A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
LATEST EPISODE •
Spoon River…wider than a mile. Okay, now that we have that out of our way, join Lisa Schmeiser as we discuss Edgar Lee Master’s poetic collection *Spoon River Anthology *(1915).
September 9, 2021 • 54 minutes • John McCoy with Lisa Schmeiser
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Anarchy in the U. K. (LeGuin)! David Woken talks a lot of politics and a little story as we discuss The Dispossessed (1974).
August 19, 2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute • John McCoy with David Woken
Gena Radcliffe and John don’t blab any drab gab—they chatter hep patter about Jack Kerouac’s “October in the Railroad Earth” (1957) and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (1954-55).
July 26, 2021 • 54 minutes • John McCoy with Gena Radcliffe
I no I wil be smart won day. Until thin I will diskus Daniel Keyes’s epistolary novel Flowers for Algernon (1966) with Jason Snell.
July 3, 2021 • 51 minutes • John McCoy with Jason Snell
Please invite in Jelani Lee and Matt Skuta to discuss Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). We can’t start until you do.
June 23, 2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes • John McCoy with Jelani Sims and Matt Skuta
Let’s all hunker around this match and discuss some of the tales by Hans Christian Andersen. David Loehr returns.
May 21, 2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes • John McCoy with David J. Loehr
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
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