Podcasts could happen to anyone. David Loehr discusses exits and entrances in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (first performed 1966, published 1967).

John McCoy with David J. Loehr

Trailer for 1990 movie.

That Björk video John references, if anyone cares.

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Don’t it allways seem to go, you don’t know what unicorns you got til they’re gone. Kathy Campbell discusses Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 The Last Unicorn.

John McCoy with Kathy Campbell

My Pathetic Fallacy blogpost about theme song for the movie version of The Last Unicorn.

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BEEP boop what is… love? Well, we don’t figure this out, but John Siracusa does return to Sophomore Lit to discuss Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920), the origin of the word “robot.”

John McCoy with John Siracusa

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Brush up on the Large Object Theory of History. Shaenon K. Garrity returns to discuss Jean Merrill’s The Pushcart War (1964).

John McCoy with Shaenon K. Garrity

The first ever SophLit merch!

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If you’re suffering from Quiet Desparation, why not listen to the not-so-quiet voices of Dan Daughhetee and me discussing Henrey David Thoreau’s Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)?

John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee

My blog post with further Thoreau musings.

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Somebody loves us all. Rosalynde Vas Dias discusses three poems by Elizabeth Bishop: “Sestina” (1956), “Filling Station” (1956), and “Crusoe in England” (1971).

John McCoy with Rosalynde Vas Dias and Marina McCoy

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Podcasts are the original voices in your head. David Dredrick discusses John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids (1955).

John McCoy with David Dedrick

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Make money fast with this one weird trick. Glenn Fleishman discusses Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit (1956).

John McCoy with Glenn Fleishman

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And indeed there will be time to discuss this, the most mid-life white-guy crisis poem of all. Lisa Schmeiser discusses T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915).

John McCoy with Lisa Schmeiser

Complete text on the Poetry Foundation website

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I’ve heard it said by men of wide experience that podcasts used to be better in the old days. Kieran Healy discusses three short stories by Frank O’Connor: “First Confession,” “The Majesty of the Law,” and “Guests of the Nation.”

John McCoy with Kieran Healy

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