A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
LATEST EPISODE •
You’re the Martian now, Dog! Jason Snell discusses frontiers and sad houses in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950).
January 21, 2020 • 56 minutes • John McCoy with Jason Snell and David J. Loehr
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It’s fruitcake weather! John and Marina discuss memory, dog bones, and kites in Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” (1956).
December 24, 2019 • 30 minutes • John McCoy with Marina McCoy
It’s a big long book about Victorian religion and railroad investments! Daniel Reifferscheid discusses Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh (1903).
December 18, 2019 • 1 hour • John McCoy with Daniel Reifferscheid
There is no joy in Mudville. My brother Dan discusses “Casey at the Bat” (1888). Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2019 • 24 minutes • John McCoy with Dan McCoy
And still bellowing he came. Jacob Haller discusses William Faulkner’s “The Bear” (1942).
November 16, 2019 • 1 hour, 5 minutes • Jacob Haller
Does anybody really know what time it is? Zach Powers discusses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway.
October 27, 2019 • 4 hours, 32 minutes • John McCoy with Zach Powers and Jean MacDonald
I promise we won’t make any jokes about losing our heads. Sarah Ifft Decker discusses Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
September 18, 2019 • 57 minutes • John McCoy with Sarah Ifft Decker
We didn’t mention that the titular Sword is not the same thing as Excalibur because you already knew that. Rosalynde Vas Dias discusses T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone (1938).
August 31, 2019 • 48 minutes • John McCoy with Rosalynde Vas Dias
There is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about in boats, except maybe messing about in podcasts. Erin Gambrill discusses The Wind in the Willows.
August 9, 2019 • 43 minutes • John McCoy with Erin Gambrill and Kelly Guimont
John Siracusa returns to discuss Edwin Abbott’s Flatland (1884). Will it give us a new perspective or will it leave us flat? (Spoiler, John hated it.)
July 5, 2019 • 51 minutes • John McCoy with John Siracusa
After four failed IPOs, we’re sure this one will work! Dan McCoy discusses Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business (1970).
June 12, 2019 • 49 minutes • Dan McCoy