In part 2 of our deep dive into Zora Neale Hurston's life, we finally talk about zombies! Plus her success as a novelist, that time she was arrested on horrifying criminal charges, and her later career.   Source material: Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, by Valerie Boyd; Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir, by Zora Neale Hurston.   Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam Clawson, for our Correspondence...

Gather round, children, for the story of one of the coolest ladies in literary history.   Zora Neale Hurston was born with a thirst for adventure and the confidence to conquer the world, even though at the start of the 1900s, to be both black and a woman seemed a formidable barrier to overcome.   But it didn’t take long for her to make her mark on the world as both a writer during the Harlem Renaissance (her most popular novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God), and an anthropologist, studying...

"Alice in Wonderland" is one of the most-loved children's books of all time, Hannah and Tyler try very hard to talk about it, but find themselves wandering onto new topics, cause this a chill episode! Hannah read: "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" by Jenny Wolff Tyler read: "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam Clawson, for our...

Tyler sits down and chats with poet and Author Vincent Blaison. His beautiful collection of poems takes you through his journey of finding love, battling self, letting go of the past and ultimately finding his faith in God.  If you like to pick it up, check out https://a.co/d/00DiMeW

It's ok, This is still the Between Lewis and Lovecraft Feed. But Tyler's taking over for a bit. This week he shares and episode from his new Newsletter Podcast, A Bit Much: With T.W. Clawson.  You can support Tyler by Buying his new book, Joining his Patreon and joining his newsletter. All can be achieved through his website, TWClawson.com

"Alice in Wonderland" is one of the most-loved children's books of all time, but how much do you know about its creator, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll)? As it turns out, a big part of Carroll's life is so embroiled in controversy that Tyler didn't even have to make up a conspiracy theory about the author.  Hannah read: "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" by Jenny Wolff Tyler read: "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" by Robert...

We're back from a long nap. Hope you enjoy.    Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam Clawson, for our Correspondence Remix: https://soundcloud.com/camclawson7 Follow us on Instagram: @lewisandlovecraft @twclawson_pdx @thehannahray Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LewisandLovecraft/ Website: https://lewislovecraft.weebly.com/ Email: [email protected]

Aaron Hurst: Field of Trees  A note from the author: Fun facts... First, I wrote Tick Tick around five years ago. A Field of Trees is the first story I've written since Tick Tick, and I am happy to have written this new one for BL&L. Thank you, for the first time ever I kept a new years resolution. Please give thanks to my Glittery Space Angel of a wife for being my editor. Also, more fun facts... I lived on a Christmas tree farm for a few years as a teenager. I'll stand by these...

If Mary Shelley's life were a book, you'd put it down because it sounds too dramatic and tragic to be believable. By her mid-20s, the creator of "Frankenstein" had run off with a poet, been disowned by her family, lost four children, published a literary masterpiece, and been widowed. Tyler and Hannah spend far too much time ragging on Mary's husband, and Tyler has quite the theory about the deeper meaning behind "Frankenstein." Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song:...

Madi Mullen is the Product Manager of Libro.fm She joins both Hannah and Tyler to talk about books, audiobook, Libro.FM and living in the Pacific Northwest.  If you want to support small businesses, and this podcast, you can go to this link https://tidd.ly/3BDh4Ul to get two free books and help our little show keep going.  Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam Clawson, for our Correspondence Remix: https://soundcloud.com/camclawson7...

Tyler and Hannah have been having a couple hectic weeks, but we're here to bond over our disappointment with "Go Set A Watchman," the book that was marketed as a sequel to Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird." Tyler bravely disavows racism, Hannah reiterates the necessity of hiring a good editor, and neither one of us can decide whether to recommend reading this book or not.   We also have an exciting announcement!   https://tidd.ly/3BDh4Ul   Submissions for the Halloween flash fiction...

Harper Lee was living the dream in the early 1960s. The first novel she had ever written had been published, become a bestseller, and been awarded the Pulitzer Prize all within a year. Almost overnight she had gone from an anonymous Alabaman to one of the most influential American authors in history. So why, then, didn’t this promising young writer publish anything else after “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Hannah and Tyler examine Lee’s incredible rise to prominence and her withdrawal from the...

Mason Allen is an author who has published several novels which you can find here: Rebellion: The Departure (The Rebellion Arc Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RZ45VS3/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_gl_AMAQJAVNEPNE54RAP4ZH   And has recently released several Dungeons and Dragons supplements that allow the players to choose new classes. You can follow that journey as well as his blog at www.mrmasonallan.com Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam...

Hannah and Tyler get off topic early and often in this month’s chill episode. But we do try to talk a little more about Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes adaptations we like and the ones we don’t, and how the mystery genre has changed since Doyle’s time. And we’re surprised and delighted by a poetry submission from longtime friend of the podcast, Bradley Botts.   Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam Clawson, for our...

Patrick Perini Writer, lover of fantasy, and the co-creator of the actual play podcast; Unbalanced Encounters. This conscientious Dungeon Master, with an unhealthy addiction for the theatrics, carries with him a strong belief that stories are what help us find each other and is constantly on the lookout for the next exciting and thought provoking story to tell. You can find him on TikTok @pcperini_ and see his work at www.unbalancedencounters.com Emily Greymoore Voice Actor, lover of creepy...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for creating the iconic character of Sherlock Holmes. But as Hannah and Tyler discovered, Doyle led a wild life even before penning the novel that would bring him fame. Thank you to Jake Bassen for our theme song: https://soundcloud.com/jakebassen As well as Cam Clawson, for our Correspondence Remix: https://soundcloud.com/camclawson7 Follow us on Instagram: @lewisandlovecraft @twclawson_pdx @thehannahray Facebook:...

Tyler and Hannah took Between Lewis & Lovecraft to the Through the Looking Glass arts festival in Canby last month, recording interviews with several independently published authors. We talked with them about their work, writing process, what made them decide to go the independent publishing route, and more.   Back in their respective studios, Hannah and Tyler end the episode with another round of 1-Star Reviews of Books We've Talked About on the Show and Tyler does.... not as well as he...

William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright of all time, but his life is largely a mystery. No one wrote about his life when he was alive, and he left few (if any) personal writings and letters behind for historians to study. But Tyler and Hannah still found plenty to discuss during this episode, including Shakespeare's dad's fall from societal grace after being caught trafficking one very controversial material, Shakespeare's marriage to Anne Hathaway, and of course speculation that...

We just chillin'! Talking more about Brandon Sanderson, mainly focusing on his Laws of Magic. We end the episode with a new game where Hannah reads truly scathing reviews of books we've talked about on the show and Tyler has to guess the book.   And Tyler’s fantasy sitcom “The Penny Lich” is out now! Order it online wherever books are sold (might we suggest our friends at The Book Nook?) and subscribe to Tyler’s newsletter so you don’t miss the next story in the...

  When Robert Jordan died in 2007, he left the beloved epic fantasy series “The Wheel of Time” incomplete. But a moving eulogy written by emerging fantasy author Brandon Sanderson caught the attention of Jordan’s widow, Harriet McDougal. After reading just a couple chapters of Sanderson’s novel “Mistborn,” McDougal knew she’d found the author to finish her husband’s series. But before Sanderson finished one of the biggest fantasy series of the 21st century, he considered giving up on...

Robert Jordan — How the Wheel of Time Creator Became an Icon of the Fantasy Genre James Oliver Rigney Jr. (better known by his pen name Robert Jordan) is best known for his breakout fantasy series "The Wheel of Time," which breathed new life into a genre that had grown somewhat stale since Tolkien took the scene by storm decades earlier. But before he wrote the several million words that would become his legacy, Rigney/Jordan served in Vietnam, became a nuclear engineer, and had a near-death...

Tyler's Back, Wheel of Time, and Why Hannah Struggles So Hard With High Fantasy Tyler is officially back in the studio after taking a few months off to be with his wife and new son. And Hannah is relieved, to say the least. Both of us need more time to prep for the next couple of episodes which will cover the lives of fantasy authors Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, but we wanted to check in, offer a preview of the upcoming episodes, and discuss fantasy as a genre (and some of its main...

Dan Brown is the author of the bestselling Robert Langdon series, which follows a Harvard professor of symbology who must solve clues and codes in a race against the clock in each installment. Perhaps most famous is "The Da Vinci Code," Brown's first bestselling novel and the one that drew the ire of the Catholic Church. But as Hannah, Tyler, and special guest cohost Aly Fitzgerald learned, Brown's religious views are much more complicated than the prevailing narrative would have you...

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is one of Russia's most acclaimed writers. His most famous novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Although Dostoevsky created many works that were celebrated even within his lifetime, his life was anything but easy. He became orphaned as a teenager, was exiled to Siberia for reading banned materials, and struggled with disastrous spending habits that nearly lost him a decade of his work. Tyler is still on hiatus so...