59. G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Our guest Brad Bigelow’s obsession with obscure books was celebrated in the 2016 New Yorker profile “The Custodian of Forgotten Books.” He joins us to discuss groundbreaking, but now forgotten, English novelist G.E. Trevelyan and her wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia.
Discussed in this episode:
Appius and Virginia by G.E. Trevelyan
Every Which Way But Loose (1978 Film)
“The Custodian of Forgotten Books” (The New Yorker)
His Monkey Wife by John Collier
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
“If She Was a Bloke, She’d Still Be In Print” (The Guardian)
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