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Alternative Title: Sandwiches of Unknown Origins.
Grab your teabags and butter your crumpets, Claire and Alex go in on Daphne Du Maurier's classic 1938 novel, Rebecca! It's spooky! It's wordy! It's got the most mentions of scones per page in a single text!
Among the topics up for debate are clumsy heroines, justifiable homicides, men named Giles, and the incest taboo (again, for some reason). Alex dubs the nameless narrator 'Elsa' for convenience-TAKE THAT PLOT DEVICE! Claire doesn't let Alex give spoilers for her own novel, 'Begin Again, Again' which you'd think would be the exception to the spoiler rule, but apparently isn't.
If you like people cocking up British accents, you've come to the right place!!!
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Alternative title: Guys, I just wanted to fly whirlybirds :(
Alex and Natasha are a little late to this Royal shitshow, but as Kesha says 'the party don't start 'till I walk in.' Listen as an Australian socialist and an Irish psychologist feel sympathy, horror, anti-colonialist rage,...
Published 04/12/23
Alternative title: The dolls are opiates. And sometimes meth.
Claire and Alex (AKA Eve Dangerfield) are back to discuss the book Alex's mum tried to throw away in the late 2000s, Valley of the Dolls! Jacqueline Susann... really did something with this one.
The girls trace Susann's insights into...
Published 11/30/22