Some people just want to watch the world burn. Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner discuss Nathaniel West’s 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust.
February 20, 2019 • 54 minutes • John McCoy with Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner
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Some people just want to watch the world burn. Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner discuss Nathaniel West’s 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust.
February 20, 2019 • 54 minutes • John McCoy with Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner
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We’ve never done a musical before / now all at once it’s Guys and Dolls forevermore. David Loehr discusses the original high school musical.
February 5, 2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes • John McCoy with David J. Loehr
Will we answer the Call of the Wild or will we say “new phone, who dis?” Laura Hayes discusses mushing, wolves, and the surprising amount of Socialism in Jack London’s 1903 novel.
January 15, 2019 • 49 minutes • John McCoy
There were always podcasts at Christmas. Pour some whiskey in your eggnog and join Rosalynde Vas Dias in discussing Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
December 24, 2018 • 44 minutes • John McCoy with Rosalynde Vas Dias
Hither and thither, the entire Snell Family is here to discuss Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (1895).
December 17, 2018 • 41 minutes • John McCoy with Jason Snell, Lauren Snell and Jamie Snell
Rise up and seize the methods of producing history textbooks! Daniel Daughhetee discusses the alternative textbook A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1980).
December 5, 2018 • 3 hours, 32 minutes • John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee
The horse knows the way—but to WHOSE house? The answer may surprise you. The McCoy Boys are all here for the annual drunk Thanksgiving episode to discuss Lydia Maria Child’s “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day” (1844).
November 22, 2018 • 19 minutes • John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Rob McCoy
Election Day Special: What does a 19th Century play have to do with fake news and ecological disaster? Probably nothing, but Shannon Campe and Zach Powers are here nonetheless to discuss Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882).
November 5, 2018 • 49 minutes • John McCoy with Shannon Campe and Zach Powers
No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty-first century that this podcast was being listened to keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. Jason Snell discusses H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1897).
October 26, 2018 • 54 minutes • John McCoy with Jason Snell
Carla Curtsinger talks armadillos, armlessness, and all caps in John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany.
October 16, 2018 • 57 minutes • John McCoy with Carla Curtsinger
If only, if only the woodpecker cries, this podcast would adhere to a regular schedule. Matt Skuta returns to discuss Louis Sachar’s beloved middle-reader, Holes.
October 3, 2018 • 49 minutes • John McCoy with Matt Skuta