Hope you’re not lactose intolerant! Matt Skuta returns to discuss John Cormier’s I am the Cheese (1977).

John McCoy with Matt Skuta

The 1983 film adaptation.

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What, the one as big as me? Marina McCoy makes her holiday return to discuss Mário de Andrade’s sweet-and-salty “A Christmas Turkey” (1956).

John McCoy with Marina McCoy

A dubbed introduction to the life and work of Brazilian poet and author Mário de Andrade

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Who watches the Watch House? Not us, the book is better. Ross Cleaver returns to discuss Robert Westall’s The Watch House (1977).

John McCoy with Ross Cleaver

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The answer, my friend…is not a lyric in the any of the songs the McCoy Brothers discuss. For this annual drunk Thanksgiving Special, Rob, Dan, and John talk about Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, One Tin Soldier, and Alice’s Restaurant.

John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy

A companion essay for this episode on my blog about Thanksgiving specials and protest songs.

One of the most successful covers of this song, originally by Pete Seeger.

In the episode I don’t remember who wrote this song, but it was Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter.

Here it is in all its 18 1/2 minute glory.

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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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