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The History of Literature Podcast
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A podcast for lovers of literature since 2015. Find us at historyofliterature.com.
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 14h
"The hope I hold
Nature herself with glee
Derides. And destiny
With evil goblin laughter indicates"
– John Cowper Powys, "The Hope"
#botd #booksky
Book cover. John Cowper Powys, Poems Book cover. John Cowper Powys. Wolf Solent: A Novel
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 15h
Ed Simon explores Americanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s work (and the abject horrors of being buried alive).
To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe
Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way…
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
10/7/38 Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes
Our #2 30s #Hitchcock: midcenturycinema.org/node/93
Munich accords signed the week before. Can't say Hitch didn't warn us
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Philip French: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
Geoffrey O’Brien: www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature for the 2025 National Book Awards.
Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Award…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 2d
"One may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun."
– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

#booksky #literature
738 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (#15 Greatest Book of All Time)
Emily Brontë only published one full-length book before dying at the tragically young age of 30. But that book, Wuthering Heights , which tells the story of obsessi…
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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 5d
Listen now: Gerri Kimber talks about Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 5d
"There was great age in them. They felt suddenly the distance they had come and the amount they had lived. They had a moment of cohesion, a moment of tragic affection and union, which drew them together like small jets of flame against all the senseless nihilism of life.” – #thomaswolfe #botd #books
Book cover. Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel, with introduction by Robert Morgan and Maxwell Perkins Photograph of Thomas Wolfe
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka, whose book A Kiss for the Absolute was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize by the @littranslate.bsky.social!

See the full list and learn more about this award here: hubs.ly/Q03LxNvY0.
A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, Translated by Mary Jo Bang Yuki Tanaka
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 6d
Celebrate Graham Greene's birthday with an episode from the HOL archives - In Episode 39, @jackewilson.bsky.social and Mike explore the life and works of #grahamgreene. #botd

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39 Graham Greene
Jacke and Mike reconsider the life and works of the great twentieth-century British novelist Graham Greene.  Works discussed include The End of the Affair, The Powe…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 6d
"He sat alone in the darkness, gazing at the dying fire, and seeing faces in it." – W.W. Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw"

#books #booksky #talesofhorror #october @jackewilson.bsky.social
737 "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
It's October! Jacke kicks off his favorite month with a classic tale of horror, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. Perhaps you know the general contours of the para…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 7d
“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
― Daniel J. Boorstin

#botd #history #booksky
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 8d
Join @jackewilson.bsky.social for an unforgettable, all-inclusive tour of London, Oxford, and Bath. We’ll enjoy rich literary conversations surrounded by historic landmarks and in the very places where great authors once walked and wrote. Tour dates: May 6-14, 2026. Sign up today! #literarytours
2026: London, Oxford, and Bath with Jacke Wilson
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 8d
“It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 9d
#Cervantes – through his masterpiece Don Quixote, he became the most celebrated and important figure in Spanish literature. #botd #books @jackewilson.bsky.social
329 Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a soldier, a civil servant, a playwright, and a poet. He was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner for almost five years. Later…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 9d
Elizabeth #Gaskell had only written one novel when Charles #Dickens started publishing her work in his journal Household Words. But soon she would become famous as the author of #Cranford and North and South, two of the best novels of the #Victorian era. #botd #booksky
407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell had only written one novel when Charles Dickens started publishing her work in his journal Household Words . But soon she would become famous as t…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 9d
Get a sampling of the many literary happenings of 1925 by starting with the conversation between @jackewilson.bsky.social and author Tom Lutz about his book 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia. #books #booksky @coriolisco.bsky.social
734 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (#16 GBOAT) | 1925 - A Literary Encyclopedia (with Tom Lutz)
Jacke talks to author Tom Lutz about 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia , which provides a fascinating window into a year when literature was arguably at its peak centra…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 9d
Join @jackewilson.bsky.social in his conversation with Christopher Herbert, author of Jane Austen's Favourite Brother, Henry. #books #booksky #janeausten @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
736 Jane Austen's Favorite Brother, Henry (with Christopher Herbert) | A Letter from the South of France | My Last Book with Nicholas Jenkins
Jane Austen had six brothers, but her older brother Henry was her favorite. Kind and witty, Henry has long been appreciated by Austen fans for his devotion to Jane …
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 12d
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?"
– TS Eliot, The Waste Land

For more about Eliot and The Waste Land, take a listen to the conversation between @jackewilson.bsky.social and author Jed Rasula.
#botd #booksky #poetry @princetonupress.bsky.social
467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
In 2022, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land turned 100 years old - and it's hard to imagine a poem with a more explosive impact or a more enduring influence. In this episo…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 12d
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

For more about the life and works of William Faulkner (b. Sept 25, 1897), listen to the discussion between @jackewilson.bsky.social and Carl Rollyson, biographer of #Faulkner. @uvapress.bsky.social #books
488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)
Jacke talks to "serial biographer" Carl Rollyson about his new two-volume biography of William Faulkner, The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12d
‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 12d
“The last and hardest lesson of The Chinese Tragedy of ‘King Lear’ is that surviving totalitarianism exacts a price in self-respect, even from the innocent.” —Catherine Nicholson
The Cares of State | Catherine Nicholson
The scholar Nan Z. Da reveals how naturally Chinese history can be read through the cruelty and corruption in King Lear.
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 12d
“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

In Episode 735, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks with author Mark Hussey about Woolf's beloved novel Mrs. Dalloway.

#books #booksky #virginiawoolf @manchesterup.bsky.social
735 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with Graham Watson
Jacke talks to author Mark Hussey ( Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel ) about Virginia Woolf's beloved novel Mrs Dalloway , which turned 100 earlier this year. PLU…
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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 22d
Curious about the life and work of Agatha Christie (b. September 15, 1890)? From the archives, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Gillian Gill about her biography of Agatha Christie. #agathachristie #mysteries #booksky
Agatha Christie (with Gillian Gill)
Agatha Christie is one of the most successful writers of all time - it's often said that sales of Christie's books are surpassed only by Shakespeare and the Bible. …
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 24d
New Medieval Books: Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/09/new-... #historybooks #Gutenberg
New Medieval Books: Johannes Gutenberg - Medievalists.net
This book explores the life and legacy of Johannes Gutenberg, the German craftsman credited with inventing movable type. It offers a nuanced perspective on his role in the history of printing while…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22d
‘Her style is so direct that it’s surprising how much it can hide. Biography seems to be an answer to a sense among some readers that Stein does not mean what she says, or that in some way we are being deceived.’

Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein, in the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain
We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...
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