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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Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years.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
An England Travelogue
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this week’s mini, Amy shares some of the lesser-known spots she visited on her August trip to England (which included meetups with a few past guests from the show!). From
Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Susan J. Wolfson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Joining us to discuss Mary Wollstonecraft's extraordinary life and her seminal work, A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, is Dr. Susan J. Wolfson, a professor of English fr
Verbal Faux Pas and Mondegreens
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this week’s mini, we’re sharing some of our favorite verbal faux pas and mondegreens. The term mondegreen, which was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 essay for Harper's
Sylvia Townsend Warner — Lolly Willowes with Sarah Watling
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes” (1926) holds a coveted spot on The Guardian's list of the top 100 English language novels and acclaimed director Greta Gerwig is al
Back to School Prof Edition
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) From Dark Academia trends inspired by Donna Tartt's “The Secret History” to other campus novels like Kingsley Amis' “Lucky Jim” and Philip Roth's “The Human Stain,” we delve
Susan Taubes — Divorcing with Rosemary Kelty
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) When 'Divorcing' was first published in 1969, the critic Hugh Kenner penned a review for the New York Times that dismissed its author, Susan Taubes, as 'a quick-change artis
Hollywood’s Golden Age (for Women)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In support of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, this week’s mini is focused on lost lady screenwriters. In the early days of Hollywood, more than half of all screen
Ismat Chughtai - The Quilt and Other Stories with Tania Malik
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Ismat Chughtai was one of the boldest and most outspoken writers of her day. Her cleverly-crafted short story “The Quilt” sparked a years-long obscenity trial, but it also h
Anne Askew’s Unyielding Spirit
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this week’s mini episode, we’re talking about Anne Askew, a Tudor writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII. We’
