BooksInsideBooks

Every book contains other books.

When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, her creature found Paradise Lost in the woods and read it as the story of his own creation. When T.S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land, he buried references to Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible in almost every line. When James Joyce wrote Ulysses, he rewrote Homer's entire Odyssey in a single Dublin day.

Books Inside Books traces those hidden connections. Each episode takes one literary reference, a book mentioned inside another book, and unpacks exactly why it's there. What it meant to the author. What it does to the story. What it tells us about the conversation that literature has been having with itself for centuries.

No academic background required. Just curiosity.

New episodes every Wednesday.