You Don’t Know Lit

202. Famous Feuds 06.05.2024 53:52 ↓

Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books by Richard Bradford (2014) VS Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland  by Patrick Radden Keefe (2019) 

201. Unputdownable (RERUN) 29.04.2024 1:00:11 ↓

Basking in our 200th episode for one more week as we take this week off. Throwing it back to our first episode with Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) VS The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1937).

200. Tolkien Archivist William Fliss 22.04.2024 53:39 ↓

We're joined by William Fliss - Marquette University's Tolkien Archivist and co-curator for the exhibition J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette’s campus. Marquette owns the manuscripts for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham, and Mr. Bliss as well as research collections totaling over 11,000 pages.

Ep 199: Books by Billionaires 15.04.2024 54:03 ↓

The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel by MacKenzie Scott (2005) VS Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton (1992)

198. Self Help II 08.04.2024 30:57 ↓

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (2021)

197. Self Help Books I 01.04.2024 39:44 ↓

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)

196. Dystopian Shorts 25.03.2024 48:49 ↓

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973) VS The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (1909)

195. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 18.03.2024 34:01 ↓

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)

194. Fictional Autobiographies 11.03.2024 59:45 ↓

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (2016) VS The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

193. Women's History Month 04.03.2024 25:55 ↓

Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)

192. Child Authors 26.02.2024 31:37 ↓

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (1976)

191. Corporate Drama 19.02.2024 51:57 ↓

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010) VS DisneyWar by James B. Stewart (2005)

190. Arizona 12.02.2024 50:25 ↓

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1912) VS The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1975)

189. Public Domain II 05.02.2024 25:37 ↓

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1928)

188. Best Books of 2023 29.01.2024 54:27 ↓

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland (2023) VS A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (2023)

187. 2024 Public Domain I 22.01.2024 31:39 ↓

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (1928)

186. Debunked Books 15.01.2024 53:57 ↓

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2003) VS Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

185. Tender is the Flesh 08.01.2024 36:07 ↓

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (2017)

184. Joyce Carol Oates 02.01.2024 49:30 ↓

Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates (1985) vs Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates (2001)

183. Letters from Father Christmas 25.12.2023 23:15 ↓

The Father Christmas Letters by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1976)

182. The Art Thief 19.12.2023 33:18 ↓

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finke (2023)

181. The Woman in Me 11.12.2023 28:28 ↓

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (2023)

180. Louisa May Alcott 05.12.2023 50:47 ↓

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott (1863) VS Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

179. Napoleon 27.11.2023 57:47 ↓

Talleyrand by Alfred Duff Cooper (1935) VS Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (1969)

178. Perfect Adaptations 20.11.2023 45:41 ↓

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (2001) VS Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)