798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ramie Targoff

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799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert

Happy Mother's Day! Jacke takes advantage of an error to revisit a conversation with novelist Laurie Frankel about her book Enormous Wings, in which an unexpected pregnancy leads a seventy-seven-year-old woman to reflect on the meaning of motherhood. PLUS Edna Ferber's biographer ...  Show more

799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited)

As Jacke and Emma travel to England for the History of Literature Podcast Tour, they're revisiting some past interviews with special guests. In this episode, Jacke talks to the University of Oxford's Emma Smith about her book Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic ...  Show more

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