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.
Lost Ladies of Lit
Latest Episodes
Cynthia Buchanan — Maiden with Julia Ringo and Naomi Huffman
A 30-year-old virgin named Fortune Dundee moves into a swinging-singles L.A. apartment complex in Cynthia Buchanan’s 1972 debut novel Maiden. Newly reissued by Hagfish Books, this strange, post-modern work was once positioned in relati...
ENCORE: America's First Female Mayor — Susanna M. Salter
To celebrate historic record wins for women in the U.S. midterm elections this week, we're dusting off this episode from this week four years ago. Susanna M. Salter was a 27-year old political activist when she was placed on the 1860 Argonia, K...
ENCORE: Penning Patriotism — Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
In celebration of this week's Blue Tsunami, we're re-airing a previous bonus episode on Katharine Lee Bates. In the months leading up to the midterms, Iowa's newly-minted Democratic governor-elect Rob Sand kicked off each of his campaign events...
If These Walls Could Talk — The Dennis Severs House and the Art of Staged Spaces
Following last week’s conversation with Booker-Prize finalist Rebecca Perry, Amy revisits the topic of staged spaces, their meanings and their magic. From the tableaux arranged by the fictional curator in Perry’s May We Feed the King, ...