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Hello, a new year, a new you, and some new conversations today on the history of literature.

Okay, hello, hello, hello, it's a brand new year and we are off and running.

I'm sure many of you are looking to make a change, a new you, or at least a slightly new you. We all have improvements to make, don't we?

Resolutions. Maybe yours is to read a bit more and maybe that's why you're here. Our traffic always spikes in January and I think

if it is as the same as the gym being more crowded. We let things lapse a bit of around the holidays, whether that's calorie counting or exercise or mental stimulus.

And then it's January, we head with eagerness to the fitness center, we swap out sweets for salads,

and we put a little mental nutrition into our ears.

Well, you've come to the right place.

We will have many, many great episodes for you this year on the history of literature.

We're going to play some hits.

William Wordsworth, the venerable bead, Margaret Cavendish, Henry David Thoreau, and that's just January and just a part of January.

I'm Jack Wilson, by the way, your host, and I'm enjoying my new year spending some time with the family, and so we've got something a little on the lighter side today.

A couple of podcasts to recommend, we'll be talking to the hosts of those podcasts, and both of these are very suitable for the new year.

One of them is all about books like this podcast and the other is all about travel.

If there's anything that goes on my list of resolutions, it's to do more of both.

Gotta read more and gotta get out there and see more of the world. And when I'm at home or on that treadmill or running those errands, I can at least do the next best thing, which is to get ready to stimulate my mind with some good conversations.

So let's start with the podcast missing pages.

We've talked with the host before, Beth Ann Patrick,

aka the Bookmaven, who presides over that show missing pages you know you people know this

about me I think that I've I've talked about this I have kind of a 50 year policy here at the history of literature.

We will dip into contemporary literature now and then, but for the most part I like to study the past.

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