144 episodes
Lost Ladies of Lit Amy Helmes & Kim Askew
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5.0 • 51 Ratings
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A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.
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Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life with Nava Atlas
The gorgeous book Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life mines the life and musings of famous women authors on subjects such as finding your literary voice, conquering inner demons, dealing with rejection and how to deal with writer’s block. Joining us for this week’s mini is the book’s author, Nava Atlas.
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Miriam Karpilove — Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love with Jessica Kirzane
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, Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, and Bridget Jones. Guest Jessica Kirzane’s English translation of the novel was published by Syracuse University Press in 2020.
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Hard-Knock Life Memoirs
Sometimes the most fraught journey is simply making it to adulthood. In this week’s mini, we talk about authors who survived unusual and/or traumatic childhoods and used their experiences to write engrossing, and often healing, works of art.
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The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa
Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet were it not for a renewed push by author Alice Walker in the 1970s, Hurston and her legacy might well have been lost. We have Melissa Kiguwa, host of The Idealists podcast, joining us to discuss Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.
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Nora Ephron’s Heartburn Turns 40
In this week’s mini, we discuss Nora Ephron’s 1983 autobiographical novel Heartburn, inspired by the breakdown of her marriage with journalist Carl Bernstein. Plus Amy tries out some of the book’s recipes on her unsuspecting family.
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Ursula Parrott — Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
This is the Jazz Age novel we should have read in high school! Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife was an instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, and it’s inspired by her own experience as a young divorcée and flapper in New York. Guest Marsha Gordon’s new biography of Parrott, Becoming the Ex-Wife, arrives in bookstores at the same time as a reissue of the dazzling novel from McNally Editions.
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Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Becoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha Gordon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sigmund Freud
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna Scutts
The Divorcee (1930 Film)
Norma Shearer
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Customer Reviews
Captivating and Enlightening!
Lost Ladies of Lit is a remarkable treasure for anyone who appreciates literature, art, and untold stories of women writers! From the moment you press play, Kim and Amy take you on an immersive, thorough journey into the lives and works of these authors who have been neglected by history.
What A Find
I’m just listening for the first time and I’m enjoying so much everything about this podcast. Just heard Ursula Parrott story and I ordered Ex-Wife and the biography too. I’m in Montana and will be sharing newly found and now adored podcast. Thank you too for your interest and intelligent conversations about literature by female authors.
Book-Nerd Heaven
A bite-sized dollop of treasures I look forward to every week, Lost Ladies of Lit is my second favorite pastime next to reading, and the only podcast I listen to … and wait anxiously for … each week. Equal parts peeks into the writers’ lives (just the good bits) and their best books, with cool insights from uber-passionate academics sprinkled throughout, LLL is a must-hear for anyone who loves literature and juicy details about great authors and books of decades past. The novelty that the focus is on women authors—and that there are so many besides Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters—is only made better by two hosts who are non-snobby hoots geeking out on books and writers as much as your best wine-swilling book club pal might. Highly recommend.