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Come join us as we go in length into the great American masterpiece, "Moby Dick"!  There's traumatized toddlers!  Dick fat!  A South Seas gay marriage!  Everything needed to run a safe re-election!

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Split your lungs with blood and thunder, kids!  It's Herman Melville!  As we begin our journey into the life of this troubled sailor, we will be focusing on his career as a failed writer before his eventual magnum opus, "Moby Dick".  Take your Dramamine, the water's gonna be rough!

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Hello, all.  This is just a quick update for anyone wondering why we've got such a strange episode schedule currently.  Short answer: it's because we don't make any money on this podcast so we're fighting for our lives with our day jobs.  And with schedule changes for our day jobs comes schedule changes for our episodes on here.  Episodes will now come every 2 weeks until further notice.  Thanks for your understanding!

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WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME YOU LITTLE COMMIE?  YOU THINK YOU CAN TALK TO UNCLE SAM THAT WAY?  Well it turns out that someone DID talk to Uncle Sam that way, and his name was James Dalton Trumbo, author of "Johnny Got His Gun" and the (in)famous Communist blacklisted from Hollywood!  Come listen to us discuss his most well-known work as well as Jordan not knowing the difference between Audrey and Katherine Hepburn.

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TW: Abuse, just... a lot of abuse all around.  Please skip this one if you've got any kind of hangups on this;

Welcome to the first episode for Season 4 of Caleb Can't Read!  And along with it, the most notorious pimp of them all, and the man who literally wrote the handbook on it, Iceberg Slim!

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TW: Child Abuse, Rape;

You know us, we love a good shithead.  Well we're digging up one of the most glorified of all the drunk, abusive, deadbeat writers of them all, the poet and novelist Charles Bukowski!

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Well we typed in "worst author" and this guy unsurprisingly topped every list right ahead of Glenn Beck.  Come join us as we make fun of a Nazi who tried his hand at a literature and gloriously failed, the author behind terrorist propaganda book "The Turner Diaries", William Pierce III!

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COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW we're doing "Beowulf" today.  Come join us on the journey through ransacked England, a house fire, and the melding of reality and fiction which brings us one of the oldest Viking tales we know!

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We've got emotional issues and we're having a hard time dealing with them, it's Johann David Wyss & Co., the authors of "The Swiss Family Robinson"!

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Do you love spies?  Pirates?  Gilligan's Island?  Then this episode is for you!  Come listen to the tale of Daniel Defoe, the man who wanted nothing more than to be accepted by literally anybody.  And he also wrote "Robinson Crusoe" if you're into that kind of thing.