Sophomore Lit

Unsightly blemishes! Toxic maidens! David Loehr returns to discuss two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.”

Host John McCoy with David J. Loehr.

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And you thought your electric bill was nuts. Jane Dempsey returns to discuss Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

Host John McCoy with Jane Dempsey.

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It’s nothing a little glue won’t fix. David Loehr is here to discuss Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.

Host John McCoy.

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Do you cry at funerals? If not, maybe you’re the protagonist of Albert Camus’s The Stranger. Matt Skuta returns to puzzle this absurd novel out.

Host Matt Skuta.

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Guys let’s all be mature about this. Shannon Campe returns to discuss Judy Blume’s forbidden book for teens, “Forever…”

Host John McCoy with Shannon Campe.

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Ashley Challinor and John spend a long still hot weary dead September afternoon discussing not merely a Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner, nor yet the ideal of the great Southern novel, but in fact the very podcast of an ideal of a thought of a concept of a the becoming of a book.

Host John McCoy.

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We return to both Kurt Vonnegut and to Jason Snell, as we discuss the most famous book about time and birdsong ever written, Slaughterhouse Five.

Host John McCoy with Jason Snell.

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Are you unsure of how candles work? Then join Megan Tripp and John as we discuss the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Host John McCoy with Megan Tripp.

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When it comes to these podcasts, we give and give and you take and take! But that’s okay, because this time Matt Skuta and I are discussing Lois Lowry’s The Giver.

Host John McCoy with Matt Skuta.

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In mourning for your life? Then why not join Ethan Warren and John as they discuss Anton Chekov’s The Seagull.

Host John McCoy.

Excerpt from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by Bernd Krueger, cc-by-sa Germany License

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