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Send us Fan Mail We HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Queer besties! Sinister Plots! Cousin Marriage! Part THREE of our series on the OG Regency romance, Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"!  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 @didntread...

Send us Fan Mail We HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! MORE scandal! MORE Horse Girl Content! MORE Bridgerton Inspiration! Part TWO of our series on the OG Regency romance, Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"!  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...

Send us Fan Mail We HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Scandal! Carriage rides! Unsuitable entanglements! We're exploring the OG Regency romance, Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"!  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 o...

Send us Fan Mail We HAVE MERCH NOW! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! We're kicking off pride month with our beloved Oscar Wilde! Will is back to help us get to the bottom of this secretive little story, a tale of intrigue, surveillance, and the unavoidable pull of societal expectations.  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you leave us a...

Send us Fan Mail Weird sexy babies! Energy vampires! A desperate need for someone to make the coffee! Jess Versus supplied our sweet cover art and came to talk to us about Mary Wilkins Freeman's 1903 short story, "Luella Miller"!  If you can't get enough of Jess's amazing art, check out @jessversus or @xenithrichmond on Instagram, or at https://xenith.glossgenius.com.  As...

Send us Fan Mail What do we want? Godot! When do we want it? On an uncertain and largely symbolic timeline that represents the uncertainty of existence! We're taking a stroll through Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," with David Timberline!  If you want more of David, you can find him on the podcast "Chasing Phantom," read his theater reviews in Richmond's Sty...

Send us Fan Mail We're talking about the French Decadents, subverted fairy tales, and everybody's favorite green ogre in this week's episode about turn-of-the-century fairy tales! Join us as we explore Willie's "Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned" and Renee Vivien's "Prince Charming."  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you...

Send us Fan Mail Toni, our resident medievalist gal about town, has returned to give us more of that sweet sweet Chaucer content!!  The Wife of Bath, the Friar, and the Summoner give us their tales, and their gossip in the Third Fragment:  join us for all the mature, reserved Chaucerian humor you've come to expect, and try to guess which website we find a Canterbury Tales adaptation hosted on...

Send us Fan Mail We're accidentally hip, for once in our lives! Just in time for Netflix's new adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, we're joined by pod bestie Leigh to talk about Highsmith's short story, "Where the Action Is." American grifts, snail obsessions, and bad authorial behavior abound!  As always, we are:  -Asking with all the love in our hearts that you l...

Send us Fan Mail Haunted houses! Law & Order: Brittany Ghosts Unit! Galen is back and she is RUINING DAYS with "Kerfol," Edith Wharton's riveting--and, frankly, *stressful*--story about a man, a wife, and an unexpected haunting.  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 @didntr...

Send us Fan Mail Sinister plants, subversive sexualities, and the insecurity of empire! Join us as we dive into H.G. Wells' "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" with old pal of the pod William!  As always, we are:  -Accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -Accepting friends @didntreadit on Instagram & Twitter -Accepting academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com...

Send us Fan Mail What do any of us want more than a Muse Mommy? Join Grace & new pal of the pod Jessica Camilli for an exploration of Thomas Hardy's short story "An Imaginative Woman"! Neglectful husbands! Affairs of the mind! Aesthetic preoccupations that prove fatal! What more could you want? Looking for more of Jessica? You can find her (and her incredible art!!) @rapid.eyes...

Send us Fan Mail More lost cause narratives! Broken cycles! Fewer mules! Join Grace & new friend of the pod Maddie Wood as we dive into PART TWO of William Faulkner's The Unvanquished,   a novel of lore, loss, and livestock set during the American Civil War.  If you'd like more of Maddie, you can find her @MadelineandNine on Instagram! Send her your fave true crime recommendations. &...

Send us Fan Mail Chests of silver! Nascent lost cause narratives! So, so many mules! Join Grace & new friend of the pod Maddie Wood as we dive into William Faulkner's The Unvanquished,   a novel of lore, loss, and livestock set during the American Civil War.  If you'd like more of Maddie, you can find her @MadelineandNine on Instagram! Send her your fave true crime recommendations. &...

Send us Fan Mail Who doesn't love a naughty little wine? Join us as we discuss Roald Dahl's distinctly grown-up short story, "Taste," which has a little bit of everything--fine wines! Betrayals! Intellect-measuring contests! Dudes being dudes! If you--like us!--can't get enough of Michael, you can find him on Instagram @macklesmiff! And check out @NativeSelections if you&a...

Send us Fan Mail Part Two! MORE unhappy spouses! MORE passive-aggressive clothing commentary! Fun psychologists! A creeping sense of dread! What more could you ask for? Join us as we finish our exploration of the immortal Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier," a compelling and *~drama-filled~* tale of the home front during World War One--and so much more.  As always, we are:  -...

Send us Fan Mail Unhappy spouses! Passive-aggressive outfit choices! Spinster Cousins! This book has it all! Join us as we dive into the immortal Rebecca West's FIRST novel, a compelling and *~drama-filled~* tale of the home front during World War One--and so much more.  As always, we are:  -accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -accepting friends @didntreadit on Instagra...

Send us Fan Mail Grace & Leigh are diving into World War One with Arthur Machen's "The Bowmen"! Join us for big questions about portraying war in literature, citing your sources when you write about ghosts, and asides on what a WWI nurse might have done with access to TikTok.  As ALWAYS you can find more at didntreaditpod.com! You can email us complaints and nemesis applications...

Send us Fan Mail We're BACK to hard-hitting literary analysis without ANY dirty jokes! Definitely for reals!  Toni DiNardo takes us on a journey through the first fragment of the Canterbury Tales--join us as we discuss sexy priests, wet humors, Monty Python, and the true timelessness of ass-kissing jokes.  *A QUICK NOTE: Toni would like you all to know that she cannot believe she slipped up a...

Send us Fan Mail We desperately needed extra research and editing time, so this week we're presenting PLOT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME: An Extremely Serious and Well-Produced Episode.  We will be back next week with your regular programming--we love you all! XOXO Find old episodes, sources and more at didntreaditpod.com! Complain to us at didntreaditpod@gmail.com! Check out our meme game at @didntr...

Send us Fan Mail Old men yelling at clouds! Sweeping away Bad Architecture! Building suspiciously homogenous alternate worlds! Ty and Grace are exploring Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow this week, and more specifically, diving into "The Repairer of Reputations," Chambers' tale of madness, cursed fiction, and a real bummer alternate version of New York in 1920.  You can f...

Send us Fan Mail It's Part Two!! We're kicking off the New Year with a journey into Joyce--namely, Joyce's Ulysses, a perilous tome of a book that has no doubt featured on many a literary nerd's resolution list!  Join Grace and Drew as they explore Dublin, 1904, along with asides about stuffed animals; public, uhhhh, "misbehavior"; and discussions about how much censo...

Send us Fan Mail We're kicking off the New Year with a journey into Joyce--namely, Joyce's Ulysses, a perilous tome of a book that has no doubt featured on many a literary nerd's resolution list!  Join Grace and Drew as they explore Dublin, 1904, along with asides about internet gossip, hidden peeing, and a veritable sea of Joyce's incomparable prose.  Drew's work can be f...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year from Didn't Read It! Continuing our end-of-year Holiday Haunts, I present you with E.F. Benson's "How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery," a tale about dastardly deeds, undead infants, and the importance of not shooting at ghosts.   Thank you SO MUCH for being with us this year!! We'll be back with regular episodes next week, and we hope to...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Holidays from Didn't Read It!  In tribute to the Victorian tradition of reading ghost stories at Christmas, Grace is here to read you a special, spooky holiday story: "Lucky's Grove," by H. R. Wakefield.   A wealthy landowner finds out that his Christmas tree may be a little more than he bargained for, and may have to pay the price for meddling with force...