Unfortunately Required Reading

This week's episode focuses on Bram Stoker's Dracula.  We drink sangria, eat Russian Hematoga bars, and much on Irish cheddar while discussing vampires, sexuality, and Abraham Stoker. 

This week we discuss Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird, the controversy over Go Set a Watchman,  drink whiskey, and discuss racism.

This week's episode focuses on the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet.  We drink a rose, eat some awesome cheese, and talk about why this is probably not an appropriate play to hand off to hormonal teenager. Check our our show notes at UnfortunatelyRequiredReading.com. 

This week's episode focuses on Dante's Inferno. Join us as we discuss Italian politics, the Catholic Church, and drink a Chianti from a bottle wrapped in raffia.  

This week we discuss John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost. We drink a fire and iced tea, eat smokey cheese, and contemplate the sexy version of Satan that is very strange.  Oh, and we complain about how long this poem is. 

On this episode we discuss the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and partake of a Corpse Reviver: part 2,. 

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As it's Amanda's birthday month, we are delighting in drinking Corpse Revivers while discussing Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart,  cousin love way too young, and thirst letters before Twitter was a thing. 

This week's short story rounds out Pride month with Amanda covering the two bad boys of French Poetry, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. 

 This week's episode is dedicated to melancholy and ouzo as we discuss the works of the poet Sappho. Often maligned, never duplicated, Sappho is a little hard to pin down as quite a bit of her history has been lost or glossed over with satire.  

A quick look to celebrate Margaret Wise Brown.