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HIATUS ENCORE: Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this encore presentation, we’re reviving a literary suicide scandal that took place among some of the biggest names in the West Coast’s early 20th century bohemian societ
HIATUS ENCORE: Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years. Le Sueur used the intervening decades t
HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) What if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that also has shades of Middlemarch and The Great Gatsby?
HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Woman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia. We're join
Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Else Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 1909 publication, the novel was banned by the Nazis
Edna O'Brien — The Country Girls with Edan Lepucki
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) When Edna O’Brien published her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, she was branded a “Jezebel” in her native Ireland—but that didn’t stop her from completing a poignant
Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) If Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz drifting from a smoky cafe, the hum of a V
Jessie Redmon Fauset — Plum Bun with Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Langston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Crisis magazine from 1919 until 1926, Fauset
E.D.E.N. Southworth — The Hidden Hand with Rose Neal
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Dastardly villains are no match for Capitola Black, the audacious heroine at the center of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s 1859 bestseller, The Hidden Hand. Readers so admired this li
ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be the novel everyone’s talking about this month, but let’s not forget another “Jazz Age” novel that took this country by storm. U
Angela Carter — The Bloody Chamber
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not the heroines from Angela Carter’s 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. The British author tackles dark, primal themes in her
Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) When Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a real-life Robinson Crusoe on a remote tropical island, she embarked on an enthralling—and at times harrowi
Penning Patriotism — Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) The recent hatching of baby eaglets in Big Bear, CA has Amy thinking a lot about patriotism and what it actually means in turbulent times for our country. Lost lady of lit K
Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have b
Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) How do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers an ostensible how-to manual in the witty didactic
Katharine S. White — Shaping The New Yorker, with Amy Reading
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) One hundred years ago this week, The New Yorker published its first issue. A few months later, the magazine’s first (and for decades, only) female editor joined the staff. K
Literary Jewelry with Leigh Batnick Plessner
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) January was dismal, but we’re distracting ourselves with something shiny in this first new full-length episode of the year. Catbird Chief Creative Officer Leigh Batnick Ples
Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) If you’re drawn to the hefty tomes of Victorian authors Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, we can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy this week’s novel, Hester, as much as we
Hiatus Replay: Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this week's hiatus replay, we’re focusing on one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and playwrights, Laryssa Kosach, who wrote under the pen name Lesya Ukrainka. Her play The
Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Novelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes. In a New York Times r
Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native A
Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Charmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti followed suit nearly a decade later with her own ch
Margaret Drabble — The Millstone with Carrie Mullins
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Margaret Drabble’s 1965 novel The Millstone offers a nuanced portrayal of single motherhood in 1960s London. Author Carrie Mullins, whose 2024 nonfiction work The Book of Mo
Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the late 19th-century, and her lengthy career
Sanora Babb — Whose Names Are Unknown with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Growing up on the Great Plains and witnessing the struggles of migrant workers in California made Sanora Babb uniquely qualified to write the story of the Dust Bowl. Her nov
Eliza Haywood — The Female Spectator and Betsy Thoughtless with Kelly J. Plante
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Details of Eliza Haywood’s life may be murky today, but in the early 18th century, she was a literary force—writing plays and bestselling novels, editing periodicals, and ru
Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Long before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored th
HIATUS ENCORE: M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) HIATUS ENCORE: Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, joins us to discuss Fisher and her World War II-era
Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) As Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report the truth and speak truth to power. The Nazis dubbed
HIATUS ENCORE: Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) HIATUS ENCORE: Sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porters’ books took Regency-era England by storm just a few years ahead of Jane Austen, and their lives were chock-full of fascina
