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The History of Literature — 768 episodes
801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)
800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker
799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert
799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited)
798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ramie Targoff
798 Emma Smith and Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (Revisited)
797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited)
796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited)
795 Will Tosh and Queer Shakespeare (Revisited)
794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with Gerri Kimber
793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with Peter Budrin) | My Last Book with Edward Watts
792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sperry) | My Last Book with Bruce Gordon
791 Emilia Lanier (a.k.a Aemilia Bassano Lanyer) Revisited
790 Madness and Myth (with Natasha Joukovsky) | My Last Book with Kimberly Lau
789 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Cass Sunstein
788 John Ruskin (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Francesca Wade
787 Why Poetry with Matthew Zapruder Encore
786 Cherokee Novelist and Poet John Rollin Ridge (with Travis Franks)
785 Literature in an Age of Anti-Immigration Sentiment (with Daniel Olivas) | My Last Book with Janet Todd
784 Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King (with William O. Stephens)
783 Southern Imagining (with Elleke Boehmer) | My Last Book with John McMurtrie
782 Consent in the Regency Novel (with Zoë McGee)
781 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings | My Last Book with Rhodri Lewis
780 Chekhov on Writing (with Bob Blaisdell)
779 Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises (with Mike Palindrome) RECLAIMED
778 A History of Aphorisms (with James Geary) | My Last Book with Paul Chrystal
777 T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" | "The Story of the Marquis de Cressy" by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (with Kate Deimling)
776 Mary Shelley in Bath (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with D.G. Hampton
775 Celebrity Authorship in the Nineteenth Century (with Sarah Allison) | My Last Book with Emily Van Duyne
774 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Leo Damrosch)
773 The Films of Rob Reiner (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Matt Abrahams
772 Thucydides and The History of the Peloponnesian War (with Polly Low and Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with James West
771 Shakespeare and the Generation of Genius - The Role of Performing Arts in education (with Robin Lithgow) - RECLAIMED
770 Shakespeare and Civility (with Indira Ghose) | Robert W. Service and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
769 The European Byron (with Jonathan Gross) | The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (#3 GBOAT)
768 Young James Baldwin (with Nicholas Boggs) | My Last Book with Bruce Robbins
767 A Black Woman in the Romantic Archive (with Mathelinda Nabugodi) | My Last Book with Richard Kopley
766 Gertrude Stein (with Francesca Wade) | Ruskin on the Only One Way to Get Art | My Last Book with Holly Baggett
765 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)
764 Two Thousand Years of Roman History (with Edward J. Watts) | My Last Book with Nathan Hensley
763 Emily's Desk Drawer
762 The History of the Sonnet
761 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#4 Greatest Book of All Time)
760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge
759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham
758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (#5 Greatest Book of All Time)
757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)
756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | My Last Book with Jake Poller
755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric White
753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | Giving Thanks | My Last Book with Eve Dunbar
752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book with Keith Cooper
751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book with Sharmila Sen
750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Carol Oates vs the Trillionaire | My Last Book with Ken Krimstein
749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark) | #7 Greatest Book of All Time
748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker Who Burgled Him | My Last Book with Emerson Expert Kenneth Sacks
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
746 Wild Jane Austen (with Devoney Looser) | #9 Greatest Book of All Time
745 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (Halloween Fun-Size Edition)
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
743 Fairy Tales (with Jack Zipes) [RECLAIMED] | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (#11 GBOAT) | Chaucer News
742 Edgar Allan Poe (with Richard Kopley) | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (#12 GBOAT) | My Last Book with Christopher Herbert
741 Gabriela Mistral
740 Mel Brooks and Other Eminent Jews (with David Denby) | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (#13 GBOAT)
739 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (#14 GBOAT) | Johannes Gutenberg (with Eric Marshall White)
738 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (#15 Greatest Book of All Time)
737 "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
736 Jane Austen's Favorite Brother, Henry (with Christopher Herbert) | A Letter from the South of France | My Last Book with Nicholas Jenkins
735 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with Graham Watson
734 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (#16 GBOAT) | 1925 - A Literary Encyclopedia (with Tom Lutz)
733 Haruki Murakami (with Mike Palindrome | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (#17 GBOAT) | A Letter from Tehran
732 The Bible (#18 GBOAT) | The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (with Kate Loveman) | Health Advice
731 The Brothers Karamazov Reclaimed (#19 Greatest Book of All Time)
730 "To Autumn" by John Keats | The Invention of Charlotte Brontë (with Graham Watson) | My Last Book with Sara Charles
729 Milton the Revolutionary (with Orlando Reade) | My Last Book with Jodi Picoult | More Exciting News
728 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (#20 GBOAT) | Lorraine Hansberry - RECLAIMED
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
726 England vs France - A Literary Battle Royale (with Mike Palindrome) - RECLAIMED
725 The Trial by Franz Kafka (#21 GBOAT) | Edith Wharton and Patrick O'Brian (with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith) | An Uplifting Story
724 The Stranger by Albert Camus (#22 Greatest Book of All Time) | Christopher Isherwood (with Jake Poller) | Postcard from a Listener in Yunnan
723 The Moral Rights of Authors (with Mira T Sundara Rajan) | My Last Book with Radha Vatsal
722 Kerouac's Road - A Conversation with Ebs Burnough, Director of a New Kerouac Documentary | My Last Book with Beat Generation Expert Steven Belletto
721 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (The #23 Greatest Book of All Time)
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)
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
718 Jim - The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (with Shelley Fisher Fishkin) | Mark Twain's Dreams
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
716 Icelandic Folk Legends (with Dagrun Osk Jonsdottir) | John le Carre at the Bodleian
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
714 The Real Charles Dickens (with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas) | Dickens and the Theatre
713 The Odyssey (with Daniel Mendelsohn) | The History of Literature Podcast Tour!
712 Shakespeare's Greatest Love (with David Medina) | New Play About Shakespeare's Collaboration with Marlowe
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?
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)
709 Black American Humor (with Damon Young) | The Greatest American Joke Ever Told?
708 Science Fact and Science Fiction (with Keith Cooper) | AI Discovers a Work of Ancient Philosophy and Dreams Up a Reading List
707 Emile Zola (with Robert Lethbridge) | Graham Greene's Only Ghost Story | My Last Book with Irina Mashinski
706 Living with Jane Austen (with Janet Todd) | A Listener Changes His Life | Bored Parents
705 Runaway Poets - How the Brownings Fell in Love (And Why It Matters)
704 Butterflies Regained
703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey
702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!
701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick!
700 - Butterflies at Rest
699 Gatsby's Daisy (with Rachel Feder) | My Last Book with Francesca Peacock
698 Dante in Love (with Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio) [Ad-Free Archive Edition]
697 Race in European Fairy Tales (with Kimberly Lau) | My Last Book with Rolf Hellebust
696 John Ruskin (with Sara Atwood) | My Last Book with Collin Jennings
695 Ten Indian Classics (with Sharmila Sen) | My Last Book with Adam Smyth
694 Apocalyptic Literature (with Dorian Lynskey) | My Last Book with Charles Baxter
693 Understanding the Wonders of Nature (with Alan Lightman) | My Last Book with Alan Lightman
692 An Investigation in Chinatown (with Radha Vatsal) | The Five Books (with Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen)
691 The Making of Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson) | My Last Book with Cheryl Hopson
690 Coleridge and the Person from Porlock [Ad-Free]
689 Thomas Kyd (with Brian Vickers) | My Last Book with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder
688 Georges Simenon
687 Gatsby Turns 100 (with James West)
686 Russian Poetry After the Cold War (with Stephanie Sandler)
685 Charles Chesnutt (with Tess Chakkalakal) | My Last Book with John Goodby
684 The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)
683 Marianne Moore (with Cristanne Miller)
682 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) [Ad-Free Re-Release]
681 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 3 | My Last Book by Colm Tóibín
680 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 2
679 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 1
678 Fernando Pessoa (with Bartholomew Ryan) | My Last Book with Robin Waterfield
677 Dylan Thomas (with John Goodby) | Emily Brontë and the Search for Hope
676 "Mrs Spring Fragrance" by Sui Sin Far (with Mike Palindrome)
675 Zora Neale Hurston (with Cheryl Hopson) | Jack Kerouac's Newly Discovered Writings
674 Nabokov vs Freud (with Joshua Ferris) [Ad-Free Re-Release]
673 Edna Ferber (with Julie Gilbert) | My Last Book with Jessica Kirzane
672 The Little Review (with Holly A. Baggett) | My Last Book with Phil Jones
671 Shakespeare's Tragic Art (with Rhodri Lewis) | My Last Book with Joel Warner
670 The Parable
669 Obsessed with Melville (with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder) | My Last Book with Alexander Poots
668 Book and Dagger - The Scholars and Librarians Who Became Spies and Fought the Nazis (with Elyse Graham) | Jane Austen Turns 250
667 Sui Sin Far (with Victoria Namkung) | My Last Book with Samantha Rose Hill
666 "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Lev Grossman
665 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian) [Ad-Free Encore Edition]
664 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2 [Ad-Free Encore Version]
663 James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 1 [Ad-Free Encore Edition]
662 Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction - Black Women Writing Under Segregation (with Eve Dunbar) | My Last Book with Deni Kasa
661 James Baldwin (with Colm Tóibín)
660 "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | My Last Book with Amelia Possanza
659 The Legend of King Arthur (with Lev Grossman)
658 "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay | Literary Journeys (with John McMurtrie)
657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele Pedulla
656 Novelist Chigozie Obioma on Literature, Life, and His Love for Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day [HOL Encore]
655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with Mary Flannery
654 Loving (and Reclaiming) Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne)
653 J.D. Salinger
652 Writing a Comic Novel (with Charles Baxter) | My Last Book with Bill Eville
651 Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey | The Heroine's Labyrinth (with Douglas Burton) | My Last Book with Douglas Burton
650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi)
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
648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book with Sandra Spanier
647 The Brontes [HOL Encore]
646 Discovering a Long Lost Slave Narrative (with Jonathan D.S. Schroeder)
645 Richard Wright
644 Jack Kerouac (with Steven Belletto)
643 Aesop and His Fables (with Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with Boel Westin
642 Theater and Democracy (with James Shapiro)
641 Blood, Guts, and Books - Inside the Medieval Scriptorium (with Sara Charles) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Coggeshall
640 Chaucer the Merry Bard (with Mary Flannery)
639 Immersed in Print (with Geoffrey Turnovsky) | My Last Book with Liz Rosenberg
638 Thomas Mann
637 From the Archives - Heart of Darkness (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Fred Waitzkin
636 Emily Dickinson's Letters (with Cristanne Miller)
635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book with Adelle Waldman
634 The Bible: A Global History (with Bruce Gordon) | My Last Book with Michelle P Brown
633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) | My Last Book with Andrew Stauffer
632 Norman Mailer (with J. Michael Lennon)
631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood
630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico
629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer)
628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki
627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino)
626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams
625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg)
E624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro
623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics
622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)
621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees
619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding
618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon
617 Politics and Grace in Early Modern Literature (with Deni Kasa) | Mike Recommends... James Baldwin! | My Last Book with Carlos Allende
616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai
615 A Conversation with Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed
614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke
613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel
612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus
611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter
610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James MacManus
609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Dabashi
608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Gareth Russell
607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My Last Book with Edward Chamberlin
606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe)
605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)
604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Book with Valeria Sobol
603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)
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
601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)
600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with Rupert Holmes)
599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton) | My Last Book with David Sterling Brown
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
597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas Dames
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
595 Machiavelli (with Gabriele Pedulla) | My Last Book with Sarah Ruden
594 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
593 Vladimir Propp (with Mike Palindrome) | The Russian Gothic (with Valeria Sobol) | My Last Book with Vanessa Riley
592 Virgil (with Sarah Ruden) | Darwin and Gaskell | My Last Book with Tom Holland
591 William Wordsworth
590 Blotted Lines (with Adhaar Noor Desai) | My Last Book with Lara Vetter
589 Dante and Friendship (with Elizabeth Coggeshall) | My Last Book with Dr Tara Bynum
588 China in African Literature (with Duncan Yoon) | My Last Book with Katherine Howe
587 Byron's Letters (with Andrew Stauffer) | My Last Book with Jonathan van Belle
586 The Czech Manuscripts Hoax (with David Cooper) | My Last Book with Jesse Kavadlo
585 Plots and the Modern Novelist (with Pardis Dabashi) | My Last Book with Anne Enright
584 A Conversation with James MacManus | My Last Book with Peter K Andersson
583 Margaret Cavendish (with Francesca Peacock) | My Last Book with Patrick Whitmarsh
582 Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Myron Tuman
581 The Venerable Bede (with Michelle P. Brown) | My Last Book with Adrian Edwards
580 Thoreau at Work (with Jonathan van Belle) | My Last Book with Andrew Pettegree
579 New Year New You! Conversations with Bethanne Patrick and Aislyn Greene
578 Chapters (with Nicholas Dames) | My Last Book (with Hamid Dabashi)
Life and Art from FT Weekend: Books Books Books!
577 'Twas the Night Before Controversy - The Raging Dispute Over a Classic Christmas Poem | My Last Book (with Marion Turner)
576 Love and Art in a Time of Hate - How European Artists and Intellectuals Survived the 1930s (with Florian Illies)
575 A History of the Fool (with Peter Andersson) | My Last Book with Ed Simon
574 The Book at War (with Andrew Pettegree) | My Last Book with Robin Lane Fox
573 A Conversation with Anne Enright, Winner of the Man Booker Prize | My Last Book with Christopher Morash
572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)
571 Shakespeare's White Others (with David Sterling Brown) | My Last Book with Shilpi Suneja
570 Pirates! (with Katharine Howe)
569 The Man with a Passion for Medieval Manuscripts (with Christopher de Hamel) | My Last Book with Maaheen Ahmed
568 The Tempest (with Laurie Frankel)
567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zipes
566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards)
565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with Honor Cargill-Martin
564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter)
563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)
562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman)
561 Homer and His Iliad (with Robin Lane Fox) | A Quick Hit of Witches (with Katherine Howe)
560 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
559 Washington Irving | My Last Book with Joe Skinner
558 Black Nature Writing (with Erin Sharkey)
557 Somerset Maugham (with Tan Twan Eng)
556 The Story Behind a Children's Classic - Anna Sewell and the Writing of 'Black Beauty' (with Celia Brayfield)
555 What Was Shakespeare Really Like? (with Sir Stanley Wells) | My Last Book with David Ellis
554 John Ashbery (with Jess Cotton) | My Last Book with David van den Berg
553 A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | My Last Book with Max Saunders
552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja)
551 Charlotte Lennox and The Female Quixote (Forgotten Women of Literature 8) | My Last Book with Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan
550 F Scott Fitzgerald (with Arthur Krystal) | My Last Book with Jed Rasula
549 Forgotten Women of Literature 7 - Ursula Parrott (with Marsha Gordon)
548 Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)
547 Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (with William Egginton)
546 The Cambridge Companion to Comics (with Maaheen Ahmed) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Winkler
545 Milton's Paradise Lost - A Personal Journey (with Ed Simon)
544 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (with Mike Palindrome)
543 A Philosopher's Guide to Rome (with Scott Samuelson)
542 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James (Pt 2)
541 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
540 A Black Queen in Exile (with Vanessa Riley) | My Last Book with Jolene Hubbs
539 Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome)
538 Writing Our Extinction (with Patrick Whitmarsh) | My Last Book with Christina Jarvis
537 The Persian Prince (with Hamid Dabashi)
536 Literary New Orleans (with TR Johnson) | My Last Book with Len Webb and Vincent Williams
535 The Australian Novelist Who Writes History Through Women's Eyes (with Pip Williams)
534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead
532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)
529 Ten Thousand Things and the Asian American Experience (with Shin Yu Pai) | My Last Book with Ross Benjamin
528 Literary Dublin (with Chris Morash) | A Poem by Shin Yu Pai | My Last Book with John Higgs
527 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (with Elizabeth Winkler) | My Last Book with Megan Marshall
526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
525 Don DeLillo (with Jesse Kavadlo)
524 Growing Old with The Graduate - Mike Nichols, Roger Ebert, Charles Webb, and Me
523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)
522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino
521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
520 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
519 Shakespeare's First Folio (with Emma Smith) | My Last Book with Luke Parker
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
517 The Marquis de Sade
516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor)
515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer
514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer
513 The Writers of Northern Ireland (with Alexander Poots) | My Last Book with Laura Lee
512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with Scott Carter
511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell
510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2)
509 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 1)
508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris
507 The Class of 1989 - A Special Year in Black Cinema (with Len Webb and Vincent Williams)
506 Black Shakespeare (with Ian Smith) | My Last Book with David Castillo and William Egginton
505 Ford Madox Ford (with Max Saunders) | My Last Book with Bethanne Patrick
504 Persuasion (Book Two) (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Juliette Bretan
503 Persuasion (Book One) (with Gina Buonaguro)
502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski
501 The Naked World (with Irina Mashinski)
500 Episode 500! Meg White, Listener Emails, Johnson and Boswell, and More! (with Margot Livesey)
499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)
498 A New Novel by a Legendary Independent Filmmaker (with John Sayles)
497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
496 The Wife of Bath (with Marion Turner)
495 The Creative Spark (with Joe Skinner)
494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate
492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
Introducing YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER
490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)
489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)
487 Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche (with John Higgs)
486 The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (with Melissa J. Homestead)
485 Reading Pleasures - Everyday Black Living in Early America (with Dr Tara Bynum)
484 Reading John Milton (with Stephen Dobranski)
483 Margaret Fuller (with Megan Marshall)
482 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part Two)
481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
480 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (with Ritchie Robertson)
479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb)
478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)
477 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 2 - "The Vice of Reading")
476 Does Edith Wharton Hate You? (Part 1 - "Xingu")
475 Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (with Emma Smith)
474 Herman Melville
473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)
472 The Art of Not Knowing
471 Angels of War (with Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner
470 Two Christmas Days - A Holiday Story by Ida B. Wells
469 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (with Gina Buonaguro)
468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell)
467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)
465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober)
464 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Mature Years
463 Friedrich Nietzsche (with Ritchie Robertson)
462 My Last Book (with Laurie Frankel)
461 The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)
460 Rabindranath Tagore
459 Eve Bites Back! An Alternative History of English Literature (with Anna Beer)
458 Alexander Pushkin (with Robert Chandler)
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)
456 Maya Angelou
455 Gustave Flaubert
454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story
453 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Dr Rae Wynn-Grant)
452 Charles and Mary Lamb | A Letter To My Transgender Daughter (with Carolyn Hays)
451 Mary Shelley
450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
449 Method Acting and "Bad Hamlet" (with Isaac Butler)
448 Lewis Carroll (with Charlie Lovett)
447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)
446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan)
443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick)
442 Prince, Emperor, Sage - Bābur and the Bāburnāma (with Anuradha)
441 When Novels Were Novel (with Jason Feifer)
440 Emma's Pick - "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
439 Poets' Guide to Economics (with John Ramsden)
438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome)
437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature Presents: Missing Pages
436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)
435 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 2 - The Virginia Woolf Story That Changed Everything
434 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 1 - Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story
433 Emma's Pick - "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)
431 Langston Hughes
430 In Shakespeare's Shadow (with Michael Blanding)
429 Books I Have Loved (with Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, and Jim Shepard)
428 Edward Gibbon (with Zachary Karabell)
427 Bashō's Best - Haiku and the Essence of Life
426 Matsuo Bashō - Haiku's Greatest Master
425 Tom Stoppard (with Scott Carter)
424 Karel Čapek (with Ian Coss)
423 Roger Ebert
422 Wallace Stegner (with Melodie Edwards)
421 HOL Goes to the Movies (A Best-of Episode with Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome)
420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende)
419 Christina Rossetti
418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
417 What Happened on Roanoke Island? (with Kimberly Brock)
416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)
415 "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti
414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs)
413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
412 HOL Goes to War (with Elizabeth Samet, Matt Gallagher, and Tom Roston)
411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)
409 "Fear and Trembling" (The Story of Abraham and Isaac) by Soren Kierkegaard
408 Dylan Thomas (with Scott Carter)
407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
406 A World in Turmoil - 1967-1971 (with Beverly Gologorsky)
405 Kierkegaard Falls in Love
404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)
403 The Wonderful World of Mysteries (A Best-of-HOL Episode)
Introducing "The History of Literature"
402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
401 HOL Presents: Melissa Chadburn and The Throwaways (A Storybound Project) | PLUS The First Work of Literature by an African American Author
400 Anniversary Special! (with Mike Palindrome)
399 Stephen Crane (with Linda H. Davis)
398 Fernando Pessoa
397 Plath, Hughes, and the "Other Woman" - Assia Wevill and Her Writings (with Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter Steinberg)
396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark)
395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)
394 Freud and Fiction | PLUS An Assia Wevill Preview
393 Writers in Odessa, Ukraine's "Black Sea Pearl" | PLUS Margot Reads Boswell
392 Sigmund Freud
391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome)
390 Victor Hugo
389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson)
388 Sense and Sensibility
387 Loving Virginia Woolf | Fashion in Literature (with Lauren S. Cardon)
386 Gogol's Ukrainian Nights | HOL Presents "Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript" (A Book Dreams Podcast)
385 The Gettysburg Address
384 A Writer's Tools - Top 10 Literary Terms and Devices | PLUS F. Scott Fitzgerald's Writing Advice
383 The Radical Woman Who Wrote 'Goodnight Moon' - The Story of Margaret Wise Brown (with the New Yorker's Anna Holmes)
382 Forbidden Victorian Love (with Mimi Matthews) | The Poet Who Hated Love | Does Margot Still Love Boswell and Johnson
381 C Subramania Bharati (with Mira T Sundara Rajan)
380 Ian Fleming | PLUS The Black James Bond
379 Gwendolyn Brooks | Bharati Preview 2 (with Mira Sundara Rajan)
378 Liu Xinwu and the "Scar Literature" of China (with Jeremy Tiang) | Bharati Sneak Preview (with Mira Sundara Rajan)
377 The Brothers Grimm | Jeremy Tiang Sneak Preview
376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)
375 The Power of Literature | PLUS Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (with Margot Livesey)
374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
373 Roald Dahl
372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)
371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce)
370 Oscar Wilde - A Life (with Matthew Sturgis) | PLUS A Glimpse of Literary Hell (with Scott G. Bruce)
369 Rilke and the Search for God
368 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell)
367 The Beatles and the Power of Narrative | Tolstoy on Twitter
366 Evelyn Waugh (with Phil Klay)
365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz
364 Bob Dylan, the Blues, and Songs with Literary Power (with Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez)
363 William Butler Yeats
362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)
360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel) | Tolstoy's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
359 Forgotten Women of Literature 6 - Eliza Haywood and Fantomina | PLUS Keats's Letter on Shakespeare and "Negative Capability"
358 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine Griffin) | Charles Dickens's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
357 Little Women Remixed (with Bethany C. Morrow) | Thomas Jefferson's Gospel (with Scott Carter)
356 Louisa May Alcott
355 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
354 Treasure Island Remixed (with C.B. Lee)
353 Oscar Wilde in Prison (with Scott Carter)
352 Charles Baudelaire (with Aaron Poochigian)
351 Mary Wollstonecraft (with Samantha Silva)
350 Mystery! (with Jonah Lehrer)
349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)
348 Philip Roth (with Mike Palindrome)
347 The Prisoner and His Prize - The Story of O Henry (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
346 For Whom the Beast Leaps (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 3)
345 Great Literary Centuries (with Mike Palindrome)
344 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Beast (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 2)
343 The Feast in the Jungle (Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Part 1)
342 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (with Laura Marsh)
341 Constance and Henry - The Story of "Miss Grief"
340 Forgotten Women of Literature 5 - Constance Fenimore Woolson
339 Jack Kerouac
338 Finding Yourself in Hollywood (with Meg Tilly)
337 Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus (with A. Natasha Joukovsky)
336 Painting the Paintings in Literature (with Charlie Stein)
335 Machado de Assis (with Cláudia Laitano)
334 Katherine Mansfield
333 Tristram Shandy
332 Hamlet (with Laurie Frankel)
331 "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth
330 Middlemarch (with Yang Huang)
329 Miguel de Cervantes
328 Aristophanes (with Aaron Poochigian)
327 Natalia Ginzburg
HoL Presents The REAL Little Women (from the Book Dreams Podcast)
326 Rimbaud
325 Philip Larkin
HoL Presents The Graduate (from the Overdue Podcast)
324 Ralph Ellison | Blocked! (Top 10 Cases of Writer's Block)
323 Salman Rushdie
322 Djuna Barnes
321 Thucydides
320 Henry James
319 Frances (Fanny) Burney
318 Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
317 My Antonia by Willa Cather
316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)
315 Gabriel García Márquez and the Incredible and Sad (and Marvelous) World
314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)
313 "Spring Snow" (from The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima
312 Yukio Mishima
311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
309 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (a Storybound project)
308 New Westerns (with Anna North)
306 Keats's Great Odes (with Anahid Nersessian)
305 The Remains of the Day
304 Kazuo Ishiguro (with Chigozie Obioma)
303 The Search for Darcy - Jane Austen, Tom Lefroy, and the World of Pride and Prejudice
302 Jane in Love - The Story of Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy
301 Reading Proust with Strangers
300 Frederick Douglass
299 The Cherry Orchard
298 Amyra León!
297 The Scarlet Letter
296 Nathaniel Hawthorne
295 The Past, The Future, and Chekhov
292 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
291 The Book of Firsts (with Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal)
290 The Seagull (Chekhov)
289 Swann's Way
288 The Triumph of Broadway (with Michael Riedel)
287 The Heptameron | Marguerite de Navarre
286 JRR Tolkien
285 Herodotus
284 Westerns (with Anna North)
283 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Top 10 Literary Modes of Transportation
282 Science Fiction
281 The Great Gatsby
280 Romance Novels
279 Jean Rhys
278 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)
277 George Orwell
276 Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Detective Story | "The Purloined Letter"
275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford)
274 Baudelaire and the Flowers of Evil
273 The Book for Book Lovers - The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book (with Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley)
272 "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe (with Evie Lee)
271 "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Solo Special!)
270 Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat"
268 Forgotten Women of Literature 4 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
267 Great Scot! The 6 Best Scottish Writers (with Margot Livesey)
265 Forgotten Women of Literature 3 | Aemelia Lanyer
264 HoL Presents Tommy Orange's "Copperopolis" (a Storybound Project) | PLUS a Visit from Jacke Lonelyhearts
263 Forgotten Women of Literature 2 - Cai Yan (Wenji)
262 Ovid
261 Forgotten Women of Literature - Enheduanna (with Charles Halton)
260 HoL Presents Diksha Basu from the Storybound Project
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")
Hatchet Jobs! When Reviewers Attack
Shakespeare's Best | Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")
TS Eliot | The Waste Land
Anna Karenina
The Brontes' Secret Scandal (with Finola Austin)
Beatrix Potter
Stendhal
The History of Literature Presents: Storybound (with Mitchell S. Jackson)
Raymond Carver (with Tom Perrotta)
Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron
Joyce Carol Oates (with Evie Lee)
Alexandre Dumas
Keeping Secrets! Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, and the CIA (with Lara Prescott)
William Faulkner | Dry September
Literary Battle Royal 2 - The Cold War (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.)
More Thoreau | Experiencing Nature (with Nina Shengold)
The Seven Deadly Sins
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (with Amanda Stern)
Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 3
Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman 2
Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman
C.S. Lewis
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
James Baldwin - Going To Meet the Man
William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
Baldwin v Faulkner
Jorge Luis Borges
"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Albert Camus
"Speech Sounds" by Octavia Butler
The Best of the Bard: Top 10 Greatest Lines in Shakespeare
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino | The African Library Project
A Lost Spring (with Professor Mitchell Nathanson)
After Rain by William Trevor
Extra by Yiyun Li
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Kate Chopin
Kipling, Kingsley, and Conan Doyle - When Writers Go to War (with Sarah LeFanu)
Special Quarantine Edition - Gusev by Anton Chekhov
Special Quarantine Edition - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Edith Wharton
More John Keats
Conflict Literature (with Matt Gallagher)
John Keats
Agatha Christie (with Gillian Gill)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Saul Bellow
Living Poetry (with Bob Holman)
William Blake
Chekhov
Virginia Woolf (with Gillian Gill)
The Magic Mountain
Jonathan Swift
Sylvia Plath
Margaret Atwood
Thomas Hardy
George Saunders (with Mike Palindrome)
Macbeth
Alfred Hitchcock (with Mike Palindrome)
Chinua Achebe
Blood and Sympathy in the 19th Century (with Professor Ann Kibbie)
Weeping for Gogol
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes (with Yuval Taylor)
The Brontes
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marcel Proust
George Eliot
Samuel Beckett
182 Darkness and Light (with Jessica Harper)
181 David Foster Wallace (with Mike Palindrome)
179 The Oscars by Decade (with Brian Price)
178 "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (with Evie Lee)
177 Sherwood Anderson (with Alyson Hagy)
176 William Carlos Williams (The Use of Force)
175 Virgin Whore - The Virgin Mary in Medieval Literature and Culture (with Professor Emma Maggie Solberg)
174 David Foster Wallace (A Mike Palindrome Special!)
173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)
172 Holiday Movies (with Brian Price)
171 To Sleep Perchance to Dream - On Writers and Death
170 Toni Morrison
169 Dostoevsky
168 Jhumpa Lahiri ("The Third and Final Continent")
167 F Scott Fitzgerald
166 Stephen King (with the Sisters of Slaughter)
165 Ezra Pound
164 Karl Marx
163 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with Sarah Bird)
161 Voltaire
160 Ray Bradbury (with Carolyn Cohagan)
159 Herman Melville (with Mike Palindrome and Cristina Negrón)
158 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
157 Travel Books (with Mike Palindrome)
155 Plato
154 John Milton
153 Charles Dickens
152 George Sand
151 Viking Poetry - The Voluspa (with Noah Tetzner)
150 Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog"
149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World)
147 Leo Tolstoy
146 Power Ranking the Nobel Prize for Literature
145 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story of Lord Byron
144 Food in Literature (with Ronica Dhar)
143 A Soldier's Heart - Teaching Literature at the U.S. Military Academy (with Professor Elizabeth Samet)
142 Comedian Joe Pera Talks with Us (with Joe Pera)
E141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome)
140 Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai)
139 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
138 Why Poetry (with Matthew Zapruder)
136 The Kids Are All Right (Aren't They?) - Making the Case for Literature
135 Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)
134 The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life
133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey)
132 Top 10 Literary Villains
131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio)
130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani
129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with Mike Palindrome and Reagan Sova)
128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Palindrome)
127 Gertrude Stein
126 Animals in Literature (Part One)
125 Raymond Carver
124 James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)
123 James Joyce’s The Dead (Part 1)
122 Young James Joyce
121 A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man – John Ashbery’s Early Years (with Karin Roffman)
119 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
118 Oscar’s Ghost – The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy (with Laura Lee)
117 Machiavelli and The Prince
116 Ghost Stories!
115 The Genius of Alice Munro
114 Christopher Marlowe – What Happened and What If?
112 The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor – Unpacking Nabokov’s Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris)
111 The Americanest American – Ralph Waldo Emerson
110 Heart of Darkness – Then and Now
109 Women of Mystery (with Christina Kovac)
108 Beowulf (aka Need a Hero? Get a Grip…)
107 The Man and the Myth – Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (with Mattias Bostrom)
106 Literature Goes to the Movies, Part Two – Flops, Bombs, and Stinkeroos
105 Funny Women, Crimes Against Book Clubs, George Orwell, and More (with Kathy Cooperman)
104 King Lear
102 Pablo Neruda
100 The Greatest Books with Numbers in the Title
99 History and Mystery (with Radha Vatsal)
98 Great Literary Feuds
97 Dad Poetry (with Professor Bill)
96 Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard)
95 The Runaway Poets – The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
94 Smoke, Dusk, and Fire – The Jean Toomer Story
93 Robert Frost Finds a Friend
92 The Books of Our Lives
91 In Which John Donne Decides to Write a Poem About a Flea
90 Mark Twain’s Final Request
89 Primo Levi
87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence
86 Don Juan in Literature (aka The Case of the Red-Hot Lover)
85 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
84 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
83 Overrated! Top 10 Books You Don’t Need to Read
82 Robinson Crusoe
81 Faust (aka The Devil Went Down to Germany)
80 Power Play! Shakespeare’s Henry V
79 Music That Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
78 Jane Eyre, The Good Soldier, Giovanni’s Room (with Margot Livesey)
77 Top 10 Literary Cities
76 Darkness and the Power of Literature – The Forbidden Stories of North Korea (with Terry Hong)
75 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
74 Great First Chapters (with Vu Tran)
73 Javier Marias and the Philosophical Novel
72 The Best Christmas Stories in Literature
70 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
69 Virginia Woolf and Her Enemies (with Professor Andrea Zemgulys) / Children’s Books
68 Listener Feedback and Thanksgiving Thoughts
67 Pascal’s Wager and an American Election
66 James Baldwin, Wallace Stegner, GB Tran, Lois Duncan (with author Shawna Yang Ryan)
65 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler)
64 Dorothy Parker
E63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter)
62 Bad Poetry
60 Great Literary Endings
59 Flannery O’Connor
58 Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists (with Professor Paul Peppis)
57 Borges, Munro, Davis, Barthelme – All About Short Stories (And Long Ones Too)
56 Shelley, HD, Yeats, Frost, Stevens – The Poetry of Ruins (with Professor Bill Hogan)
55 James Joyce (with Vincent O’Neill)
54 The Greatest Books Ever (Part 2)
53 Romeo and Juliet
52 Recommend This! The Best 101 Books for College-Bound Readers
51 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Person from Porlock – A Literary Mystery
50 Othello
49 MFA Programs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
48 Hamlet
47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald
46 Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty
45 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 2)
44 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 1)
43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger)
42 Was Prince a Poet?
E41 The New Testament (with Professor Kyle Keefer)
40 Radha Vatsal, Author of “A Front Page Affair”
39 Graham Greene
E38 Literary Duos (Part Two)
37 Literary Duos (Part One)
E36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus)
E35 A Conversation with Ronica Dhar
33 – The Bhagavad Gita
32 The Best Debut Novels of All Time (A Conversation with the President of the Literature Supporters’ Club)
28 The Ramayana
27 The Upanishads (Part Two)
11 The Upanishads (Part One)
10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast
9 Confucius
8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry)
7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry
7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes
6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
5 Greek Tragedy (Part One)
4 Sappho
3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso
3 Homer
2A The Book of Job
2 The Hebrew Bible
1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh
1 The Epic of Gilgamesh
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