Sophomore Lit

Jelani Sims returns to discuss Richard Wright’s 1940 wake-up call, Native Son.

Host John McCoy with Jelani Sims.

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O Captain, My Captain, the podcast has begun! Daniel Daughetee discusses two Whitman poems about Lincoln.

Host John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee.

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I considered posting an hour of static, but instead here’s Erin Gambrill and me discussing Don Delillo’s postmodern novel White Noise (1985).

Host John McCoy with Erin Gambrill.

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Last night I dreamed I did a podcast again. It seemed to me that Gena Radcliffe discussed Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (1935).

Host John McCoy with Gena Radcliffe.

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Christmas isn’t Christmas without presents, and literary podcasts aren’t literary podcasts without an exhaustive conversation about Louisa May Alcott’s essential coming of age book. Shannon Campe discusses.

Host John McCoy with Shannon Campe.

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Happy 100th episode everybody! For this special Sophomore Lit, I asked random people what they remembered most about their high school literature classes.

Host John McCoy.

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Och, please dinnae make fun of non-Scottish people Darren Husted and John as they discuss and try to read aloud excerpts of Robert Burns’s “Tam O’ Shanter” (1791) and “To a Mouse” (1785).

Host John McCoy with Darren Husted.

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You’re the Martian now, Dog! Jason Snell discusses frontiers and sad houses in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950).

Host John McCoy with Jason Snell and David J. Loehr.

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It’s fruitcake weather! John and Marina discuss memory, dog bones, and kites in Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” (1956).

Host John McCoy with Marina McCoy.

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It’s a big long book about Victorian religion and railroad investments! Daniel Reifferscheid discusses Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh (1903).

Host John McCoy with Daniel Reifferscheid.

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