Sept. 9, 2025
Jacke and Mike Palindrome in Conversation: Top 10 Animals in Literature
Revisit your favorite animals in literature by listening to an early appearance of Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, on the show. In January 2018, Mike joined Jacke for on the podcast to talk the Top 10 Animals in Literature. In the episode (Episode 128), Jacke and Mike conduct a draft, picking their favorite literary works with animals, big and small, that have enchanted or enraged or in some ways affected humanity. Works discussed include those by William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Roald Dahl, T.S. Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Ovid, William Blake, Beverly Cleary, and George Orwell, among many others. (Mike first joined Jacke in Episode 32, which was about Debut Novels.)
Episode 838: The Emerson Circle with Bruce Nichols
In Episode 838, Jacke talks to author Bruce Nichols about his new book The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World. They discuss how literary luminaries — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Al…
Twenty Shakespeare Episodes on the History of Literature Podcast
Spend time exploring the world of Shakespeare with host Jacke Wilson on the History of Literature Podcast! Here's a list of the twenty episodes on Shakespeare on the History of Literature Podcast. In these episodes, Jacke talks with eminent scholar…
