Sophomore Lit

ARRR, it be Thanksgiving so it’s time for gettin’ drunk and talkin’ poems with family. Dan and Rob McCoy join in to discuss Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Host John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Rob McCoy.

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Gena Radcliffe discusses sanity and shuffles in Shirley Jackson’s spookifying The Haunting of Hill House. Happy Halloween!

Host John McCoy.

Gena Radcliffe’s horror podcast

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Beth Auron discusses why you should never swim less than 20 minutes before reading Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

Host John McCoy.

Beau North’s (Beth’s) author page

Excerpt reading

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If only he’d been a vegetarian. Shannon Campe returns to discuss one of Roald Dahl’s shockers for adults, “Lamb to the Slaughter.”

Host John McCoy with Shannon Campe.

Shannon and Zach’s Royals podcast

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What happens when you don’t take your clock out of the dryer soon enough? You get A Wrinkle in Time. Matt Skuta returns to discuss tesseracts and bouncing balls.

Host John McCoy with Matt Skuta.

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Sophmore Lit hits 50 episodes with the return of John Siracusa as we sort the living from The Dead in James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914).

Host John McCoy with John Siracusa and David J. Loehr.

Wikipedia entry

Co-host John Siracusa

Excerpt David J. Loehr

Theme music Malcolm Nygard

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Despite all my rage, I am still just a canary in a cage. Jason Snell returns to discuss San Francisco, steam beer, and gold teeth in Frank Norris’s McTeague. Reading: David Loehr. Theme music: Malcolm Nygard.

Host John McCoy with Jason Snell.

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What’s waiting ‘round the bend, my Huckleberry friend? Jelani Sims helps make sense of the glorious mess that is Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Host John McCoy with Jelani Sims.

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Before the Hulu series that everyone told you you had to watch was the Margaret Atwood novel that everyone told you you had to read. Caroline Fulford returns to discuss dystopias and how to tell your waves of feminism apart.

Host John McCoy with Caroline Fulford and Erika Ensign.

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Sometimes, a girl just wants to play marbles. Kwame Phillips discusses the Caribbean, doctor fish, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John.

Host John McCoy with Kwame Phillips and Jane Dempsey.

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