Dostoevsky's Gambling Problem (featuring Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson)
The Goldberry Books Podcast
English - April 22, 2019 15:37 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture literature reading history literary poetry poets books book design authors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.
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