441 When Novels Were Novel (with Jason Feifer)

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811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey

The Harlem Renaissance, the great flowering of African American arts and culture in the early twentieth century, is hard to define but easy to admire. Coupled with the Great Migration, in which hundreds of thousands of Southern black workers moved to the rapidly industrializing c ...  Show more

810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is widely regarded as one of the greatest short story writers in history. Among his admirers were Flaubert, who befriended and mentored the younger writer, and later masters of the form like Joyce and Chekhov, who were both deeply influenced by Maupa ...  Show more

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