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We desperately needed extra research and editing time, so this week we're presenting PLOT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME: An Extremely Serious and Well-Produced Episode. 

We will be back next week with your regular programming--we love you all!
XOXO

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Old men yelling at clouds! Sweeping away Bad Architecture! Building suspiciously homogenous alternate worlds! Ty and Grace are exploring Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow this week, and more specifically, diving into "The Repairer of Reputations," Chambers' tale of madness, cursed fiction, and a real bummer alternate version of New York in 1920. 

You can find more of Ty and his work at https://www.typhelps.com/ or on Instagram @phelpsty! 

As ALWAYS, you can find more information and sources at didntreaditpod.com. You can EMAIL US with requests for books, nemesis applications, or just to say hi at [email protected]. You can find us on Instagram @didntreadit. We would love to hear from you! 

Closing credits music this week is "King's Feast," by Wicked Cinema. It just had the right **vibe,** IMHO.

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It's Part Two!!
We're kicking off the New Year with a journey into Joyce--namely, Joyce's Ulysses, a perilous tome of a book that has no doubt featured on many a literary nerd's resolution list! 
Join Grace and Drew as they explore Dublin, 1904, along with asides about stuffed animals; public, uhhhh, "misbehavior"; and discussions about how much censorship has, and hasn't, changed. 

Drew's work can be found at The Auricular (http://www.theauricular.com/author/drewnecci/) and you can follow her on Instagram @annihilatethisweek or on Patreon at www.patreon.com/marilyndrewnecci. 

This week's closing credit music is "Red Hot Mama," by Liberty, which felt like a ditty in the spirit of Molly Bloom. 

As always, you can find us @didntreadit on Instagram, which is where we do most of our posting! Nemeses can apply, or listeners can reach out, at [email protected]. Our website is didntreaditpod.com, which I swear I do remember to update sometimes. 

XOXO 

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We're kicking off the New Year with a journey into Joyce--namely, Joyce's Ulysses, a perilous tome of a book that has no doubt featured on many a literary nerd's resolution list! 
Join Grace and Drew as they explore Dublin, 1904, along with asides about internet gossip, hidden peeing, and a veritable sea of Joyce's incomparable prose. 

Drew's work can be found at The Auricular (http://www.theauricular.com/author/drewnecci/) and you can follow her on Instagram @annihilatethisweek or on Patreon at www.patreon.com/marilyndrewnecci. 

This week's closing credit music is "Red Hot Mama," by Liberty, which felt like a ditty in the spirit of Molly Bloom. 

As always, you can find us @didntreadit on Instagram, which is where we do most of our posting! Nemeses can apply, or listeners can reach out, at [email protected]. Our website is didntreaditpod.com, which I swear I do remember to update sometimes. 

XOXO 

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Happy New Year from Didn't Read It!

Continuing our end-of-year Holiday Haunts, I present you with E.F. Benson's "How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery," a tale about dastardly deeds, undead infants, and the importance of not shooting at ghosts.  

Thank you SO MUCH for being with us this year!! We'll be back with regular episodes next week, and we hope to see you there!

XOXO
-Grace

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Happy Holidays from Didn't Read It! 
In tribute to the Victorian tradition of reading ghost stories at Christmas, Grace is here to read you a special, spooky holiday story: "Lucky's Grove," by H. R. Wakefield.  

A wealthy landowner finds out that his Christmas tree may be a little more than he bargained for, and may have to pay the price for meddling with forces he didn't understand. Published in 1940, Wakefield's tale offers a bit of a pagan twist (with very gentle Lovecraftian undertones, IMHO) on the traditional Christmas ghost story.

Thanks so much for being with us this far, and if story time isn't your thing, never fear! We'll be back with regular episodes in January. 

XOXO 

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We're BACK with more Scrooge, more Muppet references, and some very important commiseration about the truly frightening costume designs for one particular spirit. Like the last episode, this is a bit more of a sprawling conversation, a little less structured than our usual episodes, but we hope you'll join the party!! 

Extra special love to all our service industry folks out there--may you all stay safe & sane over the holidays!

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Light the lamp, not the rat, light the LAMP, NOT THE RAT!
The holidays are beginning at Didn't Read It! 
Grace rounded up her besties--Jess, Galen, & Leigh--to talk about Charles Dickens' beloved, oft-adapted novella "A Christmas Carol," especially the aspects of the story that don't usually make it onto stage or screen. 
Much like our Halloween special, this is a more sprawling, less structured conversation than our usual episodes--like being at a cocktail party while you do your dishes or (sigh) finish your commute. We hope you'll join us!

As always, more info can be found at didntreaditpod.com, and you can email us at [email protected]. All we want for Christmas is a nemesis!!
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We're prowling through the text of Jane Rice's prescient and darkly funny short story, "The Refugee." This oft-anthologized short story is sometimes billed as the tale of an ingenue outwitting sinister forces in war-torn France... but we think there's a little more to the story. 

As ALWAYS, you can find sources, notes, and a list of all our episodes at didntreaditpod.com! You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram @didntreadit. You can email us to say hey, suggest works you'd like us to cover, or apply to be our nemesis at [email protected]. 

Our closing music for this episode is "Balade du Soir," by Rêves Français. Grace really wanted to use "Le Chant des Partisans," but couldn't find a licensable version. 

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We've seen what happens to the Ministry of Brains, but what does it all mean??? Join us as we dive back into the world of "What Not," pick through some of the knottier elements of Macaulay's world building, and talk about where we see domestic science fiction narratives and dystopias in contemporary fiction! 

As always, sources and other information can be found at didntreaditpod.com. You can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or BlueSky(!) @didntreadit, or you can STILL apply to be our nemesis at [email protected]. We're waiting!!

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