
Lost Ladies of Lit
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. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
Podcasting since 2020 • 254 episodes
Lost Ladies of Lit
Latest Episodes
Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Else Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 1909 publication, the novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 (along with its 1928 film adaptation) and fel...
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Episode 252
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The Country Girls Follow-up and J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man
Following last week’s episode on Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls, Amy offers a few updates and draws some comparisons to a more male-centric masterpiece set in Dublin during the same time period: J.P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man
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Episode 251
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Edna O'Brien — The Country Girls with Edan Lepucki
When Edna O’Brien published her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, she was branded a “Jezebel” in her native Ireland—but that didn’t stop her from completing a poignant trilogy about a pair of friends coming of age in a world for w...
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"Lost Lady"-Palooza at Mark Twain's Birthday
On December 5, 1905, America’s best and brightest literary minds convened at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City to fête the 70th birthday of Mark Twain. Women writers were well-represented on the invite list, including quite a few we’ve fe...
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Episode 249
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Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
If Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz drifting from a smoky cafe, the hum of a Vespa on narrow cobblestone streets … and the obnoxious griping...
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Episode 248
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