Confessions of a Prairie Bitch Memoir (with Julia Washington)
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What is the premise of Alison Arngrim’s memoir “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”?
Welcome to Glamorous Trash. This is a podcast that book clubs celebrity memoirs, trashy discourse, and all things literary to elevate your life. I'm your host, Chelsea Devantes. I'm a TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, blah blah blah blah blah. Sometimes I'm in stuff too, you know me. And today we are book clubbing Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Olsen and learned to love. Of being hated, a comic Little House on the Prairie memoir by Alison Arngrim. So you will know Alison from when she starred as the iconic mean girl Nellie Olson on Little House on the Prairie, which she was on from 1974 to 1982. Little House on the Prairie is so popular. It was like one of the hugest hits in American television ever.
It was an American Western historical drama television series, loosely based on the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls-Wilder. And the series followed the Ingalls family, who lived on a farm in Plum Creek near Walnut. Grove in Minnesota, and it's really like pioneers and you know, running through meadows. It's like it's like the good old times. Such a huge show. That show is now remounted on Netflix. And this actress, who is also a comedian, stage actress, and philanthropist, wrote this book about starring as a little girl on this show and all her crazy Hollywood tales. Now, today, here to recap the book to me is our very special book recapper, book queen. It is Julia Washington.
Julia was on our hate and panaitier episode, the brandy episode, our heated rivalry panel. She is the owner of Pros and Glow, a literary-inspired gift shop, which you must sign up because I get a candle every month from Julia. It's the best part of my month. And we have a collab going with Julia where you can get a podcast. merch candle. Julia, what what does it say on our merch collab candles that people can buy if they want?
Psychic moment. Would you like a psychic moment? Light a candle.
Light a candle. Bring a psychic moment into your life. Bring a psychic moment into your life. We sent you a couple of books to cover. I told Christina I hope she picks this one because of the Netflix series remounting Little House on the Prairie. Are you watching the new series? Yes. And Chelsea,
I have to inform you. I have a niche interest of Lori Engelswilder in general. Of course. Of course you do. Like my joke is it's amazing I didn't become a trad wife because of the amount of L I W in. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Lori Ingles Wilders, thank you. Sorry, that's L I W, I assume. Yes, for all of the For all of our non-prairie bitches. Not just her books, the books her daughter wrote, the cookbooks, the tabletop books. Biographies. This is not a thing I was willing to admit until the Netflix series dropped and I was like, oh. And people were livid, right? They're like, what are you doing? The TV show's c a classic. And I was like, the TV show doesn't follow the books. I want something that follows the books.
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and is the Netflix series following the books? Yeah, they do. Yeah,
they do a really good job and they do this thing that I love when TV shows do, especially about stuff that's historical fiction. They also wrap in the geopolitical bullshit that was going on at the same time, right? Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote these books in her sixties. She is trying to remember what life is like at six. I don't know if you remember what life was like at six. I don't. Yeah, I've got I've got s some journals, but yeah, it's like you're you're a six year old. You're a six year old. And so, you know, it's very much through the lens of a six year old. The original printings, the language is real problematic. They reprinted them in the sixties to update it. They should probably do it again because I reread them and I was like, Oh, that's ooh, we don't talk like that anymore.
Can we redo that? Ooh, i uh like I'm assuming like racist stuff? Yeah, but it's like eighteen seventies racism, which doesn't Sound great, but hear me out, right? We have this whole concept of like byproduct of their time, which is true because when the Ingalls found out that the government didn't have the right to give them the land they were living on, Charles Ingalls was like, all right, well we gotta go then because we can't be here.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the premise of Alison Arngrim’s memoir “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”?
0:05–7:23
2
How did Alison first land the role of Nellie Olsen on *Little House on the Prairie*?
7:23–19:06
3
What warning did Melissa Gilbert give Alison about a fellow cast member?
19:06–37:55
4
How did childhood abuse and family secrets shape Alison’s early life?
37:55–52:50
Speakers
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