From the archives, Marcel Proust #botd @jackewilson.bsky.social and Mike @literaturesc.bsky.social discuss Swann's Way to see whether this opening volume serves as a good introduction to Marcel Proust's magnum opus In Search of Lost Time. #books #literature

For more about this award-winning book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's talk with Pardis Dabashi in this episode of the History of Literature Podcast! #books #modernism #novels @uchicagopress.bsky.social

For more about the book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Shelley Fischer Fishkin. #books #literature #marktwain @yalepress.bsky.social

In this episode, as America turns 250, @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at the career and major works of Paddy Chayefsky, whose 1976 film Network is often praised for predicting the demise of television (and, perhaps, America itself). #books #screenplays #writing #films #television

"After a short walk with you (how easy it is to write that: a short walk with you. I should stop writing out of shame, because it is so easy.)"– Franz Kafka #botd In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to translator Ross Benjamin about the new edition of Kafka's diaries. #books #literature

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to writer, editor, and translator Daniel Hahn about his new book, If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. #books #literature #shakespeare #translation @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (b. June 28, 1712) is one of the key figures of the Enlightenment, best known for his Social Contract, but in his own time, also known for his novels. In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at Rousseau, the philosopher and novelist. #books #philosophy #novels

For more about this book of early Woolf stories, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Urmila Seshagiri, editor of Woolf's The Life of Violet. #books #literature @princetonupress.bsky.social

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson about her book Becoming George, which examines Sand's iconoclasm and rehabilitates her as an intellectual and artistic giant. #books #literature @wwnorton.com

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell #botd From the archives, @jackewilson.bsky.social discusses Orwell's 1984. #books #literature

Congratulations! For more about this book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Robin Waterfield and Polly Low about Thucydides' achievement and Robin's new translation of The History of the Peloponnesian War. #books #literature @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social

"EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary #botd #books #literature @jackewilson.bsky.social

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn." – Anna Akhmatova, "Lot's Wife" #botd #poetry #literature #books

"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change." – Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower #botd #books #literature

"You get much more out of classics if you revere it less. Amazement, surprise, pleasure, puzzlement, even revulsion, yes. Reverence and gratitude, no." – Mary Beard, Talking Classics #books #classics @uchicagopress.bsky.social @jackewilson.bsky.social

"As a man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust." – Charles Chesnutt #botd #books #literature @jackewilson.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social looks at the social context for the Harlem Renaissance, with a particular focus on works by Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. #books #literature #harlemrenaissance

@holpod.bsky.social podcast interviews author Marjorie Garber on A TREACHEROUS SECRET AGENT.  Listen to the full interview here:

Great Detective! An Adventure for Two People By Jacke Wilson An innovative book that lets two readers experience a literary adventure together. For more info, visit press.historyofliterature.com or email [email protected]. Video credit: Douglas Curran #books #literature

For more about James Baldwin, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Nicholas Boggs about his book Baldwin: A Love Story. #books #literature @fsgbooks.bsky.social

From the archives, in this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at William Butler Yeats (b. June 13, 1865), the poet and playwright who bridged the divide from the traditional verse forms of the nineteenth century to the vivid imagery of modernism. #books #poetry

"How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!" – Guy de Maupassant @jackewilson.bsky.social is joined by Mike Palindrome @literaturesc.bsky.social for a discussion of one of Maupassant's most famous stories, "The Necklace." #books #literature

For more about this book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Marjorie Garber in Episode 808 on the History of Literature Podcast. #books #literature @yalepress.bsky.social

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social offers some reasons to love the poetry of Robert Browning, such as "My Last Duchess." Jacke then talks to author Elisabeth Paling Funk about her book The Dutch World of Washington Irving. #books #literature @cornellupress.bsky.social

For more about this book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Rhodri Lewis. #books #literature #shakespeare @princetonupress.bsky.social @rhodrilewis.bsky.social

For more about Margaret Fuller, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with biographer Megan Marshall, author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. #books #biography #margaretfuller @harpercollins.bsky.social

“Thoughts should be real. Words should have a definite meanings and a man should believe what he said.” – Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift #botd #books #literature #saulbellow

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@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Marjorie Garber about the long reach of authors like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Kyd, and others, whose works exposed the lies and hypocrisies of one of America's darkest periods. #books #literature @yalepress.bsky.social

Preordered through my local bookstore. Should arrive in a week. Can't wait. Like a Cat Loves a Bird @drjamesbailey.bsky.social

@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton about his new book, The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art, which traces the history of human storytelling through eight great revolutions. #books #literature #stories @harpercollins.bsky.social

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to critic and author Adam Plunkett about his book, Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry, a major new biography that challenges our understanding of Frost's life and poetic legacy. #books #literature #poetry @fsgbooks.bsky.social

"'Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark,' comes at the reader slightly aslant, stealthy in its insights, lightweight in page-count, playfully acerbic, overly fond of cats." openlettersreview.com/posts/like-a...

“For the first time Benny realized properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city. Best friends from the age of ten, now they would go down different roads.” – Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends #botd #books #literature #novels

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both" – Robert Frost From the archives, in this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social revisits his conversation with Professor Bill Hogan on Robert Frost. #books #literature #poetry

Available now: Great Detective! An Adventure for Two People by Jacke Wilson, the host of the History of Literature Podcast. Visit press.historyofliterature.com for details. #books #literature @jackewilson.bsky.social

New on The History of Literature podcast: Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) and My Last Book with Nicholson Baker www.historyofliterature.com/800-shakespe... @holpod.bsky.social #Shakespeare

"Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.” – Jamaica Kincaid (b. May 25, 1949) #books #literature

In this episode from the archives, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Kenneth S. Sacks about what Emerson's wavering between self-reliance and collective action can tell us about who he was as a thinker and person. #botd #books @universitypress.cambridge.org

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Sarah Beckwith about her book Shakespeare and Loss: The Late, Great Tragedies, which looks at Shakespeare's use of protagonists who are driven out (or drive themselves out) of family and society. #books #shakespeare @cornellupress.bsky.social

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller #botd In this episode from the archives – @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Megan Marshall about her book, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. #books #transcendentalism @harpercollins.bsky.social

For more about Fuller and this novel, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Allison Pataki about her book Finding Margaret Fuller. #books #literature @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

For more about Marcus Aurelius, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author William O. Stephens about his book on the philosopher-king. #books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

From the archives: In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Mattias Boström about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #botd and his astonishing creation, Sherlock Holmes. #books #literature #fiction @groveatlantic.bsky.social

The rise of Artificial Intelligence has sent shockwaves through the literary world, with the impact being felt by both publishers and creative types. In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to writer and entrepreneur Eric Burgess about the rise of AI. #books #authorship #literature

For more about Dante #botd, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Joseph Luzzi about his book Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography. #books #literature @princetonupress.bsky.social

What did friendship mean to Dante #botd? In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social travels back to the Middle Ages with Elizabeth Coggeshall (On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy) to discuss how Dante and his contemporaries understood the concept of friendship. #books #literature

In the Human Comedy, Honoré de Balzac #botd, a pioneer of the great nineteenth-century "realism" tradition, presents a panoramic view of post-Napoleonic France. From the archives – @jackewilson.bsky.social discusses Balzac's life and works with novelist Carlos Allende. #books #literature #balzac

In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Kathleen Antonioli about her book Colette: A Critical Life, which tells the story of the life and legacy of literature's most artful self-creation. #books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social