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Libromania #13: Dostoevsky's Gambling Problem (featuring Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson)
Libromania #13: Dostoevsky's Gambling Problem (featuring Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson)
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Welcome to Libromania, a podcast for the book-obsessed from the Close Reads Podcast Network. Each week David Kern will be chatting with authors, biographers, designers, collectors, critics and other people who help make book's so worthy of our attention.In this episode David chats with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, author of Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoesvsky, and the Search for Influence (among other books), about Dostoevsky's gambling problem and the impact that it had on his life and his work. They talk about the way he was an open book as a writer, the role of his second wife, Anna, and his seemingly autobiographical novel, The Gambler.Remember: subscribe to Libromania wherever you get podcasts.
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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