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Series

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10 Pieces

Dead Writers takes listeners inside famous American authors’ homes. Riffing on literature, history, home décor, gardens, and ghosts, hosts Tess Chakkalakal and Brock Clarke bring great American writers, and the books they wrote, back from the dead.


Latest Pieces

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Tess and Brock dive into the unconventional life of Sarah Orne Jewett by first venturing to Berwick Academy, the school that Jewett attended. As an...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:31
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Tess and Brock explore Nathanial Hawthorne’s childhood home in Raymond, Maine. Hawthorne’s writing colors the house as an idyllic childhood summer ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
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Tess and Brock travel to Wiscasset, ME, to investigate the scene of James Weldon Johnson’s tragic death in a train accident. Author Russell Rymer g...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:14
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Tess and Brock put the spotlight on Edna St. Vincent Millay, the 20th century poet and feminist icon. Millay was notorious for her active “social l...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:24
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Tess and Brock try to get on the same wavelength as Edwin Arlington Robinson, also known as EAR, by visiting his birthplace in Gardiner, ME. To get...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:08
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Tess and Brock get to know Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow, the so-called hometown poet of Portland, ME. To find out whether Longfellow’s fame is justif...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:58
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Tess and Brock stay close to home while studying Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century author famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Susanna Aston...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
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30 second promo for episode 3 of Dead Writers

  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: :31
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30 second promo for episode 2 of Dead Writers.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: :31
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30 second generic promo for Dead Writers.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: :30