Cigars are always trouble. Marina McCoy discusses Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972).

John McCoy with Marina McCoy

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Sometimes you want to go where everybody is a thread in the fabric of the human condition. Also they know your name. Phil Gonzales discusses William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939).

John McCoy with Phil Gonzales

The John Houseman directed television version for Theater in America, with Kevin Kline and Patti Lupone.

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Hey, things are tough. The McCoy Bros, Rob, John, and Dan, discuss the books that get them through.

John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy

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Ross Cleaver returns to talk owls, plates, and Welsh mythology in Alan Garner’s The Owl Service (1967).

John McCoy with Ross Cleaver

The titular service plate with its owl flowers.

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This episode has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. Jacob Haller tries to make sense of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979).

John McCoy with Jacob Haller

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What’s more cultivated and genteel than classical theater? David Loehr discusses Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)

John McCoy with David J. Loehr

Trailer for the 2011 Broadway musical

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Because twenty would be too few and twenty-two would be ridiculous. Shaenon K. Garrity discusses William Pène du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons (1947).

John McCoy with Shaenon K. Garrity

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Rain Main meets Air Bud. Dan McCoy discusses stims and happy endings and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003).

John McCoy with Dan McCoy

My brother’s newsletter mentioned in the episode.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a bunch of monks sitting around copying stuff. Jelani Sims returns to discuss Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959).

John McCoy with Jelani Sims

The Internet Archive has all episodes of the 15-part NPR Playhouse adaptation which aired in 1981.

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Stick some stamps on the top of our heads. Deborah Stanish discusses Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” (1941)

John McCoy with Deborah Stanish

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