Lost Ladies of Lit

Amy Helmes & Kim Askew

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Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg

12/9/2025 • 55 min

Send us a text Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T.S. Eliot, a bit bewildered. Guest Margaret Vandenburg, an expert in modernism, post-modernism and gender studies, joins us to illuminate Barnes’s tumultuous life and help us decipher her "ultimate breakup novel,” a … Play episode

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Radclyffe Hall — The Well of Loneliness with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death with Mimi Pond
HIATUS ENCORE: Miriam Karpilove with Jessica Kirzane
HIATUS ENCORE: Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
HIATUS ENCORE: Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Edna O'Brien — The Country Girls with Edan Lepucki
Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
Jessie Redmon Fauset — Plum Bun with Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa End…
E.D.E.N. Southworth — The Hidden Hand with Rose Neal
ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
Angela Carter — The Bloody Chamber
Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacK…
Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust
Katharine S. White — Shaping The New Yorker, with Amy Reading
Literary Jewelry with Leigh Batnick Plessner
Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass
Hiatus Replay: Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song
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Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie
Margaret Drabble — The Millstone with Carrie Mullins
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Eliza Haywood — The Female Spectator and Betsy Thoughtless with Kelly J. P…
Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson
HIATUS ENCORE: M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman
Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler
HIATUS ENCORE: Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser
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Elaine May — Miss May Does Not Exist with Carrie Courogen
Kim and Amy Catch Their Book Breath
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Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal
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