Carla Kaplan Interview Episode 627

Today's episode celebrates a woman who refused to behave—and changed American culture because of it. My guest is Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford. In this rich and revelatory biography, Carla traces the extraordinary journey of Jessica Mitford—from British aristocrat to American radical, investigative journalist, and one of the most irreverent truth-tellers of the twentieth century. This is a conversation about dissent, wit, class, feminism, and what it means to live a life guided by conviction rather than convention.