Nudie Reads

Benjamin Franklin knew the value of a dollar. And he had the most charming way of advising about that concept in his perfectly written letter to a friend. Great writing and truly great advice. ️🇺🇸😙...

17 Jun 202112min

Did you know Charles Dickens wrote horror stories? He did and this one's a doozy. After he was involved in a terrible train crash in he wrote this chilling macabre horror. The Great Dickens knew how t...

13 Jun 202132min

Hating on the lawyers is an ancient and noble past-time. Al Capone's lawyer was Albert Fink. He lost. It's a good bet Capone rather hated him. But Fink certainly tried to get his client off tax evasio...

10 Jun 202113min

English artist William Hogarth's paintings were so detailed and clever they could be read like books. The Rake's Progress series of 8 pictures show the ultimate destination of a reckless life - the Be...

6 Jun 202112min

In 1889 Mark Twain wrote 'A Confederate Yankee in King Arthur's Court' a charming little book and one of the world's earliest proper time travel stories. It's no spoiler to imagine 19th century Yankee...

3 Jun 202122min

Herman Melville may have been famed for his epic work 'Moby Dick' but his last novel in 1856 was a short but perfectly formed handbook on how to spot a con and a con men. The term 'con man' started in...

30 Mai 202130min

Little Me is a camp classic about a fake Hollywood star, Belle Poitrine. It is an arch satirical send up of all Hollywood starlets and stars but not delivered with contempt. It celebrates them. All of...

27 Mai 202123min

In 1841 Scotsman Charles Mackay published his enduring and engaging work about popular madnesses across Europe and America. Alongside Dutch tulipmania Mackay noted German and American witch madness an...

23 Mai 202131min