Hi patrons! This week, Alex, Grace and I go through Henry James' 1879 biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (how James' biography is more about James). Sensitive and insecure America and listen to an unabridged reading of Hawthorne's 1835 short story, 'Wakefield' about a man who leaves his wife without explanation only to live nearby and watch her for decades.

Sources:

McCall, Dan. "Henry James's Hawthorne." New England Review (1990-) 18, no. 4 (1997): 111-18.

Matthew Peters; "Henry James's Hawthorne," The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 305–317

"Hawthorne" by Henry James, narrated by Flo Gibson

'Wakefield' in Twice-Told Tales by Hawthorne on Librivox. https://librivox.org/twice-told-tales-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/