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 812: Mary Beard on the Classics
Why are we so fascinated by the ancient world? What can we find in the distant past that is recognizably human — and how do we grapple with the complicated and controversial issues that the past forces us to address? In Episode 812, Jac…
Episode 811: The Harlem Renaissance
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 t…
