Fish and visitors stink in three days, but podcasts are evergreen! Dan and Rob return for the annual Thanksgiving nonsense with Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack (1732-1758).

John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Rob McCoy

Facsimiles of most of the pages of most of the editions of Poor Richard are available here.

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Raggedy Ann, Barbie, Chucky—they’re all here. That’s what this book is about, right? Erin Gambrill discusses Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls (1966).

John McCoy

Trailer for the movie adaptation starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate

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Why just sit around waiting for the end of the world when you can hear a podcast about it? Jelani Sims discusses Nevil Shute’s On the Beach (1957).

John McCoy with Jelani Sims

Stanley Kramer’s film adaptation, on YouTube.

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Kids today love Thucydides, right? Anyone? Daniel Daughhetee returns to discuss this late fifth century BCE chronicle of Athens v. Sparta.

John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee

Follow along at home!

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It’s a naive literary podcast without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption. Dan Cassino discusses James Thurber’s “The Catbird Seat” (1942) and The 13 Clocks (1950).

John McCoy with Dan Cassino

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If you’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast, why not listen to this podcast before lunch? Phil Gonzales discusses Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).

John McCoy with Phil Gonzales

Phil’s favorite!

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After eight years of the podcast I finally do the inevitable. Shelly Brisbin discusses John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939).

John McCoy with Shelly Brisbin

A discussion of the painting (in the collection of Ralph Foster Museum)

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Howl likes to move it, move it. Audrey Lazaro and Dan McCoy are on to discuss Diana Wynne Jones’s book Howl’s Moving Castle (1986).

John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Audrey Lazaro

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I don’t care how long this day’s journey has been, so help me I will turn this car around if you kids don’t stop. Kris Markel discusses Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night(written 1941, published 1956).

John McCoy with Kris Markel

This clip dramatizes the stage directions for Long Day’s Journey into Night Act 2, Scene 1.

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Jean, Jean, the roses are red and all of the leaves have gone green, so Glenn Fleishman and John are discussing Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961).

John McCoy with Glenn Fleishman

Glenn’s podcast on being divided by a common language.

Trailer for the film adaptation starring Maggie Smith.

McKuen’s inexplicable theme song for the above.

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