The History of Literature

639 Episodes

1. 526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt

   Published: 6/29/2023
2. 525 Don DeLillo (with Jesse Kavadlo)

   Published: 6/26/2023
3. 524 Growing Old with The Graduate - Mike Nichols, Roger Ebert, Charles Webb, and Me

   Published: 6/22/2023
4. 523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)

   Published: 6/19/2023
5. 522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino

   Published: 6/15/2023
6. 521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler

   Published: 6/12/2023
7. 520 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce

   Published: 6/8/2023
8. 519 Shakespeare's First Folio (with Emma Smith) | My Last Book with Luke Parker

   Published: 6/5/2023
9. 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

   Published: 6/1/2023
10. 517 The Marquis de Sade

    Published: 5/29/2023
11. 516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor)

    Published: 5/25/2023
12. 515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer

    Published: 5/22/2023
13. 514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer

    Published: 5/18/2023
14. 513 The Writers of Northern Ireland (with Alexander Poots) | My Last Book with Laura Lee

    Published: 5/15/2023
15. 512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with Scott Carter

    Published: 5/11/2023
16. 511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell

    Published: 5/8/2023
17. 510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2)

    Published: 5/4/2023
18. 509 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 1)

    Published: 5/1/2023
19. 508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris

    Published: 4/27/2023
20. 507 The Class of 1989 - A Special Year in Black Cinema (with Len Webb and Vincent Williams)

    Published: 4/24/2023