"I don't have a good sense of American history between like the close of World War II and the, and the like McCarthy era," he says. "And so if anybody's listening and has a little more to say about where, because she was an American writer, right? I'm not making that up."
We double-dip a bit in this week's show, reading two short stories and proving that you don't have to have a ton of time to read something thought-provoking. The theme is "female authors writing about controversial-at-the-time ideas," and the stories are The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
One is about a misdiagnosed "hysterical" woman slowly going insane through lack of mental stimulation, one is about a seemingly innocuous small town that is slavishly devoted to its own traditions. Both remain subversive and retain their impact even today.
Oh yeah and we also talk about which grocery store animal mascot would win in a fight.
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