37 Literary Duos (Part One)
The History of Literature
Shownotes Transcript
What makes a great literary duo? Two authors inspiring one another? Two characters who fall in love? Best friends? Rivals? Host Jacke Wilson is joined by the President of the Literature of the Supporters Club to discuss. Jacke and Mike also respond to a listener question about building a World Literature syllabus. But first, Jacke draws upon some listener feedback to take a look at the condition America’s condition is in. What kind of country gives a goldfish plastic surgery?
This episode is dedicated to a certain special someone. Thank you, Mr. Hot Wing.
Works Discussed:
The Life of Samuel Johnson) by James Boswell
Moon Palace) by Paul Auster
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights) by Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children) by Salman Rushdie
The House of the Spirits) by Isabel Allende
Blow-Up and Other Stories) by Julio Cortazar
One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Days of Abandonment) by Elena Ferrante
The Neopolitan Novels) by Elena Ferrante
Zadig) by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales) by Chaucer
The Decameron) by Boccaccio
Orientalism) by Edward Said
Kafka on the Shore) by Haruki Murakami
“The Thousand and One Nights”) by Jorge Luis Borges
Tender Is the Night) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading Lolita in Tehran) by Azar Nafisi
Haroun and the Sea of Stories) by Salman Rushdie
“The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Sheherezade”) by Edgar Allen Poe
The Adventures of Augie March) by Saul Bellow
The Aubrey-Maturin Series) by Patrick O’Brian
Pride and Prejudice) by Jane Austen
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Music Credits:
“Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba)” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive) / CC by SA)).
“Sweeter Vermouth” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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