Announcing Hot and Bothered Season Three: On Eyre
Hot and Bothered
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Fact 1: Vanessa Zoltan has been the host of this romance novel themed podcast for almost two years now.
Fact 2: Vanessa Zoltan is a Jane Eyre evangelist. She’s literally written the book on Jane Eyre.
Fact 3: Vanessa has somehow never talked about Jane Eyre on this podcast???
Finally, we’ve come to our senses and one of life’s biggest contradictions is getting sorted. Coming June 1st 2021, our newest season--- Hot and Bothered: On Eyre. Vanessa will be joined by the brilliant journalist Lauren Sandler, and together with experts they’ll read through Charlotte Bronte’s seminal work and explore the questions and themes that emerge. If you want to read along, we’ll be starting with Chapters 1-4. Grab your SPF and your library card. This summer, we’re On Eyre.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, it's Vanessa. I'm sure many of you know we have decided to stop recording |
| 0:05.2 | Twilight and quarantine. A, hopefully quarantine is ending. And B, we found Twilight to |
| 0:10.2 | be grading to our souls. So we've decided to put it down. We have one more episode where |
| 0:15.2 | we're doing a whole book review on Breaking Dawn, but that's it. There'll be Patreon |
| 0:19.2 | perks and that's all. And we thought, after reading the worst romance novels I've ever |
| 0:25.4 | read, why not read the best romance novel I've ever read? So we are going to engage with |
| 0:31.5 | Jane Eyre. The Hot and Bothered Feed is supposed to be a place where we're really celebrating |
| 0:36.0 | romance novels, thinking through all the gifts romance novels can give us. So we are |
| 0:40.6 | going to start this new version of Hot and Bothered called On Eyre, and it is going |
| 0:46.0 | to launch in June. And Julia has gone away to work on her master's thesis, but that just |
| 0:51.7 | means that we get to work with one of my favorite writers and thinkers and talkers and people. |
| 0:58.6 | The incredible Lauren Sandler, who's the author most recently, if this is all I got, a new |
| 1:03.4 | mother's search for home, which I highly recommend. And I'm really excited for you all to |
| 1:08.6 | meet her. Actually, you all met her in the first season of Hot and Bothered. She was |
| 1:12.3 | on that for season. But hi Lauren. Hi Vanessa. Wait, this is the best romance novel. I mean, |
| 1:20.0 | it's amazing. It's an amazing novel. I love this novel. We're going to talk about this |
| 1:23.3 | novel. But as a romance novel, it's infuriating. Yes, it is infuriating. It's still my favorite |
| 1:32.1 | romance novel. I can't wait to dig into this with you. |
| 1:36.1 | There are perfect romance novels where like the happily ever after is actually perfect, |
| 1:41.1 | right? Like patriarchy has fallen. The woman's career is soaring. She has found true love |
| 1:48.5 | with someone who is worthy of her. And like, there's a puppy, right? Like, there are those |
| 1:52.8 | kinds of perfect romance novels. And this is like a perfect romance novel in that like, |
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