A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
LATEST EPISODE •
It’s phraseology and pachyderms, as Daniel Daughetee discusses Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” (1946) and “Shooting an Elephant” (1936).
April 30, 2021 • 53 minutes • John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee
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Enjoy every, every minute of Phil and John discussing Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938).
March 31, 2021 • 59 minutes • John McCoy with Phil Gonzales
Maybe you should consider listening to this episode, in which Sammi C. discusses Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1817). Actually, we must insist.
March 8, 2021 • 1 hour, 17 minutes • John McCoy with Sammi C
Marina McCoy returns to discuss faith, fairies, and newspapers in Francis Pharcellus Church’s “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” (1897).
December 25, 2020 • 15 minutes • John McCoy with Marina McCoy
Why am I persecuted here? Travis Bedard discusses Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible.
December 23, 2020 • 49 minutes • John McCoy with Travis Bedard
I think that I will never see brothers so drunk as we three. Drunken Thanksgiving continues this year with Rob, Dan, and John discussing Joyce Kilmer’s Trees (1914).
November 26, 2020 • 19 minutes • John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy
Who cares who John Galt is? Bridget Kennedy discusses the geniuses and moochers of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957).
October 31, 2020 • 56 minutes • John McCoy with Bridget Kennedy
Jelani Sims returns to discuss Richard Wright’s 1940 wake-up call, Native Son.
September 24, 2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes • John McCoy with Jelani Sims
O Captain, My Captain, the podcast has begun! Daniel Daughetee discusses two Whitman poems about Lincoln.
August 25, 2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes • John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee
I considered posting an hour of static, but instead here’s Erin Gambrill and me discussing Don Delillo’s postmodern novel White Noise (1985).
July 4, 2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes • John McCoy with Erin Gambrill
Last night I dreamed I did a podcast again. It seemed to me that Gena Radcliffe discussed Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (1935).
June 11, 2020 • 47 minutes • John McCoy with Gena Radcliffe