How Normal Creepers Creep

Published: May 11, 2020, 1 p.m.

b'Quarantine has us creeping up and down the walls, so we\\u2019re turning to some of our favorite women authors of the 19th and 20th centuries and relating to them in whole new ways. We talk about feeling trapped inside the home in \\u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper,\\u201d appreciating life after close encounters with death in "Mrs. Dalloway," and finding a little hope in Emily Dickinson. Mild spoilers for "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."\\n\\nCited in this episode:\\n\\nDickinson, Emily. \\u201c\\u2018Hope\\u2019 is the thing with feathers.\\u2019 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314\\n\\nGilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. \\u201cInfection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the\\nAnxiety of Authorship.\\u201d The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends,\\nedited by David H. Richter, Shorter Third Edition, Bedford/St. Martins, 2016, pp.\\n902-915.\\n\\nKindley, Evan. \\u201cWhy Anxious Readers Under Quarantine Turn to \\u2018Mrs. Daloway.\\u2019\\u201d The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-anxious-readers-under-quarantine-turn-to-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway\\n\\nThe music used in this episode is "Lost Souls" by Portrayal freemusicarchive.org/music/Portraya\\u2026l_-_Lost_Souls used under an attribution license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'