The History of Literature

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684 The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)

3/6/2025 • 89 min

What happens when a respected church leader shows up one day wearing a mysterious veil that conceals his eyes, offering no explanation - and keeps wearing it for decades? How will the community respond? What conspiracy theories will they develop? And how will an author like Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing a hundred years later, spin a New England sin-and-guilt anec… Play episode

683 Marianne Moore (with Cristanne Miller)
682 The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (with Farah Jasmine G…
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 Wate…
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 Discove…
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 Jon…
671 Shakespeare's Tragic Art (with Rhodri Lewis) | My Last Book with Joel …
670 The Parable
669 Obsessed with Melville (with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder) | My …
668 Book and Dagger - The Scholars and Librarians Who Became Spies and Fou…
667 Sui Sin Far (with Victoria Namkung) | My Last Book with Samantha Rose …
666 "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Palindrome) | My Las…
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 Se…
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 McMurt…
657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele P…
656 Novelist Chigozie Obioma on Literature, Life, and His Love for Kazuo I…
655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last B…
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 E…
651 Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey | The Heroine's Labyrinth (with…
650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi)
649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Reco…
648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book …
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 …
642 Theater and Democracy (with James Shapiro)
641 Blood, Guts, and Books - Inside the Medieval Scriptorium (with Sara Ch…
640 Chaucer the Merry Bard (with Mary Flannery)
639 Immersed in Print (with Geoffrey Turnovsky) | My Last Book with Liz Ro…
638 Thomas Mann
637 From the Archives - Heart of Darkness (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last…
636 Emily Dickinson's Letters (with Cristanne Miller)
635 Darwin and Cataclysmic Change (with Allen MacDuffie) | My Last Book wi…

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