The History of Literature

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693 Understanding the Wonders of Nature (with Alan Lightman) | My Last Book with Ala…

4/7/2025 • 60 min

In today's world of specialization, Alan Lightman is that rare individual who has accomplished remarkable things in two very different realms. As a physicist with a Ph.D. from Cal Tech, he's taught at Harvard and MIT and advised the United Nations. As a novelist, he's written award-winning bestsellers like Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis. In this episode, J… Play episode

692 An Investigation in Chinatown (with Radha Vatsal) | The Five Books (wi…
691 The Making of Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson) | My Last Book with Ch…
690 Coleridge and the Person from Porlock [Ad-Free]
689 Thomas Kyd (with Brian Vickers) | My Last Book with Jonathan D.S. Schr…
688 Georges Simenon
687 Gatsby Turns 100 (with James West)
686 Russian Poetry After the Cold War (with Stephanie Sandler)
685 Charles Chesnutt (with Tess Chakkalakal) | My Last Book with John Good…
684 The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)
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)

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