1. |
Episode 0 – Battling the Beast |
Oct. 10, 2015 |
2. |
1 The Epic of Gilgamesh |
Oct. 12, 2015 |
3. |
1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh |
Oct. 15, 2015 |
4. |
RM1 Comedy and Authority |
Oct. 19, 2015 |
5. |
RM2 Tolstoy’s Halloween [A Jacke Wilson Show Encore Episode] |
Oct. 22, 2015 |
6. |
2 The Hebrew Bible |
Oct. 26, 2015 |
7. |
2A The Book of Job |
Oct. 29, 2015 |
8. |
RM3 Power and the Law |
Nov. 2, 2015 |
9. |
RM4 Signs and Symbols |
Nov. 5, 2015 |
10. |
3 Homer |
Nov. 9, 2015 |
11. |
RM5 Gar Discovers a Lost Recording of Walt Whitman! |
Nov. 12, 2015 |
12. |
3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso |
Nov. 16, 2015 |
13. |
RM6 The Trial of Shrimp Boy |
Nov. 19, 2015 |
14. |
4 Sappho |
Nov. 23, 2015 |
15. |
RM7 Literature and Loneliness |
Nov. 25, 2015 |
16. |
5 Greek Tragedy (Part One) |
Nov. 30, 2015 |
17. |
RM8 My Inner Bleeping Bandit |
Dec. 3, 2015 |
18. |
6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides |
Dec. 7, 2015 |
19. |
RM9 Nietzsche’s Children |
Dec. 10, 2015 |
20. |
7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes |
Dec. 14, 2015 |
21. |
7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry |
Dec. 17, 2015 |
22. |
8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry) |
Dec. 21, 2015 |
23. |
A Jacke Wilson Holiday (RM10) |
Dec. 24, 2015 |
24. |
9 Confucius |
Jan. 4, 2016 |
25. |
10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast |
Jan. 7, 2016 |
26. |
11 The Upanishads (Part One) |
Jan. 11, 2016 |
27. |
27 The Upanishads (Part Two) |
Jan. 18, 2016 |
28. |
28 The Ramayana |
Jan. 25, 2016 |
29. |
29 Conspiracy! |
Feb. 1, 2016 |
30. |
30 More Conspiracy! |
Feb. 24, 2016 |
31. |
31 Secret Societies! |
March 1, 2016 |
32. |
32 The Best Debut Novels of All Time (A Conversation with the President of the Literature Supporters’ Club) |
March 3, 2016 |
33. |
33 – The Bhagavad Gita |
March 7, 2016 |
34. |
34 Borges and the Search for Meaning |
March 14, 2016 |
35. |
35 A Conversation with Ronica Dhar |
March 21, 2016 |
36. |
36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus) |
March 28, 2016 |
37. |
37 Literary Duos (Part One) |
April 11, 2016 |
38. |
38 Literary Duos (Part Two) |
April 18, 2016 |
39. |
39 Graham Greene |
April 25, 2016 |
40. |
40 Radha Vatsal, Author of “A Front Page Affair” |
May 2, 2016 |
41. |
41 The New Testament (with Professor Kyle Keefer) |
May 9, 2016 |
42. |
42 Was Prince a Poet? |
May 16, 2016 |
43. |
43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger) |
May 23, 2016 |
44. |
87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence |
April 7, 2017 |
45. |
Episode 0 – Battling the Beast |
Oct. 10, 2015 |
46. |
1 The Epic of Gilgamesh |
Oct. 12, 2015 |
47. |
1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh |
Oct. 15, 2015 |
48. |
2 The Hebrew Bible |
Oct. 26, 2015 |
49. |
2A The Book of Job |
Oct. 29, 2015 |
50. |
3 Homer |
Nov. 9, 2015 |
51. |
3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso |
Nov. 16, 2015 |
52. |
4 Sappho |
Nov. 23, 2015 |
53. |
5 Greek Tragedy (Part One) |
Nov. 30, 2015 |
54. |
6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides |
Dec. 7, 2015 |
55. |
7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes |
Dec. 14, 2015 |
56. |
7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry |
Dec. 17, 2015 |
57. |
8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry) |
Dec. 21, 2015 |
58. |
9 Confucius |
Jan. 4, 2016 |
59. |
10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast |
Jan. 7, 2016 |
60. |
11 The Upanishads (Part One) |
Jan. 11, 2016 |
61. |
27 The Upanishads (Part Two) |
Jan. 18, 2016 |
62. |
28 The Ramayana |
Jan. 25, 2016 |
63. |
44 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 1) |
May 30, 2016 |
64. |
45 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 2) |
June 6, 2016 |
65. |
46 Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty |
June 13, 2016 |
66. |
47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald |
June 20, 2016 |
67. |
48 Hamlet |
June 27, 2016 |
68. |
49 MFA Programs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
July 4, 2016 |
69. |
50 Othello |
July 11, 2016 |
70. |
51 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Person from Porlock – A Literary Mystery |
July 18, 2016 |
71. |
52 Recommend This! The Best 101 Books for College-Bound Readers |
July 29, 2016 |
72. |
53 Romeo and Juliet |
Aug. 5, 2016 |
73. |
54 The Greatest Books Ever (Part 2) |
Aug. 12, 2016 |
74. |
55 James Joyce (with Vincent O’Neill) |
Aug. 19, 2016 |
75. |
56 Shelley, HD, Yeats, Frost, Stevens – The Poetry of Ruins (with Professor Bill Hogan) |
Aug. 26, 2016 |
76. |
57 Borges, Munro, Davis, Barthelme – All About Short Stories (And Long Ones Too) |
Sept. 2, 2016 |
77. |
58 Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists (with Professor Paul Peppis) |
Sept. 9, 2016 |
78. |
59 Flannery O’Connor |
Sept. 16, 2016 |
79. |
60 Great Literary Endings |
Sept. 23, 2016 |
80. |
61 In the Mood for a Good Book – Wharton, Murakami, Chandler, and Fowles (with Vu Tran) |
Sept. 30, 2016 |
81. |
62 Bad Poetry |
Oct. 7, 2016 |
82. |
63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter) |
Oct. 14, 2016 |
83. |
64 Dorothy Parker |
Oct. 24, 2016 |
84. |
65 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler) |
Oct. 28, 2016 |
85. |
66 James Baldwin, Wallace Stegner, GB Tran, Lois Duncan (with author Shawna Yang Ryan) |
Nov. 4, 2016 |
86. |
67 Pascal’s Wager and an American Election |
Nov. 18, 2016 |
87. |
68 Listener Feedback and Thanksgiving Thoughts |
Nov. 23, 2016 |
88. |
69 Virginia Woolf and Her Enemies (with Professor Andrea Zemgulys) / Children’s Books |
Nov. 28, 2016 |
89. |
70 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar |
Dec. 5, 2016 |
90. |
71 Did Bob Dylan Deserve the Nobel Prize? |
Dec. 12, 2016 |
91. |
72 The Best Christmas Stories in Literature |
Dec. 19, 2016 |
92. |
73 Javier Marias and the Philosophical Novel |
Dec. 27, 2016 |
93. |
74 Great First Chapters (with Vu Tran) |
Jan. 1, 2017 |
94. |
75 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki |
Jan. 11, 2017 |
95. |
76 Darkness and the Power of Literature – The Forbidden Stories of North Korea (with Terry Hong) |
Jan. 18, 2017 |
96. |
77 Top 10 Literary Cities |
Jan. 27, 2017 |
97. |
78 Jane Eyre, The Good Soldier, Giovanni’s Room (with Margot Livesey) |
Feb. 3, 2017 |
98. |
79 Music That Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
Feb. 10, 2017 |
99. |
80 Power Play! Shakespeare’s Henry V |
Feb. 17, 2017 |
100. |
81 Faust (aka The Devil Went Down to Germany) |
Feb. 24, 2017 |
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