I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Secret mailbox edition.

It's Wednesday, January 8th, 2020. On today's show, Little Women is writer-directed at Greta Gerwig's

adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott Classic. It is being swooned for and hard by critics, one of whom

is Dana Stevens, can't wait to ask her about it. And then it's that time of year again,

the raffish cousin to the more pompously venerable Oscars this year the Golden Globes were last night.

We discussed those as well, winners, losers, surprises, speeches, and Sartoria.

My new favorite word. And finally, it's also that time of year again. Again, it's Slate's

movie club, which is Dana, sort of a raffish cousin to itself in a way.

I guess so.

I was just trying to put that together.

Well, there's no kind of pompous... Like it was cloned?

Well, there's no pompous, venerable original that it's the copy of, and yet it feels as though

there ought to be, you know, somehow.

I can see what you mean, right?

It's augustly contrarian.

It's been around as long as

Slate has. Right. It's both the original thing itself and not self-serious. Anyway, that was a

compliment. Anyway, Danny Stevens is the film critic of slate.com. Hey, Dana. Hello. Happy New Year. And

of course, Julia Turner is the deputy managing editor of the LA Times.

Julia, hello.

Hello, hello. Hi. And happy new year to you too. 2020. My God. All right, let's dig into 2020. Louisa May Alcats' Little Women was published in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Of course, it very famously. I think it's fair to say iconically follows four sisters,

Beth Meg, Amy, and of course Joe the very famously. I think it's fair to say iconically follows four sisters,

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