Get Lit Podcast

Can you guys please do Tolstoy? I’m reading death of Ivan Ilyich in 5 weeks and I want to know a little more about him. Thanks for doing him!!! Just wondering…thoughts about doing Joseph Conrad??

I returned from NYC to my home in Chicago with a rich curiosity about the history of Broadway. I toured “Ten Chimneys,” the Wisconsin country home of Alfred Lunt and Joan Fontanne and took note of several adoring portraits of Noël Coward with Lunt and Fontanne. It was apparent that he was a frequent guest and perhaps a lover… unsubstantiated but Coward wrote “Design For Living” for the trio that likely had some bearing in reality. Jon’s City Lit bio of Coward was just what I hoped to find. It helped uncover the queer sensibility of the storied writer. Thank you!

It’s such a gentle and charismatic introduction to an era of literature in which I never feel welcomed. So grateful for such a passionate pair of artists.

Great bio on Eudora Welty, but there were a couple of facts that got mixed up in the podcast: 1) Her house is a museum but she donated it to the Mississippi Department of Archives & History (not the State Conservation Society) along with all of her correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs which can also be viewed on MDAH’s website in the Digital Archives. It is one of the world’s largest most intact literary collections in an archive; 2) in The Optimist’s Daughter, Laurel actually visits both New Orleans and Mississippi from Chicago. Just wanted to point that out for others who are interested!