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Welcome to our fifth episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises ! On today’s show, we welcome the always excellent David Wyatt to explore the way Hemingway represents “thinking” in the novel. Although...

Join us for the second of three installments of One True Book Club ’26! In this series of episodes, we are reading the Hemingway-relevant selection, Under Fire by Henri Barbusse, the classic French WWI novel published...

In this episode, we welcome Julia Cooke to discuss her new book, Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World , which profiles three pioneering women journalists: Rebecca West, Emily...

<p>One True Podcast does its part to help your summer reading lists by covering a book that is not by Hemingway, but is Hemingway-relevant: Henri Barbusse’s Under Fire, the 1916 World War I novel that Frederic Henry and...

<p>Live from the University of Evansville campus and the Shanklin Theatre, where Rami Malek once trod the boards… </p><p>One True Podcast welcomes Alex Vernon for an interview recorded live in front of a captive...

<p>In our fourth episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we examine the theme of religion and its role in the novel.</p><p>From the title, the epigraphs, the pilgrims on the train, Jake’s self-conscious...

<p>Legendary scholar Jackson Bryer joins us once again, this time to discuss one controversial moment in Hemingway’s career, his vicious “poor Scott Fitzgerald” swipe in the original publication of “The Snows of...

<p>In the midst of our centenary festivities around The Sun Also Rises, One True Podcast takes an opportunity to celebrate another Hemingway work published in 1926: The Torrents of Spring. </p><p>Elena Zolotariov...

<p>In our third episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we examine the novel’s anti-Semitic streak and the central role of its Jewish character, Robert Cohn.</p><p>We welcome the scholar Jeremy Kaye of...

<p>On the happy occasion of the publication of Francesca Wade’s magnificent Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, we speak with the biographer about Stein’s life, work, and complicated relationships.</p><p>Wade describes her...

<p>In our second episode devoted to the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we turn our focus to the beloved Count Mippipopolous. </p><p>He’s an epicurean and an entrepreneur; he’s battle-tested, arrow-wounded...

<p>We are thrilled to welcome Susan Shillinglaw, the preeminent John Steinbeck scholar, to discuss one of Hemingway’s contemporaries and fellow Nobel laureates. </p><p>Although Hemingway and Steinbeck are not discussed...

<p>Throughout the course of this year, we will celebrate the centenary of The Sun Also Rises by inviting guests on the show to talk about fascinating aspects of the book and its rich history. </p><p>In this episode, we...

<p>One True Podcast is back with a look at another Hemingway short story, an under-discussed gem from Winner Take Nothing. One of the weirdest works in his career, “Homage to Switzerland” is a Modernist experiment that...

<p>Happy New Year from One True Podcast! We look forward to a rich, exciting 2026 by looking back to 1926.</p><p>In our first show of the year, we ask an esteemed guest to take us back exactly one hundred years to see...