Nudie Reads

The 1919 Boston Molasses Flood was a terrifying sticky disaster for the city. Thankfully the team at the Boston Post was on the story and their reporting is word perfect. 🇺🇸🌊🍯🏊👋 Get in touch: Em...

27 Jan 202223min

Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects", published first in 1550 and again in 1568, gets a lot of shade but it is the world's first encyclopaedia of art and...

23 Jan 202233min

The 1970s and 1980s were a very different time. Thankfully the son of an amusement park owner has written a beautiful memoir of his father and the park he ran. New Jersey's "Action Park" has much to t...

20 Jan 202217min

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by American illustrator and author Howard Pyle in 1873 is the reason that 'Robin Hood' today means men-in-green-tights and steal-from-the-rich-to-give-to-the-poor. I...

16 Jan 202234min

Ridicule of the great men of Rome was an important part of the festival of Saturnalia and of Roman political life. 18th century Edinburgh newspaper man Thomas Ruddiman agreed but was too much of gentl...

16 Dec 202110min

Who is the most memorably named but forgotten 19th Century author? Jerome Jerome. But his novel "Three Men in a Boat" isn't forgotten. It is much loved. An adventure that also happens to contain the b...

12 Dec 202127min

Adoré Floupette, Ernest Lalor Malley, Sokal Hoax and Grievance Studies Affair aka Sokal Squared are all, at heart, satirical works with a sharp aim at foolish literary and academic circles. But a 1976...

9 Dec 202121min

The chariot race from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur" is such a cinematic masterpiece many have forgotten the book from which it is taken. Lew Wallace wrote one of the all-time great action scenes in literat...

5 Dec 202141min