283 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Top 10 Literary Modes of Transportation

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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From the dramatic trains of Anna Karenina to the wide-open roads of Jack Kerouac, getting around has always played a central role in literature. But not all means of transportation are equal! In this lighthearted episode of the History of Literature, Jacke and Mike attempt to determine the most literary forms of transportation. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. 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 Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello everyone. This is Jack Wilson coming to you in the midst of the
0:18.8	holiday season here in America a week or so from Thanksgiving, six weeks until Christmas.
0:25.0	Halloween has come and gone, like birthdays and back to school weeks and everything else this
0:31.0	year.
0:32.0	And the pandemic and the quarantine have made them all a little more isolating.
0:37.1	A little more isolating a lot more isolating.
0:41.4	Devastating loneliness has said in,
0:44.0	I hope you are all okay.
0:47.0	We are going to make it through, dear listeners,
0:49.0	but for now I am feeling the long haul of illness and the spread of disease and not being able to escape.
0:56.3	So one of the ways we manage as we wait for a vaccine or some kind of relief is to imagine better days, better days in the past and
1:06.0	better days in the future. Maybe this is why Mike and I are turning to literature and
1:10.8	why in particular our minds have turned to travel.
1:15.7	Traveling is such a huge part of my life, the feeling of being on the open road,
1:21.3	the feeling of going from point A to point B, meeting new people, experiencing new things,
1:27.0	and even just the daily routine of travel, the grind, the commuter train, the frequent achella.C. to New York.
1:35.0	All that is gone.
1:37.0	Now I go out once a week to make sure the car battery doesn't die.
1:41.0	And already I missed so many weeks at one stretch that the battery did die and I had to drag out the
1:47.0	jumper cables to start it up.
1:49.0	Which always makes me feel like kind of a guy's guy.
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