Looking for an escape from the news of the day or just the daily grind? Amy has four tips in this week’s bonus episode to obtain some mental R&R, from a soothing 1977 documentary on Georgia O’Keeffe to a free online reading group tackling D...

With her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love is the 1918 Yiddish precursor to Girls’ Hannah Horvath, Se...

Amy’s recent attendance at a production of the jukebox musical “& Juliet” has her thinking about how Shakespeare’s ill-fated teenage beauty could have made wiser choices. So, too, might the Baroness Mary Vetsera, the 17-year-old whose utter...

In this encore presentation, we’re reviving a literary suicide scandal that took place among some of the biggest names in the West Coast’s early 20th century bohemian society. Joining us to discuss lost poet Nora May French and her life—and dea...

Whether it’s Lauren Sánchez’s commitment to tight-laced corsets or mainstream media reports that bloomers are officially back in fashion, unmentionables seem worthy of mention in this bonus episode, as Amy leads listeners through a bit of fashi...