Lost Ladies of Lit
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. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
Lost Ladies of Lit
Latest Episodes
ENCORE: Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson
We're concluding our own "Hot Girl Summer" with the writer Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored the “kind devil” to deliver her from a life of bourgeois bo...
"What's My Line?" (Lost Ladies Edition)
An erstwhile game show contestant (once trounced by Ken Jennings), Amy always enjoys a good guessing game. Join her for this week’s bonus episode as she adds a bit of game-show flair to bookish quotations attributable to some obscure (and some ...
ENCORE WITH UPDATE: Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
If Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz drifting from a smoky cafe, the hum of a Vespa on narrow cobblestone streets … and the obnoxious griping...
Reading Vs. Meditation
Can reading provide the same health benefits and mental clarity that meditation does? Is a library card as conducive to one’s well-being as time spent in the lotus position? Amy considers the question in this week’s bonus episode, and if you ag...
ENCORE: Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
Our "sweltering summer" series continues this week with a re-play of a truly wild desert-island memoir. When Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a real-life Robinson Crusoe on a remote tropical island, she embarked on an...