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Hiatus Encore: The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) HIATUS ENCORE: Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet were it not for a renewed push by author Alice Walk
HIATUS ENCORE: Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Did you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts, a tawdrier and not-for-children “shadow twin” that was pu
Ann Schlee (Rhine Journey) with Sam Johnson-Schlee and Lucy Scholes
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Pack your steamer trunks! We’re traveling to 19th-century Bavaria this week by way of Ann Schlee’s 1980 historical novel Rhine Journey, newly republished by McNally Editions
Miles Franklin (My Brilliant Career)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) An Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — capture Kim and Amy’s fancy this week on the show. Published in 1901 and written when author Miles Franklin
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, Lost Lady of Translation — with Jo Salas
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) You may think you’ve never read anything by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, but if you’ve read any Thomas Mann, there’s a good chance you’ve seen her handiwork. Lowe-Porter was a w
Elaine May — Miss May Does Not Exist with Carrie Courogen
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Guest Carrie Courogen, author of the acclaimed new bio "Miss May Does Not Exist," joins us to discuss comic genius Elaine May. Known for her groundbreaking work in comedy, s
Kim and Amy Catch Their Book Breath
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this special catch-up episode, we take a breather to share updates and insights from our recent reads, including works by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Radclyffe Hall. Amy i
Barbara Comyns — Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet’s Daughter with Avril Horner
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Barbara Comyns was recently called, “the best English novelist you’ve never heard of” and her unsettling gothic novels are equal parts enchanting and horrific. Joining us is
Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Dying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gained brief recognition when the book was
Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blackliste
Speranza, a.k.a Oscar Wilde’s Mom
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this week’s episode Kim and Amy discuss the life and work of “Speranza,” a.k.a Lady Jane Wilde, a.k.a. Oscar Wilde’s mom! An outspoken, rabble-rousing poet who championed
Whose Line is it Anyway? Elizabeth Taylor vs. Elizabeth Taylor
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us for a lightning-round quiz pitting quotations from Elizabeth Taylor the a
Emilie Loring —Uncharted Seas with Patti Bender
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Get ready to fall hopelessly in love with Emilie Loring, a New England native whose prolific output of richly-detailed romance novels feature the sort of charming characters
Angela Milne — One Year’s Time with Simon David Thomas
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Blogger, podcaster and consultant for the British Library Women Writers series Simon Thomas returns to the show to discuss Angela Milne’s 1942 novel One Year’s Time. The boo
Carolyn Wells — Murder in the Bookshop with Rebecca Rego Barry
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) A pioneer of the detective/mystery genre who began writing locked-room mystery novels a decade before Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells was a turn-of-the-twentieth century cele
Zelda Fitzgerald — Save Me the Waltz with Stephanie Peebles Tavera
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Zelda Fitzgerald is known as “the first American flapper” and an icon of the Jazz Age, but you may be surprised to learn that beneath the glittering facade, there was substa
HiATUS ENCORE: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) As Merchant Ivory super fans, we were surprised (and chagrined!) that we’d been unaware of Ismael Merchant and James Ivory’s longtime collaborator, novelist and Academy Awar
HIATUS ENCORE: Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) New full-length episodes beginning Jan. 30. Edna Ferber’s So Big was the top-selling novel of 1924 and it won a Pulitzer Prize, yet it’s little known now! Wildly popular in
HIATUS ENCORE: The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Published anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era epistolary novel The Woman of Colour: A Tale is t
Hiatus Replay: Maud Hart Lovelace — The Betsy-Tacy High School Books with Sadie Stein
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) New episodes beginning January 30. Ready for some Edwardian Era YA? Set in Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Hart Lovelace’s delightful Besty-Tacy series is cl
Hiatus Replay: Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Back with new episodes on January 30. Lucia Berlin has been called one of America's "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussing Berlin’s engrossing short short story collection
Hiatus Replay: Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) We’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes. Did you know there was a controversial, now-forgotten 1888 novel written in response to George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda by a
Hiatus Replay: Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) We’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes. Sisters Jane and Mary Findlater were literary celebrities in their day and counted the likes of Henry James, Virginia Wool
Hiatus Replay: Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) We're back with all new episodes on Jan. 30, 2024. Join us for a wonderfully funny and poignant conversation about life, death, and motherhood with award-winning writer Hilm
Mary McCarthy’s The Group Turns 60
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Join us as we discuss Mary McCarthy’s best-known work, The Group, published in 1963. An instant hit, it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years and foll
Lydia Maria Child and the “Thanksgiving” Poem
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this week’s bonus episode, we dig into the poem “Thanksgiving” by lost lady Lydia Maria Child. AND we remain ever thankful for you, our listeners! Discussed in this episo
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
The Women Who Illuminated Manuscripts
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Last week, with guest Kathleen B. Jones, we discussed Christine de Pizan and her Book of the City of Ladies. Could a woman's hand have been behind any of the beautiful illus
Christine de Pizan — The Book of the City of Ladies with Kathleen B. Jones
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) A widow who turned to her pen to support herself and her family, Christine de Pizan was described by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex as the first “woman to take up her
Cita Press & Sui Sin Far with Juliana Castro Varón and Victoria Namkung
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Learn more about the feminist open source publisher cita press and An Immortal Book: Selected Writings of Sui Sin Far, a curated collection of short fiction and nonfiction b
