Hello everyone. Alex joins me this week to discuss Washington Irving's short story, Rip Van Winkle, a pioneering narrative inbeing annoyed with ones wife. This is the public version of Literary Hangover. To support the show, consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/literaryhangover, giving reviews in iTunes, Stitcher, etc and most happily telling your friends Follow us on twitter: @LitHangover @mattlech @Alecks_Guns

References: "Peter Klaus," the folk tale Rip Van WInkle was based upon. https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/German_folktale_6.html Biographer Brian Jay Jones on Irving at the New York Society Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH6JJw6ngY&t=683s Michael Warner, "Irving's Posterity" in ELH (Fall 2000) "The American Experience: A Collection of Great American Stories" at Audible "Washington Irving and the Conservative Imagination," Allen Guttmann, American Literature (May, 1964)