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February 25, 2022 41 mins

Marlon & Jake are back to discuss the most indelible and powerful female characters—those written by dead female authors and those written by dead male authors. From Sula Peace to the Wife of Bath, Scout Finch to Janie Crawford—these two gentleman celebrate some of literature’s most ferocious, complicated, guileless, unrepentant and commanding women.

  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Double Indemnity by James Cain
  • There Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • Kindred Octavia Butler
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
  • Sula by Toni Morrison
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