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Unfortunately Required Reading episodes
- 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.
2 hr 9 min - 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.2 hr 26 min
- 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.1 hr 37 min
- Diet Malthus (Ishmael)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the Daniel Quinn book of Socratic dialogue with a gorilla, Ishmael.
1 hr 30 min - 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.1 hr 19 min
- 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.)1 hr 6 min
- 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.1 hr 28 min
- 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.
2 hr 14 min - 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.
1 hr 28 min - Basically, Just Real Life in Late Stage Capitalism (Fahrenheit 451)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
1 hr 36 min
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Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass.