Episode 18: Yellow

“The Yellow-Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the finest short stories written in the English language…hopefully done some justice as read by me.

Collected in:

• The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
• Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings

Academic examination of:

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Quoted in the episode:

• Incest: From a Journal of Love by Anais Nin

  1. Beloved by Toni Morrison

  2. The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard

I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

—Anais Nin

All of the epsiode’s books have been added to the podcast’s Goodreads bookshelf.

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