Peyton DisPlaced (Rebroadcast)

Another crossover episode with our fine friends from the Overdue podcast! Frank and Gwen join Craig and Andrew in Philadelphia to discuss the 1956 novel Peyton Place. Is it a classic? A soap opera? A groundbreaking statement about sexuality? Is it “ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle” — the first line of the book? You decide.

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

More Peyton Place...

• TV and film available from the Library
• Unbuttoning America A Biography of Peyton Place by Ardis Cameron
• The Vanity Fair essay about Metalious that we mentioned
• Her NYT obituary

If you liked this episode, check out our first TLII/Overdue collab: "Lord of the Guys," back in January 2017!