8 - 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

Final Hawthorne for a bit! Alex returns and Kara premiers as we talk about 'The Scarlet Letter' as a the earliest story kids read that's fundamentally about sex, MTV Cribs, cuckold vengeance, and more.

References:

"Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne," C-SPAN, May 2001

https://www.c-span.org/video/?164017-1/writings-nathaniel-hawthorne

Massachusetts Dress Ways: The Puritan Taste for Simple Clothes and “Sadd” Colors, Erenow.com

https://erenow.com/common/fourbritishfolkwaysinamerica1989/26.html

'Cat Person,' New Yorker, December 2017

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

Great Courses: Classics of American Literature