345 Great Literary Centuries (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How's literature doing these days? Does the twenty-first century look as good for literature as the nineteenth did? How about the seventeenth? And the twentieth was no slouch... In this episode, Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, joins Jacke for a discussion of the Top 10 Greatest Literary Centuries, starting from the year 1000 and continuing to the present day. *** 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 Podglomerate Network and LitHub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, everyone.
0:11.4	My name is Jack Wilson, and I had a bad week.
0:15.6	I think it's okay to admit that, right?
0:17.9	Sometimes things just don't go our way.
0:20.6	And for those of you waiting for the end of the beast in the jungle story, we've been
0:25.4	looking at the last couple of weeks, we're going to postpone the ending because, frankly,
0:31.1	that story might have broken me, and I attempted it this week that would have been the final
0:36.6	straw.
0:37.6	I didn't need that beast jumping out at me and weighing me down.
0:42.5	My knee's buckling.
0:44.6	Not this week, beast.
0:47.2	Not this week, Satan.
0:49.2	Get behind me, but the good news is we have a great show.
0:52.5	We have two wonderful listener emails, one from Poland and one from Australia, those
0:58.0	lift my spirits, and then it's the return of Mike Palindrome, with probably the most
1:03.1	ill-conceived draft we've done yet.
1:05.5	Well, maybe I should say that there have been some clunkers in there over the years.
1:11.7	We drafted centuries in literature, starting with the year 1000.
1:18.2	How do you even begin with a subject like that?
1:21.8	We'll find out today, on the history of literature.
1:26.6	Okay, here we go.
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