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759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham

12/18/2025 • 64 min

Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece The Godfather routinely tops lists of the greatest films ever made - and when it doesn't, it's often because its sequel, The Godfather II, has replaced it. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Karen Spence about her new book, The Companion Guide to the Godfather Trilogy: Betrayal, Loyalty, and Family. PLUS Elyse Graham (Book … Play episode

758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Sol…
757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)
756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | M…
755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with …
754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric…
753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | …
752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book wi…
751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book …
750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Caro…
749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark…
748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker …
747 Graphomaniac - The Story of a Horrible Russian Poet (with Ilya Vinitsk…
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…
743 Fairy Tales (with Jack Zipes) [RECLAIMED] | Crime and Punishment by Fy…
742 Edgar Allan Poe (with Richard Kopley) | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Au…
741 Gabriela Mistral
740 Mel Brooks and Other Eminent Jews (with David Denby) | War and Peace b…
739 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (#14 GBOAT) | Johannes Gutenberg (with Eric…
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 L…
735 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with …
734 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (#16 GBOAT) | 1925 - A Literar…
733 Haruki Murakami (with Mike Palindrome | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harpe…
732 The Bible (#18 GBOAT) | The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (with Kate Loveman…
731 The Brothers Karamazov Reclaimed (#19 Greatest Book of All Time)
730 "To Autumn" by John Keats | The Invention of Charlotte Brontë (with Gr…
729 Milton the Revolutionary (with Orlando Reade) | My Last Book with Jodi…
728 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (#20 GBOAT) | Lorrain…
727 Earthly Paradise in Old French Verse (with Jacob Abell) | My Last Book…
726 England vs France - A Literary Battle Royale (with Mike Palindrome) - …
725 The Trial by Franz Kafka (#21 GBOAT) | Edith Wharton and Patrick O'Bri…
724 The Stranger by Albert Camus (#22 Greatest Book of All Time) | Christo…
723 The Moral Rights of Authors (with Mira T Sundara Rajan) | My Last Book…
722 Kerouac's Road - A Conversation with Ebs Burnough, Director of a New K…
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 C…
719 "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Pali…
718 Jim - The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (with Shel…
717 Einstein and Kafka (with Ken Krimstein) | Dr Johnson Helps a Friend (a…
716 Icelandic Folk Legends (with Dagrun Osk Jonsdottir) | John le Carre at…
715 How Did George Eliot and the Victorians Respond to Climate Collapse? (…
714 The Real Charles Dickens (with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas) | Di…
713 The Odyssey (with Daniel Mendelsohn) | The History of Literature Podca…
712 Shakespeare's Greatest Love (with David Medina) | New Play About Shake…
711 How Does Literature Handle Atrocities? (with Bruce Robbins) | My Last …
710 Weird and Wonderful Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome (with Paul Ch…

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