature. In this episode, Jacke talks to translator Glynne Walley about this massive - and massively popular and influential - nineteenth-century novel about eight warriors who band together to defend a princess's clan. PLUS Jacke takes a look at the years when the Olympics awarded …

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622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza) 1:10:30

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Lesbians have been around for thousands of years (at least!), but their voices have often fallen victim to censorship, oppression, and ostracization. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Amelia Possanza, whose new book Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives describes Possanza's research into seven love stories for the ages. What can these lesbi…

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621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1:30:41

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For Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy was "the greatest of all novelists," and her argument was simple: "[W]hat else can we call the author of War and Peace?" In this episode, Jacke takes a look at Tolstoy's original plans for the novel; the unusual nature of the book, which Henry James called a "loose, baggy monster"; the contributions of Tolstoy's wife…

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620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees 1:04:34

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What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How did writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others breathe life into the undead - and why did they do it? We can attribute their efforts to the present's desire to remake the past in its own image - but what does…

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619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding 56:12

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Novelist Fred Waitzkin (Searching for Bobby Fischer) stops by to discuss Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, and his new novel Anything Is Good, which tells the story of a childhood friend who was a genius - and who ended up living among the unhoused for years. PLUS Michael Blanding (In Shakespeare's Shadow: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True S…

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618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon 52:26

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Women haven't always been given an equal chance to contribute to literature - but they were writing nevertheless, sometimes just for themselves. In this episode, Jacke talks to Sarah Gristwood (Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries) about her new collection of extracts from four centuries of women's diaries. PLUS Jacke shares a poem by Sharon Ol…

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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 1:12:07

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Early modern poets - John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, Abraham Cowley - lived in a world where theological questions were as hotly contested as political struggles over issues like empire, gender, civil war, and poetic authority. In this episode, Jacke talks to Deni Kasa (The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature) about the ways p…

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616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai 1:11:59

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The relationship between literature and "madwomen" has deep roots. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Suzanne Scanlon (Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen) about her efforts to reclaim the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence. PLUS Jacke talks to Adhar Noor Desai (Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the…

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615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed 1:19:59

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What a treat! First, Jacke talks to Nicholson Baker, an author he's been reading for the past three decades, about Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art, Baker's deeply personal account of his journey learning how to paint for the first time, and a meditation on the power of art in times of crisis. Then Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Re…

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614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke 1:23:41

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Families can provide wonderful material for a writer, but they can also be tricky to navigate. How do you make your stories of home interesting to other people? What's too personal? What's not personal enough? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Bill Eville (Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard) about his pers…

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613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel 1:01:57

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Books are beloved objects, earning lots of praise as amazing pieces of technology and essential contributors to a civilized society. And yet, we often take these cultural miracles for granted. Who's been making these things for the last several centuries? How have they influenced what we've been reading? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Adam …

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612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus 57:16

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Fearless and fiercely intelligent, the nineteenth-century American feminist Margaret Fuller was "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, the group of New Englanders who helped launch a fledgling nation onto the world's cultural and literary stage. In this episode, bestselling historical novelist Allison Pataki, author of the …

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611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter 1:06:47

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Scottish writer John Buchan is perhaps best known for his pioneering thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, the source material for one of Alfred Hitchcock's first great films. But as his biographer (and granddaughter) Ursula Buchan tells Jacke, Buchan was far from a one-hit wonder. John Buchan wrote more than a hundred books of fiction and non-fiction an…

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635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman 1:08:03

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634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown 1:00:35

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633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer 1:12:49

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632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon) 1:16:24

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631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood 56:25

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630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico 1:09:30

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629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer) 1:02:10

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628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki 1:07:58

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627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino) 1:05:16

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626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams 1:04:09

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625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg) 1:06:38

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624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro 1:07:12

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623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics 1:03:04

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622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza) 1:10:30

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621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1:30:41

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620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees 1:04:34

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619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding 56:12

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618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon 52:26

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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 1:12:07

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616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai 1:11:59

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615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed 1:19:59

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614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke 1:23:41

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613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel 1:01:57

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612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus 57:16

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611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter 1:06:47

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