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Who The Hell Are We?

Who The Hell Are We?

By: Edward Kelsey Moore and Melanie Benjamin
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 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: melaniebenjamin.com | edwardkelseymoore.comWho The Hell Are We 2019 Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • Quiet Dell

    Quiet Dell
    Nov 12 2025

    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 tragedy.
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    48 mins
  • Night of the Hunter

    Night of the Hunter
    Sep 24 2025

    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' fate, and Lillian Gish's quiet strength.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Laughing Gas

    Laughing Gas
    Aug 31 2025

    It's Book Club week as Ed and Melanie take on Laughing Gas (1936) by P. G. Wodehouse. A book with aristocrats colliding with Hollywood child stars in a screwball farce of body-swapping and mischief.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
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