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Ghosts of the Middle Class: "A Strange Christmas Game," by Charlotte Riddell
14 Dec 2025
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Send us a textIt's our traditional Christmas Haunt, and we're joined by bestie of the pod Maddie Wood to discuss Charlotte Riddell's &q...
Bedrot and the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
19 Oct 2025
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Send us a textIt's spooky season, and this year the tradwife life is the most haunted house of all! Join us as we explore "The Yellow Wallpa...
Nobody Loves Edwardian Farce Anymore: P.G. Wodehouse with Zach Weinersmith
21 Sep 2025
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Send us a textPlease note: Zach would like everyone to know that he KNOWS Wodehouse's lovely wife was named ETHEL, not EDITH, and he misspoke! Fo...
Kid Lit and Preparing to Die: John Newbury's "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"
03 Aug 2025
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Send us a textSeason 2 finale! OMG!!If you want to keep up with us, go and subscribe at https://gracetodd.substack.com/ to stay in the loop!! As alwa...
Christmas Pride in July: "My Visitation," by Rose Terry
20 Jul 2025
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Send us a textPride month never ends at Didn't Read It, and we're cruising into July with another "they definitely weren't roommat...
"His America," by Susan Glaspell
06 Jul 2025
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Send us a textIt's the 4th of July, and we're feeling real weird about it!As always, we are: -Asking with all the love in our hearts that y...
More Marriage, More Problems: The Fifth Fragment of the Canterbury Tales
22 Jun 2025
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Send us a textToni, our resident medievalist gal about town, has returned to give us more of that sweet sweet Chaucer content!! In the Fifth Fragment...
Extravagant Morals & Hat Bribery: Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party"
08 Jun 2025
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Send us a textSpring is bleeding into summer and we're attending a perfectly innocent garden party where nothing bad happens to anyone! Join us a...
Vintage Smut With Things to Say: Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," with Kathleen Lubey
25 May 2025
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Send us a textIt's a holiday weekend and we're celebrating by diving into more oldey-timey raunchy literature! Join us and new friend of the...
100 Years of Fiction: Happy Birthday to the New Yorker!
11 May 2025
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Send us a textThe New Yorker turned 100 this year, and so we're taking a trip through the archives to explore the first (not so great) year of fi...
Imaginary Mammal Algorithms: Tove Jansson's "The Storm" and "The Squirrel"
27 Apr 2025
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Send us a textPal of the pod Ty Phelps is back to take us on a tour through Tove Jansson's short fiction, wax rhapsodic about the Moomin books, a...
Creepy Janitors & Perfect Apartments: Richard Matheson's "Shipshape Home"
20 Apr 2025
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Send us a textSomething's rotten in this apartment building!Join us as we explore Richard Matheson's unsettling sci-fi classic "Shipsha...
We're All Crazy Here: Shirley Jackon's "Colloquy"
13 Apr 2025
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Send us a textIS everyone crazy but me???We're exploring Shirley Jackson's incredible (and unfortunately relatable) short story "Colloq...
Male Friendship & Cornish Shipwrecks: "The Roll Call of the Reef," with Jake Phillips
06 Apr 2025
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Send us a textWe're diving into the bonds between military men, enticing accents, and the dangers of the high seas with Jake Phillips from The Cu...
Didn't Read It Throwback: Jane Rice's "The Refugee"
30 Mar 2025
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Send us a textWe've had technical difficulties! This is a re-post of an old episode to buy us time to vanquish the computer gremlins. Wish us luc...
Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," Part Two!
23 Mar 2025
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Send us a textGumshoes! Dead chauffeurs! Fake bookstores! We're diving into the noir world of Raymond Chandler as Marilyn Drew Necci takes us on ...
Dizzy Dames & Private Eyes: Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," Pt 1
16 Mar 2025
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Send us a textGumshoes! Dead chauffeurs! Fake bookstores! We're diving into the noir world of Raymond Chandler as Marilyn Drew Necci takes us on ...
From Victoriana to Tech Billionaires: Nosferatu, Nosferatu, and Dracula
09 Mar 2025
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Send us a textWe're diving into Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922), and Robert Eggers...
Part Two: Solzhenitsyn, the American Right Wing, & Censorship: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," with Goad Gatsby
02 Mar 2025
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Send us a textPart Two! We're finishing "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and talking about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's life, ...
Who Doesn't Love a Gulag? "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," with Goad Gatsby
23 Feb 2025
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Send us a textWe're diving into the cheerful, cheerful world of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his classic novel of the Soviet gulags, "A Day in...
A Smutty Valentine's Day Spectacular: Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" Series
14 Feb 2025
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Send us a text50 Shades of Spanking! Join us for our Valentine's Day Spectacular as we explore the thrills of Anne Rice's naughty riff on th...
Farmers and Forgotten Radicals: Susan Glaspell's "Pollen," with Cat Baab
09 Feb 2025
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Send us a textEverything old is new again! Join us and special guest Cat Baab (https://poecansaveyourlife.substack.com/) as we explore the quiet radic...
Tattoos, Starving Artists, and Being Eaten by the Rich: Roald Dahl's "Skin"
02 Feb 2025
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Send us a textWe're talking about the age-old tensions between fine art, needing to eat, and deciding whether selling out is worth it as we discu...
True Crime and Spouse Disposal: Anthony Shaffer's "Murderer"
26 Jan 2025
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Send us a textInfidelity! True crime obsessions! Mistaken identities! David Timberline joins us to discuss Anthony Shaffer's "Murderer,"...
Part Two - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Chivalry and Right-Wing Propaganda
19 Jan 2025
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Send us a textPart Two!We're BACK in the swing of things with resident Medievalist gal-about-town, Toni, to take a ride through Sir Gawain and th...
Mud, Chivalry, and A24: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Page & Screen
12 Jan 2025
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Send us a textWe're BACK in the swing of things with resident Medievalist gal-about-town, Toni, to take a ride through Sir Gawain and the Green K...
They Can't All Be Classics: Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot
05 Jan 2025
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Send us a text2025 is here and we are not! Ready! So join us on a meandering adventure through "Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot,&q...
Another Holiday Haunt: "A Christmas Meeting," by Rosemary Timperley
29 Dec 2024
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Send us a textOur second Holiday Haunt! A woman spending Christmas alone has a rather unexpected visitor in Rosemary Timperley's sweet-but-spooky...
Holiday Haunt: "The Man Who Came Back," by Margery Lawrence
22 Dec 2024
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Send us a textHappy Holidays and a Festive Winter Season to all! For our first Holiday Haunt, we're reading Margery Lawrence's "The Man...
Going on Strike for Christmas: Maeve Binchy's "This Year It Will Be Different."
15 Dec 2024
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Send us a textWant to help support the show? Buy a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Beloved friend of the pod Leigh is back to talk about moms hitting th...
Daddy Issues and Festive Shafts: L.P. Hartley's "Someone in the Lift"
08 Dec 2024
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Send us a textComedian Hannah Land joins us to talk about L.P. Hartley, daddy issues, Santa Claus, and why we spend so much time trying to kill Daddy ...
Part Two! Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey": A Little Jane in These Hard Times
01 Dec 2024
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Send us a textWant to help support the show? Buy a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!PART TWO! The holidays are nearly here, and the world is maybe endin...
A Bit of Escapism, As A Treat: Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey"
24 Nov 2024
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Send us a textWant to help support the show? Buy a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!The holidays are nearly here, and the world is maybe ending, we'...
"F*ck Your Truth": Farley Mowat, Ironic Wolf T-Shirts, and Defining Nonfiction
17 Nov 2024
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Send us a textTy Phelps is with us again, and we're getting to the bottom of 90's ironic wolf tees, what nonfiction really means, and the wo...
Mawwiage Story: The Fourth Fragment of "The Canterbury Tales"
10 Nov 2024
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Send us a textToni, our resident medievalist gal about town, has returned to give us more of that sweet sweet Chaucer content!! In the Fourth Fragmen...
The Nerd and the Succubus: "Amore Dure: Passages from the Diary of Spiridion Trepka," by Vernon Lee
03 Nov 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Pod bestie Will is back to tell us about Vernon Lee's tal...
Italian Witchcraft and a Mad Madonna: Alicia Ramsey's "A Modern Circe"
27 Oct 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Beloved of the show Jessica Camilli (@Rapid.Eyes , https://rap...
Uterine Fury and Bloodlust: "The White Maniac," by Mary Helene Fortune
20 Oct 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!It's a bloody good time with our official Vampire Corresp...
Undead Trad Wives: "The Nature of the Evidence," by May Sinclair
13 Oct 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Frisky flappers and undead trad wives abound in May Sinclair&a...
Volume Three - Mary Shelley's Prophetic Apocalypse: "The Last Man."
06 Oct 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Mary Shelley: the gothic queen of our hearts, the immortal cre...
Volume Two - Hamster Wheel of Doom: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man"
29 Sep 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Mary Shelley: the gothic queen of our hearts, the immortal cre...
Volume One - From Frankenstein to the End of the World: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man"
22 Sep 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Mary Shelley: the gothic queen of our hearts, the immortal cre...
Pt 2! Be Gay Do Crime: The Crossdressing Jacobean Antics of "The Roaring Girl"
15 Sep 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!It's Part Two! We're doing queer crimes! We're ...
Be Gay Do Crime: The Crossdressing Jacobean Antics of "The Roaring Girl" - Part One
08 Sep 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!We're doing queer crimes! We're learning about Jacob...
Cruising in the Catacombs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
01 Sep 2024
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Send us a textWE ARE BACK for SEASON TWO!!!!We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!We're drinking a fine vinta...
A Hauntingly Good Special: Plot Me Baby One More Time, Summer Edition
14 Jul 2024
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Send us a textSeason One has drawn, more or less, to a close! We'll be posting intermittently for the rest of July & August, and then be back...
Blackmail, Gay Besties, and Too Much Hand Licking: The Triumphant Conclusion of Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"
23 Jun 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Queer besties! Sinister Plots! Cousin Marriage! Part THREE...
Attempted Himbo Murder, Carriage Scandal, and More Bridgerton Inspiration: Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck," Part Two
16 Jun 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!MORE scandal! MORE Horse Girl Content! MORE Bridgerton Ins...
The Birth of Bridgerton and So Much Horse Girl Content: Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"
09 Jun 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!Scandal! Carriage rides! Unsuitable entanglements! We&apos...
Double Lives and Color Codes: Oscar Wilde's "The Sphinx Without a Secret"
02 Jun 2024
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Send us a textWe HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!!We're kicking off pride month with our beloved Oscar ...
Stop Eating the Spinsters: Mary Wilkins Freeman's "Luella Miller"
19 May 2024
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Send us a textWeird sexy babies! Energy vampires! A desperate need for someone to make the coffee!Jess Versus supplied our sweet cover art and came to...
Old Man Besties & Metaphorical Boots: "Waiting for Godot," by Samuel Beckett
12 May 2024
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Send us a textWhat do we want? Godot! When do we want it? On an uncertain and largely symbolic timeline that represents the uncertainty of existence!W...
Queer Prince Charming, Decadence, and the End of the World: "Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned"
05 May 2024
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Send us a textWe're talking about the French Decadents, subverted fairy tales, and everybody's favorite green ogre in this week's episo...
Fart division, Shallow Hal, and Chaucer: the Third Fragment of "The Canterbury Tales"
28 Apr 2024
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Send us a textToni, our resident medievalist gal about town, has returned to give us more of that sweet sweet Chaucer content!! The Wife of Bath, the...
Patricia Highsmith Was a Terrible Dinner Guest: "Where the Action Is" and Art vs. Artist
14 Apr 2024
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Send us a textWe're accidentally hip, for once in our lives! Just in time for Netflix's new adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, we'r...
Edith Wharton's "Kerfol": Gals, Ghosts, & Very Good Boys
07 Apr 2024
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Send us a textHaunted houses! Law & Order: Brittany Ghosts Unit! Galen is back and she is RUINING DAYS with "Kerfol," Edith Wharton&apos...
Plant Daddies, Empire, and H.G. Wells: "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid"
31 Mar 2024
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Send us a textSinister plants, subversive sexualities, and the insecurity of empire! Join us as we dive into H.G. Wells' "The Flowering of t...
Sad Art Boys and the Housewives Who Love Them: Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman."
24 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWhat do any of us want more than a Muse Mommy?Join Grace & new pal of the pod Jessica Camilli for an exploration of Thomas Hardy&apo...
More Mules More Problems: "The Unvanquished," Part Two
17 Mar 2024
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Send us a textMore lost cause narratives! Broken cycles! Fewer mules!Join Grace & new friend of the pod Maddie Wood as we dive into PART TWO of Wi...
Lost Causes and Stolen Mules: William Faulkner's "The Unvanquished," with Maddie Wood - Part One
10 Mar 2024
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Send us a textChests of silver! Nascent lost cause narratives! So, so many mules!Join Grace & new friend of the pod Maddie Wood as we dive into Wi...
Raising the Stakes with Your Wine Bros: Roald Dahl's "Taste," with Michael Smith
03 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWho doesn't love a naughty little wine?Join us as we discuss Roald Dahl's distinctly grown-up short story, "Taste," ...
Leigh is #TeamKitty: Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier," Part Two
25 Feb 2024
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Send us a textPart Two! MORE unhappy spouses! MORE passive-aggressive clothing commentary! Fun psychologists! A creeping sense of dread! What more cou...
Crimes Against Fashion AND Humanity: Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier" - Part One
18 Feb 2024
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Send us a textUnhappy spouses! Passive-aggressive outfit choices! Spinster Cousins! This book has it all!Join us as we dive into the immortal Rebecca ...
World War One Propaganda and the Original Main Character Girlie: Arthur Machen's "The Bowmen."
11 Feb 2024
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Send us a textGrace & Leigh are diving into World War One with Arthur Machen's "The Bowmen"! Join us for big questions about portra...
Pay Us in Wine: The First Fragment of the Canterbury Tales, with Toni DiNardo
04 Feb 2024
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Send us a textWe're BACK to hard-hitting literary analysis without ANY dirty jokes! Definitely for reals! Toni DiNardo takes us on a journey thr...
Shameless Filler - Plot Me Baby One More Time
28 Jan 2024
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Send us a textWe desperately needed extra research and editing time, so this week we're presenting PLOT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME: An Extremely Serio...
Cursed Books and Bad Architecture: Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow," with Ty Phelps
21 Jan 2024
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Send us a textOld men yelling at clouds! Sweeping away Bad Architecture! Building suspiciously homogenous alternate worlds! Ty and Grace are exploring...
James Joyce's "Ulysses," with Marilyn Drew Necci - Part Two
14 Jan 2024
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Send us a textIt's Part Two!! We're kicking off the New Year with a journey into Joyce--namely, Joyce's Ulysses, a perilous tome of a b...
James Joyce's "Ulysses," with Marilyn Drew Necci - Part One
07 Jan 2024
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Send us a textWe're kicking off the New Year with a journey into Joyce--namely, Joyce's Ulysses, a perilous tome of a book that has no doubt...
"How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery" - Holiday Horror Story Theater
31 Dec 2023
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Send us a textHappy New Year from Didn't Read It!Continuing our end-of-year Holiday Haunts, I present you with E.F. Benson's "How Fear ...
Holiday Horror Story Theater - "Lucky's Grove"
24 Dec 2023
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Send us a textHappy Holidays from Didn't Read It! In tribute to the Victorian tradition of reading ghost stories at Christmas, Grace is here to ...
Part Two! Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" on Page vs. Screen
17 Dec 2023
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Send us a textWe're BACK with more Scrooge, more Muppet references, and some very important commiseration about the truly frightening costume des...
Muppets and Lobsters: Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" on Page vs. Screen
10 Dec 2023
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Send us a textLight the lamp, not the rat, light the LAMP, NOT THE RAT!The holidays are beginning at Didn't Read It! Grace rounded up her bestie...
War Tourists & Werewolves: Jane Rice's "The Refugee," with William Albritton
19 Nov 2023
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Send us a textWe're prowling through the text of Jane Rice's prescient and darkly funny short story, "The Refugee." This oft-antho...
Part Two: Domestic Dystopias & Interwar Eugenics: Rose Macaulay's "What Not"
12 Nov 2023
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Send us a textWe've seen what happens to the Ministry of Brains, but what does it all mean??? Join us as we dive back into the world of "Wha...
Domestic Dystopias & the Ministry of Brains: Rose Macaulay's "What Not."
05 Nov 2023
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Send us a textAerobuses! Baby laws! The Ministry of Brains! It's Guy Fawkes Night and we're taking a trip into a Very English Dystopia as tr...
Happy Halloween!
31 Oct 2023
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Send us a textHello gals, gays, ghouls and ghosties! A little Halloween gift--one of Shirley Jackson's oh-so-disconcerting short stories, just fo...
Surely Not, "Shirley": Shirley Jackson's Life & the Lies We Tell About It
29 Oct 2023
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Send us a textHello my loves!Join us as we celebrate Halloweekend by diving into the most frightening thing of all: the misappropriation of a woman&ap...
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," with Kayleigh Hughes
22 Oct 2023
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Send us a textIt's spooky season, and we're celebrating with an exploration of Washington Irving's timeless classic, "The Legend o...
Back from the grave, it's Carmilla Part Two!
15 Oct 2023
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Send us a textWe resurrected ourselves to bring you all the dirty details about Carmilla, including some of Carmen Maria Machado's additions to t...
They Were Vampire Roommates: Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla"
08 Oct 2023
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Send us a textIt's vampires! It's lesbians! It's lesbian vampires! Join us as we take a bite out of one of the first works of vampire l...
That. Girl. Is. Poiiiisoooooon: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter.”
24 Sep 2023
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Send us a textIf you're going to turn someone into a bioweapon, consent is key!!!We're talking about Nathanial Hawthorne, poisonous ladies, ...
The Metamorphosis Part Two: Now With More Bug!
17 Sep 2023
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Send us a textWe're back and bugger than ever! Join William and Grace as they dive into the depths of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis,...
Bug in the Bed: Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," Part One
10 Sep 2023
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Send us a textGregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams to discover that he had been transformed in his bed into #Content. Part one of two!...
The Ones Who Post About Omelas
03 Sep 2023
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Send us a textIt's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," and the ones who post about it! We're talking about Ursula K. Le Guin&apo...
The Faust and the Furious: Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus," Part Two
27 Aug 2023
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Send us a textWe continue our brief and torrid love affair with Christopher Marlowe in part two! Here you'll find us digging into Elizabethan que...
Condemn Me, Daddy: Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"
20 Aug 2023
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Send us a text**Quick note: I got my Catholic power struggles a little muddled talking about popes and anti-popes and the reformation, so don't c...