Episode 260 – Little Women and Werewolves
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Did you ever read Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women and think to yourself, “This Jo/Amy/Laurie love triangle is so played out. Why aren’t any of the March sisters horny for Laurie’s grandfather?” If so, you might be Porter Grand, the co-author of Little Women and Werewolves. We were thrilled to be joined by Kathleen Gros (@kagcomix), cartoonist and author of the upcoming graphic novels Carousel Summer and I Hated You in High School. Listen to this episode during the next full moon!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Episode 81 – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Coming up next: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Beth March getting boned so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Little Women and Werewolves by Louisa May Alcott and Porter Grand. |
| 0:23.7 | Joining us to discuss this ridiculous remix is cartoonist and werewolf aficionado, Kathleen Gross. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, Kathleen. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello. |
| 0:34.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:36.6 | In addition to cartoonist and a werewolf aficionado |
| 0:39.6 | Kathleen is also much like Joe March |
| 0:42.8 | and authoress and has an upcoming book |
| 0:46.7 | called Carousel Summer |
| 0:48.1 | but also an already |
| 0:51.7 | came out book well multiple but most notably an already came out book, well, multiple, but most notably an already came out book, |
| 0:56.8 | Joe, an adaptation of little women, which makes you the true expert here. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, it's a sort of adaptation, kind of like this one, but if you're a werewolves. |
| 1:10.0 | How many werewolves would you say years has? |
| 1:13.1 | I think it has zero, I think. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, but that is the thing about any book, if you, you never know what characters are doing, you know, in between chapters. |
| 1:24.1 | They could be werewolves and it just hasn't come up yet. |
| 1:27.0 | Or just like just out of panel on |
| 1:28.8 | every page as a werewolf. But it just didn't, I just couldn't pan out wide enough to draw it. |
| 1:34.1 | Yes. They're hiding. They're lurking in wait. Um, I, when you suggested this book for the |
| 1:44.0 | podcast, I was kind of like, yeah, like I, okay, like, you know, we've done Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and then, you know, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was sort of the first one of this like trend of putting creatures |
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