It’s a literary feast! National bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow joins Jacke for a discussion of her novel So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix, in which four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War. PLUS playwright Scott Carter, author of Discord: The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy, returns to the podcast to tell Jacke about Jefferson’s efforts to write a new version of the New Testament. Enjoy!
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I have just discovered your podcast and enjoyed your conversation about Roth very much. I read mostly non fiction in my life and came late to literature. Are there podcasts or books you’d recommend to the novice literature reader?
I have enjoyed the work of Howard Norman. Have you read his work?
Lol, I feel like that’s what I’ve been doing in these episodes for the past five years! Hopefully the literature recommendations have helped along the way…