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Send us Fan Mail Here is part TWO of our foray into Guy de Maupassant's famous tale of the Franco-Prussian war--a meditation on what we ask of each other, who really suffers during wartime, and how the rich basically always suck no matter where they're from. If you didn't listen to part one, maybe go back and check that one out first! XOXO Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Hey hey, did you miss us???? Just to reiterate what I said in the beginning of the episode: we'll have a sporadic summer schedule, with the goal of getting back to posting regularly in the fall, because I became a PARENT and it is DISTRACTING.  In the meantime, here is part one of our foray into Guy de Maupassant's famous tale of the Franco-Prussian war--a meditation on...

Send us Fan Mail Where does war happen--in our hearts or on our phones? We're discussing Luigi Pirandello's classic short story "War," along with propaganda, the torment nexus, and why we keep feeding kids to the metaphorical woodchipper.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting frie...

Send us Fan Mail WE'RE BACK, DID YOU MISS US It's the sixth fragment of the Canterbury Tales, and we're hanging with our buddy Chaucie while we learn about filial piety, fancast a Looney Tunes adaptation, and ponder the position of women in the collapsing Republic (not that one). As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend...

Send us Fan Mail It's our traditional Christmas Haunt, and we're joined by bestie of the pod Maddie Wood to discuss Charlotte Riddell's "A Strange Christmas Game"! Come crash the holiday party as we talk haunted estates, the nouveau riche, sword fights, bridge, and whether demolition is just as good as an exorcism.  As always, we are: -Asking with all the love in our heart...

Send us Fan Mail It's spooky season, and this year the tradwife life is the most haunted house of all! Join us as we explore "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's immortal, haunting tale of entrapment, madness, and marriage.  As always, we are: -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting friend...

Send us Fan Mail Please note: Zach would like everyone to know that he KNOWS Wodehouse's lovely wife was named ETHEL, not EDITH, and he misspoke! Forgive him, if you'll be so kind.  We're indulging in a little Edwardian farce with the best to ever do it--humorist and all-around funny guy P.G. Wodehouse! Join us and cartoonist/author/also all-around funny guy Zach Weindersmith as we...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 finale! OMG!! If you want to keep up with us, go and subscribe at https://gracetodd.substack.com/ to stay in the loop!!  As always, we are: -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting friends @didntreadit on Instagram & Twitter -Accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -Accepting...

Send us Fan Mail Pride month never ends at Didn't Read It, and we're cruising into July with another "they definitely weren't roommates" literary classic--Rose Terry's haunting short story "My Visitation." New pal of the pod Kat Ray joins us to discuss when men deserve their snaps, whether the straights are okay, and the eternal allure of the lavender marria...

Send us Fan Mail It's the 4th of July, and we're feeling real weird about it! As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting friends @didntreadit on Instagram & Twitter -Accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "...

Send us Fan Mail Toni, our resident medievalist gal about town, has returned to give us more of that sweet sweet Chaucer content!!  In the Fifth Fragment, we're talking about storytelling, promises you shouldn't have to keep, and even more Terrible Medieval Husbands.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show &l...

Send us Fan Mail Spring is bleeding into summer and we're attending a perfectly innocent garden party where nothing bad happens to anyone! Join us as we explore Katherine Mansfield's complex little tale of Edwardian New Zealand and try to decide which articles of clothing, exactly, would convince us to abandon our sense of decency.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our he...

Send us Fan Mail It's a holiday weekend and we're celebrating by diving into more oldey-timey raunchy literature! Join us and new friend of the pod Kathleen Lubey, author of  What Pornography Knows, as we dive into Eliza Haywood's racy and transgressive novella "Fantomina"!  If you'd like to hear more from Kathleen, you can find her at https://www.kathleenlubey.com/ o...

Send us Fan Mail The New Yorker turned 100 this year, and so we're taking a trip through the archives to explore the first (not so great) year of fiction published by the magazine, discuss the legacy of early fiction editor Katherine White, and more!  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting friends...

Send us Fan Mail Pal of the pod Ty Phelps is back to take us on a tour through Tove Jansson's short fiction, wax rhapsodic about the Moomin books, and decide whether we're all just the figments of a squirrel's imagination.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting friends @didntreadit on I...

Send us Fan Mail Something's rotten in this apartment building! Join us as we explore Richard Matheson's unsettling sci-fi classic "Shipshape Home" and dive into housing anxiety, risking a lobotomy to prove a point, and the eternal dismissiveness of 1950s husbands. As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the...

Send us Fan Mail IS everyone crazy but me??? We're exploring Shirley Jackson's incredible (and unfortunately relatable) short story "Colloquy"--join us as we commiserate over the state of the world, talk about the Bad Old Days, and decide if we've actually lost it after all.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a f...

Send us Fan Mail We're diving into the bonds between military men, enticing accents, and the dangers of the high seas with Jake Phillips from The Cultured Bumpkin! Join us as we explore Arthur Quiller-Couch's "The Roll Call of the Reef," Manfluencers, Boulder-Tumbling Weather, and more.  If you'd like to see more of Jake's work, check him out at The Cultured Bumpkin o...

Send us Fan Mail We've had technical difficulties! This is a re-post of an old episode to buy us time to vanquish the computer gremlins. Wish us luck and enjoy this throwback episode!! With love and panic,  XOXO, The DRI Team  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Gumshoes! Dead chauffeurs! Fake bookstores! We're diving into the noir world of Raymond Chandler as Marilyn Drew Necci takes us on a journey through "The Big Sleep." You can find Drew's weekly column at The Auricular: https://www.theauricular.com/ or you can find her on BlueSky at @annihilatethisweek.bsky.social  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in...

Send us Fan Mail Gumshoes! Dead chauffeurs! Fake bookstores! We're diving into the noir world of Raymond Chandler as Marilyn Drew Necci takes us on a journey through "The Big Sleep." You can find Drew's weekly column at The Auricular: https://www.theauricular.com/ or you can find her on BlueSky at @annihilatethisweek.bsky.social  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in...

Send us Fan Mail We're diving into Bram Stoker's "Dracula" ( 1897), F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922), and Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" (2024) to look at the translation of the OG vampire from page to screen to screen--from the peak of the British Empire, through the Weimar Republic, to whatever the hell it is we're living through now.  As always...

Send us Fan Mail Part Two! We're finishing "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and talking about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's life, his time in the United States, and how censorship does and doesn't work today--join us and new pal Goad Gatsby as we finish our march through the steppes.  If you'd like to see more of Goad, you can find him on Bluesky @goad.bsky.social...

Send us Fan Mail We're diving into the cheerful, cheerful world of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his classic novel of the Soviet gulags, "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"--join us and new pal Goad Gatsby as we meditate on the importance of lunch and not licking other people's leftovers.  If you'd like to see more of Goad, you can find him on Bluesky @goad.bsky.social or...

Send us Fan Mail 50 Shades of Spanking! Join us for our Valentine's Day Spectacular as we explore the thrills of Anne Rice's naughty riff on the famous fairy tale, as well as censorship, fantasy, and a little V-Day game.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a review or tell a friend about the show <3 -Accepting friends @didntreadit on Instagra...