A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
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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
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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
Christmas isn’t Christmas without presents, and literary podcasts aren’t literary podcasts without an exhaustive conversation about Louisa May Alcott’s essential coming of age book. Shannon Campe discusses.
April 17, 2020 • 4 hours, 6 minutes • John McCoy with Shannon Campe
Happy 100th episode everybody! For this special Sophomore Lit, I asked random people what they remembered most about their high school literature classes.
February 29, 2020 • 34 minutes • John McCoy
Och, please dinnae make fun of non-Scottish people Darren Husted and John as they discuss and try to read aloud excerpts of Robert Burns’s “Tam O’ Shanter” (1791) and “To a Mouse” (1785).
February 21, 2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute • John McCoy with Darren Husted
You’re the Martian now, Dog! Jason Snell discusses frontiers and sad houses in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950).
January 21, 2020 • 55 minutes • John McCoy with Jason Snell and David J. Loehr
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