Nudie Reads

In 2011 a Jerry Lee Lewis fan visited The Killer's home-turned-museum in tiny Ferriday, Louisiana and penned a travelogue to his love. Great writing can be delivered by those closest to you. 🇺🇸⚜️🎹�...

24 Feb 202213min

Jules Verne was never recognised by the Academie Francais as a classic French author but we all know he's one of the best writers ever to put pen to paper. Around The World in 80 Days is one of his ma...

20 Feb 202241min

In 1867, after Venice was finally free of the Austrian Empire - having joined the new Kingdom of Italy - the Venetians revived their 71-year dormant Carnival tradition of baroque masks and costumes. A...

17 Feb 202213min

Philip K Dick is known for his prescient, dystopian science fiction. He was filled with drugs and anxiety and, married 5 times, not an easy man to live with. But he was, on occasion, hilarious. 'The E...

13 Feb 202214min

Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in 1944 wrote to the troops before D-Day in beautifully-worded missive to inspire victory. And he wrote a second (thankfully) unsent note to cover the pot...

10 Feb 20228min

E.M Forster wrote "A Room With A View" as a gentle observation of neurotic Edwardian-era British types on their Grand Tour of Italy. It is a wry amusing soap opera, beautifully written with great affe...

6 Feb 20221h

Author William White, in his strange book "The Story of a Great Delusion" shows how Reverend Cotton Mather, hated historical figure behind the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, was also responsible for introdu...

3 Feb 202220min

Jonathan Swift was a master of sustained sarcasm and satire. In 1729 he wrote "A Modest Proposal" about how to solve Irish poverty. There was nothing modest about his proposal and it remains a satiric...

30 Jan 202230min