Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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0:00 - intro
0:57 - The Stalker
6:30 - A Discovery of Witches preamble
9:56 - A Discovery of Witches
15:00 - Shadow of Night
18:55 - The Book of Life
23:20 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
31:10 - The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin
39:39 - Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet by Catherine Hanley49:28 - Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry
53:38 - Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
1:00:00 - King Queen Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
1:06:00 - Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí by Michèle Gerber Klein
1:16:16 - Conclusion and thank you

Misc Mentioned:
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Pilgrimage by John Brodenrick
Sister Europe by Nell Zink

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