Another crossover episode with our fine friends from the Overdue podcast! Frank and Gwen join Craig and Andrew in Philadelphia to discuss the 1956 novel Peyton Place. Is it a classic? A soap opera? A groundbreaking statement about sexuality? Is it “ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle” — the first line of the book? You decide.
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
More Peyton Place...
TV and film available from the Library Unbuttoning America A Biography of Peyton Place by Ardis Cameron The Vanity Fair essay about Metalious that we mentioned Her NYT obituaryIf you liked this episode, check out our first TLII/Overdue collab: "Lord of the Guys," back in January 2017!
