126 years ago, H. G. Wells's The Time Machine imagined a worst case scenario for humanity's future that was somehow still more optimistic than your average millennial. This week we chat about time travel, socialism, and problematic not-faves.

Today we chat about Shakespeare's Macbeth, a play that completely fails the Bechdel test and still manages to hinge all its best moments on its female characters. Featuring hot takes by more people than just us!

This week we chat about Yeats's The Second Coming, very reliable memory techniques, fairies, and monkey scrotums. This is a classy podcast.

It's time for Paper Towns by John Green! Join us to chat about a book we actually love and find out why we read this during our English undergrad. Young adult lit is real lit, pass it on.

Join Amy and special guest Zach for a chat about A Midsummer Night's Dream by our boy, Willy Shakes, and Sandman #19: A Midsummer Night's Dream by our other boy, Neil Gaiman!

We chat about Song of Myself, a poem that was new to both of us! Pop by for great essay ideas like: Is Walt Whitman a manic pixie dream boy? and; How is your identity like a timbit?

This week we talk about Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, including hot takes such as: exploitation is bad, the humanities matter, and your teen's internet activity might be able to tell you if they're a psychopath. Chantelle also speaks out in defense of sci fi. (Did it need to be defended? Let's find out.)

This week we talk about a very famous work of fanfiction about... wait for it... the Bible. That's right, folks, it's time for John Milton's Paradise Lost! Sit back, enjoy, and avoid the forbidden snacks.

We celebrate our listeners' writing! And then we demolish Chantelle's silly middle school poems and Amy's sad high school poems. Content warnings embedded in the episode for mentions of depression, death, and suicide.

We tackle Shakespeare's longest play, which is about... not much, actually. Find out why we're not fans of Hamlet (the character) or Hamlet (the play). Content warnings for parental death, suicide, and "madness" as a literary trope.