Unfortunately Required Reading

By Unfortunately Required Reading

Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass.... more

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The podcast currently has 139 episodes available.

Unfortunately Required Reading episodes:

December 21, 2024 That's Showbiz Kid (A Confederacy of Dunces)
This week Amanda and Victoria celebrate Victoria's birthday month with A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and the legacy of New Orleans.
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2h 9min
November 25, 2024 Inconceivable! Anybody want a Peanut? (The Princess Bride)
Somehow in this economy we get Baron Von Cheeseplate back on the show to discuss William Goldman's The Princess Bride, as well as how much we all hate that weird Evangelical puppet, Douglas.
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2h 26min
October 19, 2024 The Haunted Audio (Turn of the Screw)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Henry James' novella, The Turn of the Screw. After Daddy's Little Harbinger shows up (Mothman) our audio started to have some problems, the episode crashing twice. The rest of his death story is posted on UnfortunatelyRequiredReading.com for the curious.

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1h 37min
September 28, 2024 Diet Malthus (Ishmael)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the Daniel Quinn book of Socratic dialogue with a gorilla, Ishmael.
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1h 30min
August 31, 2024 This is My Roman Empire (I, Claudius)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Robert Graves' epic I, Claudius, and immediately questioning Graves' concepts of history.
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1h 19min
July 22, 2024 Episode 115: Word by Word (Bird by Bird)
Happy Birthday Month to Amanda! This month, we discuss Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird (and Victoria actually does the shortest short story long.)
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1h 6min
June 29, 2024 City of Naw (City of Night)
This month Amanda and Victoria discuss City of Night by John Rechy for Pride Month and discuss the old ways and the new of Queer community and acceptance.

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1h 28min
May 25, 2024 Following the White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)
Baron Von Cheeseplate joins Amanda and Victoria to discuss Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, and the impact of this work on pop culture.
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2h 14min
April 13, 2024 Little Scam on the Prairie (Little House on the Prairie)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, Manifest Destiny, the Minnesota Massacre, the lie of Westward expansion and why neither host can spell prairie.

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1h 28min
March 16, 2024 Basically, Just Real Life in Late Stage Capitalism (Fahrenheit 451)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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1h 36min

FAQs about Unfortunately Required Reading:

How many episodes does Unfortunately Required Reading have?

The podcast currently has 139 episodes available.