Men Yell at Me
This American Ex Wife the Podcast
"Remembering the original ex-wife" with Marsha Gordon
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"Remembering the original ex-wife" with Marsha Gordon

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Thank you to everyone listening and sharing this podcast! In our first five weeks, we’ve gotten over 33,000 downloads! Zach, my producer, and I are just floored!

Okay, now let’s get to the show…

As the stock market crashed in 1929, Ursula Parrot released her novel Ex-Wife. In it, the protagonist darts between the experience of sexual liberation and the ever-present sense of loss from her marriage. It feels at once familiar and refreshingly new. Parrot’s biographer Marsha Gordon asks why a century later women still have an uneasy relationship with the label ex-wife.

We also talk about Parrott’s exciting, scandalous, and fabulous life, of liberation, fear, and ex-wifery.

If you like what you hear, preorder This American Ex-Wife the book!

Show notes:

Here the three of us are talking! Notice Zach is trying his best to ham it up, but the mustache is SERIOUS.

Discussion about this podcast

Men Yell at Me
This American Ex Wife the Podcast
This American Ex-Wife. The podcast where we discuss the state of American heterosexual marriage. And by state I mean trash fire. Host Lyz Lenz sits down with a cast of women to talk about their divorces, their journeys and unpacks an institution many take part in but few talk about: divorce.
Hear from writers like Maggie Smith and Minda Honey. A sociologist who studies marriages disparate impact on Black women. And of course some insight from Lyz’s divorce lawyer.
Produced by Zachary Oren Smith. Illustration by Alessandro Gottardo . Show art by Suzanne Glémot.