Travis talks about his experience in an alternative teaching certification program. Unsurprisingly, the training was insufficient, and his instructional coach terrorized him. Travis and Charles also discuss the ideology behind these programs. Follow the blog at teachingishonestwork.substack.com.

In this episode, we describe what we mean by "honest work." The definition is a work in progress. We talk about the blog where you can find the posts that accompany these podcast episodes: teachingishonestwork.substack.com. We also discuss what it's like to be a special education teacher and not get respect. 

The podcast has reinvented itself! Queer books are fine, but we have more to discuss. Honest work is not valued in America, and teaching is certainly not valued. Listen to our thoughts on this and follow the Teaching is Honest Work blog at teachingishonestwork.substack.com. 

When we think of Brideshead Revisited, we cannot ignore Jeremy Irons and his portrayal of the main character Charles Ryder in a classic television adaptation of this novel. Brideshead Revisited is a classic, and it is surprisingly candid in its queerness. It's a story set among the elite London-Oxford crowd in the 1920s through the 1940s, and it's a pleasant escape. 

The Folded Leaf is a hidden gem that explores sexuality and intimacy in male friendships. Does the author's own identity matter? We discuss these topics and more. 

Truman Capote is a great writer and a fascinating literary and cultural figure. We discuss the novel that launched him into public consciousness and the indelible Southern queerness of it all. 

Gore Vidal was a literary titan of the twentieth century, and his life was remarkable. We discuss his amazing life, which gives us insight on The CIty and the Pillar, which changed the course of his life and confronts ideas of masculinity within the gay community. Naturally, there's a lot to discuss!

Charles and Travis discuss Carson McCullers's weird little queer novel from 1941. Be prepared for the macabre and the strange with generous doses of humor from Charles. Also, check out our blog posts at queermalecanonproject.com.

As the title suggests, Goodbye to Berlin is a story of a British expatriate’s years in Berlin in the early 1930s before he ultimately returns to Britain. The book is a series of vignettes told in different chapters, allowing the narrator to communicate with an eccentric cast of characters. Christopher Isherwood was a famous British gay writer of the twentieth century who lived in Berlin as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s. Although Isherwood was proudly gay, he did not feel that he could include a gay narrator in his novels and still get them published. Hence, in Goodbye to Berlin, the narrator is also named Christopher Isherwood, but this character’s sexual identity is unclear.