Nudie Reads

Boris Karloff, Hollywood superstar of Frankenstein and The Mummy was, off camera, an English gent and a foodie. His recipe for guacamole is an annual internet sensation around Halloween coming from the short news report of an unknown but skilled newspaper writer. 🇬🇧🎭👨‍🍳📰✍️🇲🇽 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast:...

Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy over 700 years ago: an epic poem of a journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Can a 13th century epic poem still be enjoyable today? Can it still be relevant? Absolutely. Great writing endures. 🇮🇹🏰✍️👹😰😇 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudieread...

In 1982 'God's Banker' was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London. While an Inquest found suicide (later overturned) many believed it was murder including a British journo Paul Foot. His cheeky column on the subject is great hack writing. 🇬🇧📰🗞✍️😵🇮🇹 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nu...

Wilkie Collins was a gout ridden laudanum addict and great friend of Charles Dickens. He had some odd ideas about marriage but he was a gifted writer of mysteries and tales of suspense and his short story about a bed is one of the greats - a classic.🇬🇧🤢💉✍️🛏 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nu...

Harry Houdini wrote a book debunking spiritualism and mediums. It is filled with precise, polite yet brutal takedowns. The Handcuff King who left school at 8 wasn't just the world's greatest escapologist - pace David Copperfield - he was a wise man and a gifted writer.  🇭🇺🇺🇸⛓💦👀 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Pod...

Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow from 1819 remains a beloved spooky fun story 200 years later. He knew New York State better than most, even wrote a biography of NY. But he's best loved for the Headless Horseman - great writing and a perfect October listen.🇺🇸💀🐎🎃 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: htt...

Joan of Arc should never have been tried for heresy, much less found guilty and burned at the stake. What does it take to overturn a sham trial? 20 years and very blunt language that obliterates the past. Great writing from 15th century Rouen, France. 🇫🇷😇 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudie...

Oscar Wilde's children's stories were heavy on sorrow and emotion - not the usual modern childhood fare. As with all his writing, though, they are great literary works including the deceptively titled Happy Prince. 👑🐦💎💔 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispod...

Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist and he didn't like junk science or junk scientists. In 1974 he gave a commencement address to Caltech graduates telling them not to be junk. Great words from the 1970s.  🇺🇸🔬🎓👍🚫👎 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: h...

Jane Austen is an English literature giant. Her second novel Pride & Prejudice is 🐐 of romance and an astute social observation of manners and marriage and class. It's not chick lit. It's truly great lit. 👦👧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰💷🥰💍 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://rate...

Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense film-making. Psycho, anyone? 😱 He understood fear and the secret pleasure of it. And in 1949 he wrote about it. Great writing from a visual genius. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🎥🇺🇸😵‍💫 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispodcast.com/nu...

The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first spy-espionage manhunt thriller novel. Scotsman John Buchan was a gifted writer whose best-known work published 1915 introduced gentleman adventurer and foiler of dastardly plots, Richard Hannay. Bond before Bond. And just as much fun. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧥🗡🏃👁 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podc...

Crosswords as we know them may have been invented in 1913 but the word square pre-dates them and the Rotas Square - Rotas-Opera-Tenet-Arepo-Sator - is the source. Created anonymously its history is described by an anonymous newspaper columnist in 1929. Great writing of the 20th century about an ancient puzzle. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇹✍️🤔✝️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads...

Herbert George Wells - H.G Wells - published The War of the Worlds about an invasion from Mars in 1897. In 2021 we are on Mars as know the red planet is not filled with being plotting to kill us but that does not detract one bit from this sci fi literature classic. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖👽🌍🚀 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcas...

In 1381 King Richard II of England, after a pandemic, found the peasants revolting and he delivered the shortest rebuke of his own citizens in history. Thankfully Benedictine Monk Thomas Walsingham was there to record the words so we can read them in 2021. Great writing, brutal expression of contempt. Sound familiar in 2021? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👑👷‍♂️🥺🗯😵 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https...

Abraham Stoker, of Dublin, Ireland wrote a gothic horror classic, "Dracula" in 1897. It didn't make him famous or rich in his lifetime, but as we all know about vampires - they live a very long time. Dracula has never been out of print for over 120 years. A much loved tale of blood and terror. 🇮🇪🩸🧛‍♂️🐺🏰 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: insta...

What do Star Trek and 19th century science fiction writer Jules Verne's 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' have in common? Spock. The original Spock from the 1960s cult classic Star Trek tv series - Leonard Nimoy - loved Verne and he exercised his Vulcan Mind-meld trick, and his gift for writing, in a charming afterword/biography of Verne's book. 🇺🇸🖖🚀🌎🎯 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail....

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotsman, only lived for 44 years but he left us with The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and for that we should all be ever grateful. A brilliant writer with a terrifying tale of something worse than split personality. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩺😇👹✍️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://...

Unity Mitford, one of the Mitford Sisters of British high society - or Bobo as they called her - fell head over heels in love with Hitler. She used to sign off her letters "Heil Hitler, Love Bobo". On 18 March 1939 she had a page of the Daily Mirror newspaper to put her case for the Fuhrer. Great writing. Impoverished thinking. 🇬🇧👸💰🤪👎 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://abou...

Agatha Christie wrote the best selling mystery book of all time when she wrote And Then Were None. More than 100m sales and still going strong. Whodunnit? Match wits with Agatha, the original Girl Boss ... with a gift for criminal thinking. 🇬🇧🙌👧✍️🪢🔪💊 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudier...

Joseph Grimaldi was England's beloved clown sensation. People laughed til they cried at his antics. And for one month he wowed them in 2 separate theatres every night. If only he had a clown car. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤡🎭🫖🇮🇹 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

William Shakespeare is the G.O.A.T. 38 plays and over 150 sonnets, all of them quotable and deeply moving. While "Et Tu, Brute?" is probably not original to him, the rest of the play Julius Caesar is. Marc Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral definitely is. It's a triumph of sorrow and anger.  🇬🇧🐐❤️😡😞 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: inst...

Why is St Valentine's Day associated with romantic love? Could the kooky Roman festival of Lupercalia have been the inspiration? Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Lives of the Saints, won't say in his word perfect entry on St Valentine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖📿♥️🐺 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nu...

Mrs H.R Haweis wrote Chaucer for Children: The Golden Key in 1877 for her little boy Lionel. A Victorian scholar, writer, painter, illustrator and women's vote advocate Mary Eliza Haweis was a prolific author who could make even crusty old 14th century Chaucer a fascinating subject and a reader's delight. 🇬🇧⛪️🍻👣 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagra...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley knew her monsters. She was beloved as the author of Frankenstein. But she was also beloved as a skilled researcher and historian. She authored 5 volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia all about famed men of science and literature. Her entry on Galileo and his the monstrous trial by the Inquisition at Rome in 1633 is a masterpiece. 🇬🇧😈🇮🇹🔭⛪️🍷 Get in touch: Email: nu...