841 Caribbean Romanticism (with Kir Kuiken) | My Last Book with Jonathan Gross

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840 A History of the Romance Novel (with Dale DeBakcsy)

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839 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with David Medina

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838 The Emerson Circle (with Bruce Nichols) | Life Hack! Could This Simple Trick Help You Read More?

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837 Ghost Month (with Simon Wroe) | Madness and Murder - The Story of Charles and Mary Lamb

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836 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (with Robin Waterfield and John Sellars) | My Last Book with Daniel Olivas

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835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My Last Book with Nicholas Boggs

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834 Shakespeare's Scholars (with Sean Keilen) | My Last Book with Nan Z. Da

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833 Galahad and the Grail (with Malcolm Guite)

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832 Stendhal [Revisited]

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831 Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (with Rachel Pastan) | My Last Book with David Denby

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830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A Literary Tribute to Dolly Parton

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829 Charlotte Brontë and Her Biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (with Susan Dunne) | My Last Book with Travis Franks | The Odyssey Kerfuffle

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828 Confucius (with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) | Celia Bookshop! (with Rachel Pastan) | Jacke in Taiwan

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827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare

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826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washington Irving and Other "Minor Writers" | Notes from the History of Literature Podcast Tour!

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825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley

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824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The Claire Clairmont Story (with Emily Franklin) | My Last Book with Mathelinda Nabugodi

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823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)

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822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | My Last Book with Douglas Clark

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821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) | Wonderland Books! (with Amy Joyce and Gayle Weiswasser)

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820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Sonja Tiernan)

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819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of HOT Literati | My Last Book with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

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818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon

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817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard

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816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel Mendelsohn

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815 Paddy Chayefsky

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814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Ghose

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813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli

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812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence

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811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey

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810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)

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809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Paling Funk)

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808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible"

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807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky and James H McGavran III

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806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan

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805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]

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804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea

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803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Book with Mark Hussey

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802 Colette (with Kathleen Antonioli) | My Last Book with Colombe Schneck

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801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)

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800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker

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799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilbert

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799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited)

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798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ramie Targoff

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798 Emma Smith and Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (Revisited)

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797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited)

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796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited)

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795 Will Tosh and Queer Shakespeare (Revisited)

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794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with Gerri Kimber

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793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with Peter Budrin) | My Last Book with Edward Watts

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792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sperry) | My Last Book with Bruce Gordon

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791 Emilia Lanier (a.k.a Aemilia Bassano Lanyer) Revisited

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790 Madness and Myth (with Natasha Joukovsky) | My Last Book with Kimberly Lau

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789 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Cass Sunstein

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788 John Ruskin (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Francesca Wade

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787 Why Poetry with Matthew Zapruder Encore

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786 Cherokee Novelist and Poet John Rollin Ridge (with Travis Franks)

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785 Literature in an Age of Anti-Immigration Sentiment (with Daniel Olivas) | My Last Book with Janet Todd

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784 Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King (with William O. Stephens)

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783 Southern Imagining (with Elleke Boehmer) | My Last Book with John McMurtrie

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782 Consent in the Regency Novel (with Zoë McGee)

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781 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings | My Last Book with Rhodri Lewis

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780 Chekhov on Writing (with Bob Blaisdell)

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779 Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises (with Mike Palindrome) RECLAIMED

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778 A History of Aphorisms (with James Geary) | My Last Book with Paul Chrystal

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777 T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" | "The Story of the Marquis de Cressy" by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (with Kate Deimling)

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776 Mary Shelley in Bath (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with D.G. Hampton

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775 Celebrity Authorship in the Nineteenth Century (with Sarah Allison) | My Last Book with Emily Van Duyne

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774 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Leo Damrosch)

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773 The Films of Rob Reiner (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with Matt Abrahams

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772 Thucydides and The History of the Peloponnesian War (with Polly Low and Robin Waterfield) | My Last Book with James West

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771 Shakespeare and the Generation of Genius - The Role of Performing Arts in education (with Robin Lithgow) - RECLAIMED

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770 Shakespeare and Civility (with Indira Ghose) | Robert W. Service and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

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769 The European Byron (with Jonathan Gross) | The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (#3 GBOAT)

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768 Young James Baldwin (with Nicholas Boggs) | My Last Book with Bruce Robbins

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767 A Black Woman in the Romantic Archive (with Mathelinda Nabugodi) | My Last Book with Richard Kopley

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766 Gertrude Stein (with Francesca Wade) | Ruskin on the Only One Way to Get Art | My Last Book with Holly Baggett

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765 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with Mike Palindrome)

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764 Two Thousand Years of Roman History (with Edward J. Watts) | My Last Book with Nathan Hensley

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763 Emily's Desk Drawer

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762 The History of the Sonnet

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761 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell) | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#4 Greatest Book of All Time)

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760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge

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759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham

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758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (#5 Greatest Book of All Time)

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757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)

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756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | My Last Book with Jake Poller

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755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

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754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric White

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753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | Giving Thanks | My Last Book with Eve Dunbar

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752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book with Keith Cooper

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751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book with Sharmila Sen

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750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Carol Oates vs the Trillionaire | My Last Book with Ken Krimstein

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749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark) | #7 Greatest Book of All Time

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748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker Who Burgled Him | My Last Book with Emerson Expert Kenneth Sacks

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747 Graphomaniac - The Story of a Horrible Russian Poet (with Ilya Vinitsky and James H. McGavran III | My Last Book with Stephanie Sandler | #8 Greatest Book of All Time

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746 Wild Jane Austen (with Devoney Looser) | #9 Greatest Book of All Time

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745 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (Halloween Fun-Size Edition)

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744 Love, Sex, and Frankenstein (with Caroline Lea) | #10 Greatest Book of All Time | My Last Book with Geoffrey Turnovsky | A Letter from a Middle School Teacher and Mom

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841 Caribbean Romanticism (with Kir Kuiken) | My Last Book with Jonathan Gross

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840 A History of the Romance Novel (with Dale DeBakcsy)

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839 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with David Medina

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838 The Emerson Circle (with Bruce Nichols) | Life Hack! Could This Simple Trick Help You Read More?

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837 Ghost Month (with Simon Wroe) | Madness and Murder - The Story of Charles and Mary Lamb

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836 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (with Robin Waterfield and John Sellars) | My Last Book with Daniel Olivas

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835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My Last Book with Nicholas Boggs

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834 Shakespeare's Scholars (with Sean Keilen) | My Last Book with Nan Z. Da

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833 Galahad and the Grail (with Malcolm Guite)

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832 Stendhal [Revisited]

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831 Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (with Rachel Pastan) | My Last Book with David Denby

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830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A Literary Tribute to Dolly Parton

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829 Charlotte Brontë and Her Biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (with Susan Dunne) | My Last Book with Travis Franks | The Odyssey Kerfuffle

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828 Confucius (with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) | Celia Bookshop! (with Rachel Pastan) | Jacke in Taiwan

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827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare

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826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washington Irving and Other "Minor Writers" | Notes from the History of Literature Podcast Tour!

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825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley

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824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The Claire Clairmont Story (with Emily Franklin) | My Last Book with Mathelinda Nabugodi

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823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)

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822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | My Last Book with Douglas Clark

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821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) | Wonderland Books! (with Amy Joyce and Gayle Weiswasser)

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820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Sonja Tiernan)

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819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of HOT Literati | My Last Book with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

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818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon

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817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard

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816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel Mendelsohn

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815 Paddy Chayefsky

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814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Ghose

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813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli

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812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence

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811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey

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810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)

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809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Paling Funk)

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808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible"

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807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky and James H McGavran III

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806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan

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805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]

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804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea

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803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Book with Mark Hussey