On the first episode of the new year, Mabel and Madeline consider the tortoise and discuss the sweatshirtification of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. We go deep on Prussian Blue, Japanese wood-block printing and its influence on the history of modern painting. Listen, like, rate, subscribe, share, love, kiss kiss, bang bang.

HAPPY NEW YEAR LOVERS <3

Madeline & Mabel

This week Madeline and Mabel read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and discuss Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation for Netflix. We ask and answer the big questions about AI, monsters, pregnancy, and whether Oscar Isaac is hot. Until next time <3

This week on 1-800-1800, Madeline guides us through the horrifying world of early 19th century meat batteries and an experiment to raise a malefactor hanged at newgate prison from the dead. Listen for all the facts on nicotine enemas, the “apparently” drowned, and an alternative reality where frogs legs were a necessary component of consumer electronics.

<3 AS ALWAYS,

Madeline & Mabel

This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel and Madeline discuss their new book Elsie Venner with a VERY special guest: Mabel’s dad!! David, a psychiatrist in practice for over thirty years, joins the girls to discuss the novel and help answer the question that preoccupies the characters in the book: What the hell is wrong with Elsie? Tune in for Freud, theology, an…

Today a man told me that pugs are “inherently naked” and now I can’t think about anything else for long enough to write an episode description. I hope you listen to the podcast anyway, it’s a doozy <3

Mabel and Madeline

In this special episode of 1-800-1800, the Mandylion girls discuss, debate, and fawn over their new book, The Hill of Dreams! Welcome to the Mandylion Book Club. Let this episode guide and inspire you on this journey through Arthur Machen’s singular novel, about a young man named Lucian Taylor trying (and failing?) to become a great writer. The book can…

This week’s episode goes out to our book designer Emily and her HUSBAND Jerónimo. They inspired this deep dive into the most important wedding of the 19th century: Victoria & Albert’s!!! We talk about the music, menu, and outfits that went into this event, and also discuss the gnarly diarrhea that Albert had when he first met Victoria. We also discuss incest. TW. hehe xoxo

Hey beautiful people! 1-800-1800 is back with this month’s bonus episode featuring THE MORGESONS!! Herein we discuss the best book ever written, published originally in 1862 by Elizabeth Stoddard, and revived this year by Mandylion Press. The Morgesons is a caustic bildungsroman about a girl named Cassandra and her weird sister Veronica. The sisters fig…

1-800-1800 is back baby. This month Mabel and Madeline talk about everything in 1865 except for the death of Abraham Lincoln. That means we’re talking refrigerated fish. We’re talking the audacity of ice cream. We’re talking Manet. We’re talking bop houses. We’re talking dog cremations. Get in there, girl!

This episode of 1-800-1800 is SPECIAL. Instead of tackling one year of the long nineteenth century, we spend an hour discussing one single mediocre film: The Substance!!!! Inspired by our recent edition of One or Two, we discuss the body, body horror, “back vaginas,” and whether or not Demi Moore was robbed.