Apple TV Plus show Dickinson’s creator Alena Smith joins us to talk about Emily Dickinson, the weird American 1850s and transcendentalist author rivalries and fun facts (Edgar Allan Poe was VERY catty and also married his own underage cousin). Then we get into current American history, taking on the modern conspiracy we’ve all been thinking and talking about constantly this year! Plus we answer some Night Calls, and talk about everyone’s favorite viral meme: long Russian novels about class war!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Crazy Days and Nights
2. Vanity Fair profile of Enty
3. Pouring one out for a Himmmm 
4. Night Callers facebook group
5. Twilight Zone movie deaths
6. Alena's book, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails 
7. Dickinson on Apple Plus TV 
8. Alena on Girls in Hoodies
9. Thoreau's mom did his laundry
10. Dickinson costumes article
11. Prairie dresses: don't do it
12. Yankee Doodle macaroni
13. Poe hated Transcendentalists
14. Poe and his cousin
15. Headless horseman Hessian soldier 
16. Epstein was murdered?
17. Mark Epstein 
18. 1953 boomer trust
19. Ghislaine's father/Mossad
20. Epstein's front door 
21. Epstein theories merch 
22. Night Call Patreon
23. Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast

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