Sophomore Lit

There is no joy in Mudville. My brother Dan discusses “Casey at the Bat” (1888). Happy Thanksgiving!

Host John McCoy with Dan McCoy.

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And still bellowing he came. Jacob Haller discusses William Faulkner’s “The Bear” (1942).

Host Jacob Haller.

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Does anybody really know what time it is? Zach Powers discusses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway.

Host John McCoy with Zach Powers and Jean MacDonald.

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I promise we won’t make any jokes about losing our heads. Sarah Ifft Decker discusses Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Host John McCoy with Sarah Ifft Decker.

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We didn’t mention that the titular Sword is not the same thing as Excalibur because you already knew that. Rosalynde Vas Dias discusses T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone (1938).

Host John McCoy with Rosalynde Vas Dias.

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There is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about in boats, except maybe messing about in podcasts. Erin Gambrill discusses The Wind in the Willows.

Host John McCoy with Erin Gambrill and Kelly Guimont.

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John Siracusa returns to discuss Edwin Abbott’s Flatland (1884). Will it give us a new perspective or will it leave us flat? (Spoiler, John hated it.)

Host John McCoy with John Siracusa.

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After four failed IPOs, we’re sure this one will work! Dan McCoy discusses Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business (1970).

Host Dan McCoy.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. However, podcasts are both. Ollie Brady discusses Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

Host John McCoy with Ollie Brady.

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Caroline Fulford returns to discuss a nice story about home decorating, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Host John McCoy with Caroline Fulford.

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