Nudie Reads

Aesop’s Fables are timeless very short tales packed with wit, wisdom, and morals that still matter. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Look before you leap. They've been educating and bringi...

4 Maj 202523min

Gritty, operatic, great writing from the underworld of Prohibition-era Chicago 1929. A vivid newspaper report on the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, one of the most infamous gangland slaughters in Ameri...

1 Maj 202516min

Shakespeare debuts on Nudie Reads! The Merchant of Venice (1596) delivers high drama in Act 4’s courtroom scene, with Portia’s “quality of mercy” speech and a cunning legal twist. Mercy, justice, and ...

27 Apr 202521min

The story of St George is a corker. Slays a dragon, saves of princess, survives dreadful torture. Where does it come from? A rather odd English translation by publisher William Caxton of the 13th C cl...

24 Apr 202524min

Homer shines on Nudie Reads! The Odyssey(8th century BC) delivers epic adventure—Odysseus vs. the Cyclops is pure wit and grit. From TikTok to Hollywood, it’s a timeless tale people love to retell. 📜...

20 Apr 202538min

A poet, a painter, and a patriot’s ride! Grant Wood’s 1931 quirky pic The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is a great visualcompanion for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” as it ...

17 Apr 202513min

Lady Fortune spins her wheel. Boethius, a Roman in 534, imagined her as Lady Luck in person and wrote of her capricious ways in "On The Consolation of Philosophy" as he sat on death row. Wisdom from a...

13 Apr 202526min

Rock n roll and Roman history. There’s plenty of cross-over to consider. And a certain James Newell Osterberg Jnr better known as Iggy Pop penned a lovely review of Edward Gibbon’sThe Decline and Fall...

10 Apr 202511min