Sophomore Lit

Don’t you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour, but an hour spent discussing Tennessee Williams’s best-known play? Gena Radcliffe guest hosts.

Host John McCoy with Gena Radcliffe and Shannon Campe.

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Small towns aren’t all fun and games and Journey songs. Erin Gambrill discusses Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

Host John McCoy with Erin Gambrill and David J. Loehr.

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If the world is in no special hurry to kill you, why not join Jason Snell to discuss war, love and vermouth? It’s Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.

Host John McCoy with Jason Snell.

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Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to discuss today’s modern Prometheuses. It’s the long-awaited episode on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818-31).

Host John McCoy with Moisés Chiullán and Glenn Fleishman.

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Time enough at last…to read novels about nuclear Armageddon! Jelani Sims guests to discuss Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon.

Host Jelani Sims.

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Nothing gold can stay, but that won’t stop Matt Skuta and John from talking about the greasy hair and switchblades in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders.

Host John McCoy with Matt Skuta.

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Had we but world enough and time, we could talk about more poems than just these two: John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.” Liz Riegel joins the discussion on meter, metaphor, and metaphysics.

Host John McCoy.

Poetry reader David Loehr’s podcast.

Poetry background music adapted from William Byrd, making use of midi files by John Sankey: “Copyright © 1939-2006 under the Berne convention in order to protect the right of all to continue to use them freely. Anyone may copy, link to, or distribute any of them as they are as much as they wish as long as as long as this notice of copyright and permission to further copy is distributed with all copies.”

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What do you see when you look at this inkblot: a masterpiece of sequential art, or a confusing mess? Christy Admiraal discusses the unavoidable Moore / Gibbons comic Watchmen.

Host John McCoy with Christy Admiraal.

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It may not be the best of times, it may not be the worst of times, but it’s time for a new episode so let’s discuss Charles Dickens’s novel of beheading and knitting. Rosalynde Vas Dias joins.

Host John McCoy with Rosalynde Vas Dias.

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Time to appreciate the finer things in life, by sleeping on them. Tamar Avishai discusses E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Host John McCoy.

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