136 The Kids Are All Right (Aren't They?) - Making the Case for Literature

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Why does literature matter? Why read at all? Jacke Wilson takes questions from high school students and attempts to make the case for literature. Works and authors discussed include Beloved, The Great Gatsby, Shakespeare, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, The Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, The Odyssey, The Inferno, The House on Mango Street, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Where the Red Fern Grows, Pride and Prejudice, Junot Diaz, Drown, Maya Angelou, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, J.K. Rowling, Paul Auster, Sara Gruen, Alice Sebold, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Isabel Allende, Ernest Hemingway, Martin Amis, Colson Whitehead, Edwidge Danticat, Ronica Dhar, David Sedaris, Jhumpa Lahiri, Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Vu Tran, Julia Alvarez, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Margot Livesey, Cristina Garcia, George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, James McBride, Shawna Yang Ryan, Charles Baxter, Nick Hornby, Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate . The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and Lit Hub Radio.
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0:35.4	Treatments will only be prescribed if deemed appropriate. You've been through one
0:40.9	diet after another and the weight still came back. You may think it's about willpower but really
0:46.1	it's about science. With Voie's weight loss program we combine medication with expert support
0:52.1	all tailored to your goals.
0:58.5	From Voie clinicians checking in on you to a personal coach keeping you motivated,
1:05.1	join 100,000 people seeing results with medication at joinvoy.com slash go.
1:07.8	Treatments will only be prescribed if deemed appropriate. Where the question asked, is our children learning?
1:15.6	As yesterday's positive report card shows, children do learn when standards are high and results are measured.
1:25.6	Children's do learn. are high and results are measured.
1:29.5	Children's do learn.
1:34.6	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
1:38.1	Welcome to the history of, oh, excuse me.
1:40.5	Oh, there's someone knocking at the studio door.
1:41.6	Hello.
1:43.2	Hello, I'm Oliver Twist.
1:43.7	Oliver. No, cool, please, sir. That's all I'm asking for. A. Hello, I'm Oliver Twist. Oliver. More gruel, please, sir.
1:45.3	That's all I'm asking for.
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