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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."

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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

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Send us a text Want to help support the show? Buy a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! PART TWO! The holidays are nearly here, and the world is maybe ending, we're not sure! Either way, things are getting kind of stressful!! With that in mind, we're diving into a little escapism, as a treat--take a break from the world and hang out with us in Austen's first-ever novel, "Northanger Abbey"! 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 -Accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Moments for our closing music, "Restless Sleep." Support the show…

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A Bit of Escapism, As A Treat: Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" 1:28:32

38 weeks ago1:28:32

1:28:32

Send us a text Want to help support the show? Buy a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! The holidays are nearly here, and the world is maybe ending, we're not sure! Either way, things are getting kind of stressful!! With that in mind, we're diving into a little escapism, as a treat--take a break from the world and hang out with us in Austen's first-ever novel, "Northanger Abbey"! 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 -Accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Moments for our closing music, "Restless Sleep." Support the show…

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"F*ck Your Truth": Farley Mowat, Ironic Wolf T-Shirts, and Defining Nonfiction 1:15:12

39 weeks ago1:15:12

1:15:12

Send us a text Ty Phelps is with us again, and we're getting to the bottom of 90's ironic wolf tees, what nonfiction really means, and the works & career of controversial Canadian Farley Mowat! We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Mississippi Lightnin' for our closing music, "Rambler Blues." Support the show…

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Mawwiage Story: The Fourth Fragment of "The Canterbury Tales" 1:18:50

40 weeks ago1:18:50

1:18:50

Send us a text Toni, our resident medievalist gal about town, has returned to give us more of that sweet sweet Chaucer content!! In the Fourth Fragment, we're talking Mawwiage: What Bwings Us Togevver, and what tears us apart. Wily Wives and Horrific Husbands abound! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to MusOpen for our closing music, "Medieval Dance Tunes Medly" Support the show…

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The Nerd and the Succubus: "Amore Dure: Passages from the Diary of Spiridion Trepka," by Vernon Lee 59:16

41 weeks ago59:16

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Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Pod bestie Will is back to tell us about Vernon Lee's tale of Italian succubi and academics with no sense of self-preservation! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Dark Hour for our closing music, "Falls." Support the show…

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Italian Witchcraft and a Mad Madonna: Alicia Ramsey's "A Modern Circe" 1:02:24

42 weeks ago1:02:24

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Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Beloved of the show Jessica Camilli ( @Rapid.Eyes , https://rapideyes.art/ ) returns for a tale of witchcraft, transformation, and feminine revenge! Join us as we explore Alicia Ramsey's spellbinding 1919 short story, "A Modern Circe." 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Tiger Grant for our closing music, "Top Dog." Support the show…

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Uterine Fury and Bloodlust: "The White Maniac," by Mary Helene Fortune 58:17

43 weeks ago58:17

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Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! It's a bloody good time with our official Vampire Correspondent, Galen, as we help ourselves to Mary Helene Fortune's delicious tale of forbidden appetites and uterine fury, "The White Maniac." 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Moments for our closing music, "Haunted Romance." Support the show…

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Undead Trad Wives: "The Nature of the Evidence," by May Sinclair 1:09:42

44 weeks ago1:09:42

1:09:42

Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Frisky flappers and undead trad wives abound in May Sinclair's "The Nature of the Evidence"--join Grace & new pal of the pod Benjamin Braman as they explore this tale of ghostly marital trouble and a hauntingly bad time in bed. If you'd like more of Benjamin, check him out on Instagram @drjamin!! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Material Gurl for our closing music, "Ghoul's Night Out." Support the show…

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Volume Three - Mary Shelley's Prophetic Apocalypse: "The Last Man." 1:38:52

45 weeks ago1:38:52

1:38:52

Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Mary Shelley: the gothic queen of our hearts, the immortal creator of Frankenstein herself. But what about the time she decided to end the world? Join Grace and Maddie Wood as they explore VOLUME TWO of Mary Shelley's "The Last Man," the first piece of modern apocalypse fiction and a wild ride of betrayal, politics, and plague! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to JCar for our closing music, "The Hunted." Support the show…

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Volume Two - Hamster Wheel of Doom: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" 1:25:15

46 weeks ago1:25:15

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Volume One - From Frankenstein to the End of the World: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" 1:20:16

47 weeks ago1:20:16

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Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! Mary Shelley: the gothic queen of our hearts, the immortal creator of Frankenstein herself. But what about the time she decided to end the world? Join Grace and Maddie Wood as they explore Mary Shelley's "The Last Man," the first piece of modern apocalypse fiction and a wild ride of betrayal, politics, and plague! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to JCar for our closing music, "The Hunted." Support the show…

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Pt 2! Be Gay Do Crime: The Crossdressing Jacobean Antics of "The Roaring Girl" 1:14:13

48 weeks ago1:14:13

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Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! It's Part Two! We're doing queer crimes! We're learning about Jacobean moral panics! We're all falling head over heels for Moll Cutpurse! Join us for our gayest & most double-entendre-laden episode yet as we explore Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's 1611 cross-dressing farce, "The Roaring Girl"! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Wicked Cinema for our closing music, "Kings and Queens." Support the show…

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Be Gay Do Crime: The Crossdressing Jacobean Antics of "The Roaring Girl" - Part One 1:37:36

49 weeks ago1:37:36

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Send us a text We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! We're doing queer crimes! We're learning about Jacobean moral panics! We're all falling head over heels for Moll Cutpurse! Join us for our gayest & most double-entendre-laden episode yet as we explore Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's 1611 cross-dressing farce, "The Roaring Girl"! 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Wicked Cinema for our closing music, "Kings and Queens." Support the show…

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Cruising in the Catacombs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" 1:15:00

50 weeks ago1:15:00

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Send us a text WE ARE BACK for SEASON TWO!!!! We HAVE MERCH! Help support the show with a rad shirt or mug or sticker!!! We're drinking a fine vintage! We're cruising in the catacombs! We're being baited into questionable decisions by our own egos! Join us and pal of the pod Michael Smith as we discuss Poe's chilling revenge tale "The Cask of Amontillado," and help us kick season two off with a (sinister) bang! XOXO 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 academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books 2.0" -Thankful to Cody Martin for our closing music, "Royal Catacombs." Support the show…

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A Hauntingly Good Special: Plot Me Baby One More Time, Summer Edition 1:13:42

1 year ago1:13:42

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Send us a text Season One has drawn, more or less, to a close! We'll be posting intermittently for the rest of July & August, and then be back with SEASON TWO in September! In the meanwhile, here's some silly nonsense for your summer enjoyment. Back soon! <3 Support the show

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Blackmail, Gay Besties, and Too Much Hand Licking: The Triumphant Conclusion of Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck" 1:33:18

1 year ago1:33:18

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Send us a text 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 @didntreadit on Instagram & Twitter -Accepting nemesis applications at didntreaditpod@gmail.com -Accepting academic scrutiny at didntreaditpod.com -Thankful to Black Iris Social Club for use of their beautiful space -Thankful to William Albritton for our incredible theme song, "Books" -Thankful to Shimmer for our closing music, "Storyteller." Support the show…

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Attempted Himbo Murder, Carriage Scandal, and More Bridgerton Inspiration: Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck," Part Two 1:09:59

1 year ago1:09:59