
Authors Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore talk books, movies, aging, ambition, and everything in between. Each episode features one book or one movie—something to read, something to watch, and plenty to say. It's a podcast about stories, friendship, and figuring it out as you go. Suggestions and comments: melanded@whothehellarewe.com Podcast Substack: melanieanded.substack.com More: melanie... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 170 | Founded | 7 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | ArtsTV & FilmBooks | |||

It's book review week, Melanie and Ed discuss Prodigal Summer (2000) by author Barbara Kingsolver. Also, Melanie explains why it has been her best sports weekend EVER. More at melanieanded.substack.com or email melanded@whothehellarewe.com
Our hosts seem to have hit the eggnog early as they discuss The Shop Around the Corner, a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut... more
Robert Mitchum's preacher in The Night of the Hunter was inspired by real murders that also shaped Jayne Anne Phillips's novel Quiet Dell. Ed and Melanie trace the link between book and film, exploring how truth becomes myth and how art transforms tr... more
Robert Mitchum's sinister preacher, Charles Laughton's only directorial effort, and one of cinema's most haunting thrillers — The Night of the Hunter (1955) went unappreciated in its day. Ed and Melanie explore its striking imagery, Shelley Winters' ... more
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I love this wonderful podcast. An absolute breath of fresh air.
How many of you are familiar with “laughing therapy?” I cannot remember if it is simply a Southern European therapy that my aunt used to practice on me and my sisters, to make us laugh, or a neglected global therapy that costs nothing to practice.
It worked like this: my zia Antonietta, definitely not my zia Angelina, would begin to laugh like a mad woman and before you knew it was contagious: me and my sisters would start laughing, with tears in our eyes, without really understanding why. more
I enjoy this podcast a lot! The hosts are a lot of fun and often outright hilarious! The anecdotes they share about their lives sometimes just leave me rolling on the floor! They are obviously wonderful, long-time friends and truly care for each other.
The movies and books they have seen and and read have opened my eyes to new genres and classics I knew nothing about before. I’ve had great fun exploring the movies and books they recommend (or not)!
My only wish is that Melanie would give ... more
Thanks for letting us eavesdrop on your weekly fun! The best conversations are about the personal and their writing. It is a fun hour.
These two are so fun to listen to. Their conversations take the same twists and turns as mine do with friends. Interrupting each other to make a joke then inevitably “where were we...”? Just fun.
I like hearing about the movies they’re watching and how they tie it to books.
Spoiler alert... they spare no details when they rehash a movie. 😉









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