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A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.
Send us Fan Mail Though her high-flying literary husband took center-stage, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry was more than just the metaphorical “r...
Send us Fan Mail The first Mexican-American woman novelist to be published in English, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton chose a surprising subjec...
Send us Fan Mail Determined from a young age to escape the Jim-Crow South and see new places, Mississippi native Juanita Harrison managed, a...
Send us Fan Mail A literary icon in her native Hungary, Magda Szabó was relatively unknown to English-speaking readers until recent translat...
Send us Fan Mail Pass the smelling salts! Readers of the Victorian Era eagerly (or furtively) set scruples aside to read Mary Elizabeth Brad...
Send us Fan Mail Her Life in Ink, a brand new biography by Sharon Harris about Elizabeth Garver Jordan, provides a good reason to plunder ou...
Send us Fan Mail “Queen of the Dunes” Hazel Hawthorne was a Cape Cod legend who wrote about The Road nearly two decades before her one-time...
Send us Fan Mail In this encore presentation, Kim and Amy take stock by dusting off a "New Year’s" episode from 1921, sharing secrets of wha...
Send us Fan Mail Virginia Faulkner had no family ties to that other famous Faulkner, but she is connected to another icon of classic America...
Send us Fan Mail Before penning the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” Katharine Lee Bates shone a spotlight on the invisible (and not so in...
Send us Fan Mail Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest c...
Send us Fan Mail Likened to a fresh Yorkshire breeze, Malachi Whitaker’s year-in-the-life memoir And So Did I , published in 1939, is a quir...
Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Kim and Amy recount their recent visit to The Sitting Room, a unique library and literary salon in...
Send us Fan Mail Republished this year by Valancourt books, Rosalind’s Ashe’s 1976 gothic thriller Moths is a spine-chilling tale of superna...
Send us Fan Mail Often called “the lesbian Bible,” Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness has been sparking debate for nearly a...
Send us Fan Mail In this follow-up to our 2021 episode on Nancy Mitford, we’re turning the spotlight on her younger sister, Jessica (a.k.a....
Send us Fan Mail With her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lone...
Send us Fan Mail In this encore presentation, we’re reviving a literary suicide scandal that took place among some of the biggest names in t...
Send us Fan Mail Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly...
Send us Fan Mail What if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that al...
Send us Fan Mail Woman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's won...
Send us Fan Mail Else Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 19...
Send us Fan Mail When Edna O’Brien published her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, she was branded a “Jezebel” in her native Ireland—bu...
Send us Fan Mail If Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret windo...
Send us Fan Mail Langston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at...
Send us Fan Mail Dastardly villains are no match for Capitola Black, the audacious heroine at the center of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s 1859 bests...
Send us Fan Mail F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be the novel everyone’s talking about this month, but let’s not forget another “...
Send us Fan Mail Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not the heroines from Angela Carter’s 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. The...
Send us Fan Mail When Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a real-life Robinson Crusoe on a remote tropical island, s...
Send us Fan Mail The recent hatching of baby eaglets in Big Bear, CA has Amy thinking a lot about patriotism and what it actually means in t...
Send us Fan Mail Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the...
Send us Fan Mail How do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers...
Send us Fan Mail One hundred years ago this week, The New Yorker published its first issue. A few months later, the magazine’s first (and fo...
Send us Fan Mail January was dismal, but we’re distracting ourselves with something shiny in this first new full-length episode of the year....
Send us Fan Mail If you’re drawn to the hefty tomes of Victorian authors Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, we can pretty much guarantee you...
Send us Fan Mail In this week's hiatus replay, we’re focusing on one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and playwrights, Laryssa Kosach, who...
Send us Fan Mail Novelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Ital...
Send us Fan Mail At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation t...
Send us Fan Mail Charmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Victorian poet Christina Rossetti...
Send us Fan Mail Margaret Drabble’s 1965 novel The Millstone offers a nuanced portrayal of single motherhood in 1960s London. Author Carrie...
Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies...
Send us Fan Mail Growing up on the Great Plains and witnessing the struggles of migrant workers in California made Sanora Babb uniquely qual...
Send us Fan Mail Details of Eliza Haywood’s life may be murky today, but in the early 18th century, she was a literary force—writing plays a...
Send us Fan Mail Long before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resi...
Send us Fan Mail HIATUS ENCORE: Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher ,...
Send us Fan Mail As Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report th...
Send us Fan Mail HIATUS ENCORE: Sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porters’ books took Regency-era England by storm just a few years ahead of Jane...
Send us Fan Mail HIATUS ENCORE: Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet w...
Send us Fan Mail Did you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts , a tawd...
Send us Fan Mail Pack your steamer trunks! We’re traveling to 19th-century Bavaria this week by way of Ann Schlee’s 1980 historical novel Rh...