Boy, do we know the feeling of THIS episode title after the past few weeks! Technical glitches and daily-life dramas have tied us up the past few weeks, but now we're back... and Amy and Jacinta firmly believe this book is worth the wait! They uncover and unpack Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1915 emotional ensemble drama, "K"—primarily because who can resist a book title that's only one letter?? Plus the all-new history segment profiles a little-known master from the Golden Age of Illustration, Charles E. Chambers.

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Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:

Poor Dear Theodora!

Jan of the Windmill

The Notting Hill Mystery

Hearts and Masks

P.G. Wodehouse

Agatha Christie

Anna Katherine Green

The Circular Staircase

Little Women

Cranford

Little Dorrit

Pearl S. Buck

W. Somerset Maugham

Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Golden Age of Illustration, WWI, Castle, Murdoch Mysteries, Bob Newhart, Jeeves & Wooster, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Gilligan's Island, Steinway & Sons, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Fannie Munsell, Pauline True, Winston Churchill, King Albert & Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Queen Mary and King George V of England, The Saturday Evening Post, Melrose Place, Coronation Street, Ballykissangel, Forrest Gump, Lark Rise to Candleford, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Richard Munsell Chambers, Pearl Harbor, Norman Rockwell, the Art Institute of Chicago, soap operas, the friend zone, nursing school, Pittsburgh, breast cancer, and rental cars.

It's a Gibson Girl first—TWO guest reviewers! Gwendolyn Gage makes her third appearance on the podcast (is it time to start calling her a co-host?), along with longtime show fan Anne Skelly, a docent at the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, NY. They join Amy in the studio for a deep dive into the first novel written by the legendary Western artist Frederic Remington, JOHN ERMINE OF THE YELLOWSTONE (1902). Plus Anne, with her expertise on all things Fred, is the show's first-ever guest historian for the history segment!

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Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:

The Way of an Indian by Frederic Remington

Richard Harding Davis

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, the Golden Age of Illustration, the Crow (Absaroke) tribe, Dances with Wolves, Tombstone, John Wayne, John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, the U.S. Cavalry, the Apache Wars, the Civil War, tuberculosis, fish-out-of-water tropes, anti-heroes, and scalping.

Hear ye, hear ye! An olde friend of the show has returned! Amy is joined in the studio by the original co-host of The Gibson Girl Review, Katja Labonté, for our first-ever medieval story! But what will the medieval history major and the medieval fiction aficionado make of Howard Pyle's 1891 armor-rattler, MEN OF IRON? Tune in to find out! Plus Amy explores Howard Pyle's legacy as an artist in the next installment of our Golden Age of Illustration history segments.

CLICK HERE for complete show notes, including a link to download today's public domain book for FREE!

Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Richard Harding Davis

For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

St. George for England by G.A. Henty

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple by Joanna Davidson Politano

The Pax Series by Sara Pennypacker

The Parish Orphans of Devon Series by Mimi Matthews

Louisa May Alcott

What Katy Did by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Golden Age of Illustration, medieval history, library cards, Victorian travel, historical romance, knights, Quakers, Teddy Roosevelt, injustice, unions, the Brandywine School, the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art, Drexel University, the strenuous life, rugged individualism, vengeance, Scribner's Magazine, Chadds Ford, bullies, imagination, Henry IV, Henry V, the Battle of Agincourt, Ecclesiastes, coming of age, jousting, damsels, and pirates.