Chapter by Chapter

A two-parter! Eric and Annie discuss the final chapter of Northanger Abbey and the movie adaptation with Carey Mulligan and Rey from Star Wars. We bid goodbye to our sweet puss cinnamon bun Catherine Morland and a number of our former guests send us off as well.

Flannery O'Conner comes on to describe how worshipping the old gods allowed her to avoid unwanted touch by male professors in the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Eric entertains the mushrooms growing in his apartment and Annie eats the cornbread of undoing.

Catherine has been sent back to her childhood home in naught but a hack post-chaise with nary a servant. The Outrage! Annie and Eric spend most of this episode figuring out what a hack post-chaise is, but they also manage to fit in some pornographic speculation about Sauron from LOTR. Stay home and stay safe everyone!

Witness to the bubonic plague, Giovanni Bocaccio, stops by to discuss his works, disease, the ghost Amazon warehouse, and social distancing in the land beyond the vale. In an unexpected twist, our little cinnamon bun, Catherine Morland, all set up to live happily ever after, is expelled from Northanger without even a servant to accompany her home. Trigger warning: offensively bad Italian accent.

Well well well look who comes crawling back to Catherine Morland, begging for her brother back. It's everyone's messy diva Isabella Thorpe! Meanwhile Annie makes a horrifying discovery about doorknobs and Eric sings Cole Porter. Because of Covid-19 we recorded this episode over the phone, and smooshed together our different audio tracks during editing. So if it sounds like we're talking over each other, sorry! We're looking at better ways to record while social distancing. Meanwhile, everyone please stay safe and healthy!

Annie canvasses for Bernie Sanders in the Iowa beyond the veil betwixt life and death, Jane Austen indulges in house porn, and your hosts reveal their many scarecrow-related erotic fantasies.

Alakazam! Anarchist warlock Alan Moore drops by to discuss psychohistorical magic and tell problematic jokes. There's a very English singalong before we get back to Catherine Morland who's quite regained her senses.

Virginia Woolf comes on the pod to explain her blackface episode and divulge the deepest, darkest, kinkiest secrets of John Maynard Keynes. Also Eric attempts to phonebank for the Labour Party and our sweet Catherine Morland has a nutty in the tower room of the eponymous abbey. For this episode, Eric recommends The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/252774/the-memory-police-by-yoko-ogawa/

Not gonna lie, we didn't like this chapter very much. We try to put off talking about how dumb Catherine has gotten by going on long-winded tangents about literature, politics, and regency costume. Then we make a bunch of fart noises. No, seriously. Article: Hilary Davidson, "Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen," in LitHub

Catherine Morland finds a haunted cabinet and is at her most annoying as she fangirls all over Northanger Abbey. Eric and Annie argue CIA funded mid-century literature and pair classical composers with recreational drugs.

*Guitar Squeal* Yeeeeeeeaaaah! Welcome to the most bitchin' power metal Jane Austen book club my tubular lads. On this episode we discuss pointy vaginas and get a visit from an old friend who frankly needs to keep better company. Meanwhile Catherine Moorland opens a box. Seriously. That's it.

Gouty, laudanum guzzling Wilkie Collins drops by to discuss beards and polyamory. Meanwhile, in Austenland, Catherine Morland's got to deal with her crush's lame dad on an awkward road trip to the eponymous abbey.

In which Catherine is maybe just a little too naive at this point. I mean comeon. Meanwhile Annie reveals her necromantic powers over life and death and Eric takes you on a trip to the guy zone.

G.K. Chesterton pops by from beyond the vale to talk about cheese, paradoxes, and how distributism will make every day a ren faire day.

In which Eric and Annie finally get to the point where they mention the actual factual Northanger Abbey for the first time. Meanwhile we discuss a spinoff podcast where we analyze the Witches of (br)Eastwick one minute at a time, and Annie sentences Eric to be tortured by the castle hunchback.

H.P. Lovecraft surprises Annie and Eric by coming out from beyond the vale and having a full on Cthulhu stroke in Annie's living room. Also Catherine Morland, aka Lil Miss Straight Puss Cinnamon Bun, gets chastened by her non-binary beau for her maddening naïveté.

Folks, Annie & Eric are exhausted from dancing all night and partying every day. Plus Eric barely did the reading. Somehow we still scrape together a freakin diamond of an episode complete with Garfield references, starving urchins, and a surprise visit from the landlord to Annie's gothic castle. We're just that good.

We are joined by Julia Alekseyeva: author of Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution and Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode Eric, Annie, and Julia rattle on about three-headed Chihuahuas, gothic manscaping, and the blowjob ellipses...of Victorian novels.

Catherine Morland's adorkability is weaponized and she finally corners her man! Too bad Henry Cool Fox's dad turns out to be a serious skeeze. Eric harmonizes and Annie reveals the secret behind her phantom visitations. Be warned, an attempt at a manifesto is made.

Annie & Eric discuss how maybe the middle ages weren't so bad after all, even after they are menaced by an unfortunately recurring guest. Meanwhile poor Catherine gets her hopes up to see some sick freakin portcullises but is foiled by the weather.

While performing a Regency period dance, Eric and Annie accidentally fold time and space and send bondage monsters after their skeleton friends beyond the vale. Also, Marlene Dietrich stops in for a song and Eric enters the presidential race to confront a burning issue. Write us at chapterbychapter01@gmail.com and tell us about your dancing mishaps. Also let us know which sexy ghost you would most like to hear from on a future episode.

Catherine's plans to meet her arch twee in the pump room is foiled by a dull rattle in a sick gig. Meanwhile your hosts discuss *that guy* (we all have one) and Annie tries to liberate Eric's toilet.

Wherein Eric gets scurvy, Annie comes out as a Bonapartist, and Roland Barthes visits to namesplain and give dating tips. Trigger warning: Jock butts and a chubby handful of John Thorpe.

Poor Catherine must put up with an intolerable bore, just a real basic dude who can't stop talking about his sick ride. Also we interview a spooooky guest who dropped in straight from one of those Gothic novels that young ladies do seem to admire so much. If you have questions please email chapterbychapter01@gmail.com

Catherine Morland and Isabella Thorpe play power games, discuss gothic novels, and check out the man candy in the Pump Room. Also Slavoj Zizek stops by to sing and eat floor hotdogs. If you've got questions or comments email us at chapterbychapter01@gmail.com.

Eric & Annie brace themselves against Jane Austen's full-throated defence of the novel. Annie introduces us to Fudge the Horse, and Eric tries out his baffling and inscrutable pick-up moves.

Wherein Annie and Eric discuss Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Thorpe and all the basic bitches in our lives. Trigger Warning: podcast contains gout-shaming and violence against royal bunnies.

Wherein Eric and Annie discuss safety cravats, moose packing, and regency period pickup artists in Chapter Three of Northanger Abbey.

In which we relate a little too well with the tribulations of the protagonist and the terrible awkward party she has to go to

Annie & Eric start Northanger Abbey, which throws so much shade at the Gothic Romance that we needed infrared goggles to read it