Required Reading With Tom and Stella – Two True Freaks

It’s the fifth episode of Required Reading with Tom and Stella! This podcast, which is hosted by Tom Panarese (Pop Culture Affidavit, In Country, Taking Flight) and Stella (Batgirl to Oracle: A Barbara Gordon Podcast, The Batman Universe) is two teachers talking about literature. Each episode, we will be taking a look at a single work, analyzing it, criticizing it and deciding if it’s worth its place in the canon.

This time out, we take a look at Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, his classic novel about Buck, a dog who is taken from his home and has to survive both in the wilderness and mistreatment by men in the Klondike Gold Rush of the early 1900s.

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http://twotruefreaks.com/media/podcasts/requiredreading/mp3/RequiredReadingEpisode5.mp3

It’s the fourth episode of Required Reading with Tom and Stella! This podcast, which is hosted by Tom Panarese (Pop Culture Affidavit, In Country, Taking Flight) and Stella (Batgirl to Oracle: A Barbara Gordon Podcast, The Batman Universe) is two teachers talking about literature. Each episode, we will be taking a look at a single work, analyzing it, criticizing it and deciding if it’s worth its place in the canon.

This time out, we take a look at Le Petit Prince, or The Little Prince, the classic 1943 book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

If you like our podcast, feel free to like our Facebook page (just search for Required Reading with Tom and Stella) or email us at [email protected]

http://twotruefreaks.com/media/podcasts/requiredreading/mp3/RequiredReadingEpisode4.mp3

It’s the third episode of Required Reading with Tom and Stella! This podcast, which is hosted by Tom Panarese (Pop Culture Affidavit, In Country, Taking Flight) and Stella (Batgirl to Oracle: A Barbara Gordon Podcast, The Batman Universe) is two teachers talking about literature. Each episode, we will be taking a look at a single work, analyzing it, criticizing it and deciding if it’s worth its place in the canon.

This time out, we take a look at Maya Angelou’s landmark memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which explores her childhood and adolesence in Arkansas and in other parts of the South and Midwest during the 1930s-1950s.

If you like our podcast, feel free to liked our Facebook page (just search for Required Reading with Tom and Stella) or email us at [email protected]

http://twotruefreaks.com/media/podcasts/requiredreading/mp3/RequiredReadingEpisode3.mp3

It’s the second episode of Required Reading with Tom and Stella! This podcast, which is hosted by Tom Panarese (Pop Culture Affidavit, In Country, Taking Flight) and Stella (Batgirl to Oracle: A Barbara Gordon Podcast, The Batman Universe) is two teachers talking about literature. Each episode, we will be taking a look at a single work, analyzing it, criticizing it and deciding if it’s worth its place in the canon.

This time around, we will be looking at Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie, a story of a mother clinging to outdated ideas, a son who seems to long to be elsewhere, a daughter who is as fragile as the glass animals that she collects, and the spectre of a father who looms over them.

If you like our podcast, feel free to liked our Facebook page (just search for Required Reading with Tom and Stella) or email us at [email protected]

http://twotruefreaks.com/media/podcasts/requiredreading/mp3/RequiredReadingEpisode2.mp3