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.)
#8 Greatest Book of All Time
There is a lot to praise about Herman Melville's Moby Dick, which comes in at #8 on the History of Literature's list of 25 Greatest Books of All Time. In Episode 747, Jacke considers this tale that is so much more than a story about a whale. Eager t…
#9 Greatest Book of All Time
In the History of Literature's list of the 25 Greatest Books of All Time, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes comes in at #9. In Episode 746, Jacke makes the case for the enduring delight of Don Quixote, which Harold Bloom called the first modern nov…
