1-800-1800

1-800-1872: Abby and the chocolate factory

Welcome back to 1-800-1800! This week we are joined by the one and only Abigail Sandler, architect and author of Price Upon Request, a newsletter exploring the role of or

1-800-The Awakening

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com “It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter

1-800-1891: basketball is our favorite sport

This week, Harry Krinsky of Nothing But Respect joins us to talk about the invention of basketball. We discuss the rules of the game (you won’t believe how they dribbled)

1-800-The Tenant of Yesteryear

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com On this week’s bonus episode of 1-800-1800, the girls dare to discuss a contemporary

1-800-1849: A quick history of the state of California

On this week’s episode of 1-800-1800, Mabel goes home…to California. After a brief debate about what sport the Forty-Niners play, the girls discuss the history of Califor

1-800-Late Fame

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This week, Mabel and Madeline read Late Fame, a perfect little novella written by Ar

1-800-1861: Death Becomes Her w/ Jessica DeFino

This week on 1-800-1800, we’re discussing life’s inevitabilities—death and unrealistic beauty standards—with Jessica DeFino of one of our all time favorite Substacks, Fle

1-800-Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This week, Mabel and Madeline dig into the painting that has appeared most frequentl

1-800-1876: America, the sequel

Yoohoo, Welcome to America, the sequel. In this episode we look back at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. We talk about the giant engines and sexy

1-800-1776: The Shot Heard Round the World

I’m a yankee doodle dandy and you’re on the precipice of learning all that Mabel and Madeline have to say about the American Revolution in this special episode about 1776

1-800-1871 (feat. Sara Hinkley)

This week we are very excited to welcome the brilliant Sara Hinkley onto 1-800-1800 to discuss her forthcoming novel The Red Sacrament. Sara’s brilliant debut tells the s

1-800-1841: London's Charivari

Madeline and Mabel discuss the founding of Punch Magazine, the most popular satirical magazine of the 19th century, and muse on its enduring influence. The girls also tou

1-800-The Princess Cassamissima

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Book Club Alert !! This week the girls recap Henry James's The Princess Cassamissima

1-800-1787: Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

On this week’s episode, Madeline takes us back to her material culture roots to tell the story of the British abolition movement through one object, the Wedgwood “Slave M

1-800-The Gadfly

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Mandylion now has a book club at McNally Jackson called the Minor Works book club. E

1-800-1844: A telegraph and a train walk into a bar

What Hath God Wrought, indeed! This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel tells Madeline what a telegraph is. She starts in 1792 with the one and only Claude Chappe, a man so passi

1-800-1823: On the origin of an American religion

This week, Madeline and Mabel discuss the origins of Mormonism and how its founder, Joseph Smith, continues to influence the modern day iteration of the religion. Hypocri

1-800-Wuthering Heights

In this special episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel discuss Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as well as Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation starring Margot Robbie and

1-800-Death by Lightning

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Good morning starshine! President James Garfield says hello! This week on 1-800-180

1-800-1852: The Princess Who Ate a Glass Piano

This week on 1-800-1800, Julia Carpenter, who writes the brilliant Substack “A Woman to Know,” joins us to discuss the Bavarian princess who was convinced that she had sw