Sophomore Lit

Hosted by John McCoy

A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.

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Latest Episode: September 7, 2023

148 History of the Peloponnesian War

Host John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee

Kids today love Thucydides, right? Anyone? Daniel Daughhetee returns to discuss this late fifth century BCE chronicle of Athens v. Sparta.

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Previous Episodes

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    August 7, 2023
    147 James Thurber
    Host John McCoy with Dan Cassino

    It’s a naive literary podcast without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption. Dan Cassino discusses James Thurber’s “The Catbird Seat” (1942) and The 13 Clocks (1950).

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    July 18, 2023
    146 Through the Looking-Glass
    Host John McCoy with Phil Gonzales

    If you’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast, why not listen to this podcast before lunch? Phil Gonzales discusses Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).

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    July 3, 2023
    145 The Grapes of Wrath
    Host John McCoy with Shelly Brisbin

    After eight years of the podcast I finally do the inevitable. Shelly Brisbin discusses John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939).

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    June 10, 2023
    144 Howl’s Moving Castle
    Host John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Audrey Lazaro

    Howl likes to move it, move it. Audrey Lazaro and Dan McCoy are on to discuss Diana Wynne Jones’s book Howl’s Moving Castle (1986).

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    May 12, 2023
    143 Long Day’s Journey Into Night
    Host John McCoy with Kris Markel

    I don’t care how long this day’s journey has been, so help me I will turn this car around if you kids don’t stop. Kris Markel discusses Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night(written 1941, published 1956).

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    April 18, 2023
    142 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    Host John McCoy with Glenn Fleishman

    Jean, Jean, the roses are red and all of the leaves have gone green, so Glenn Fleishman and John are discussing Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961).

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    April 3, 2023
    141 Carrie’s War
    Host John McCoy with Ross Cleaver

    Ross Cleaver discusses Carrie’s War (what is it good for?), Nina Bawdwin’s 1973 children’s book about evacuations, skulls, and grumpy Welshmen.

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    March 20, 2023
    140 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
    Host John McCoy

    Grab a whisky and soda and put your leg up. My dad and I discuss Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936). Bonus content: a visit to the Hemingway Home in Key West!

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    March 2, 2023
    139 Beloved
    Host John McCoy with Jelani Sims

    Jelani Sims returns to discuss the literal and metaphorical ghosts of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved (1987).

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    January 20, 2023
    138 Great Expectations
    Host John McCoy with Zach Powers

    I have good feelings about this one! Zach Powers returns to discuss desparate criminals and mysterious benefactors in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861).

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