A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
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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
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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
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. However, podcasts are both. Ollie Brady discusses Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
May 14, 2019 • 52 minutes • John McCoy with Ollie Brady
Caroline Fulford returns to discuss a nice story about home decorating, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
April 24, 2019 • 32 minutes • John McCoy with Caroline Fulford
John’s wife, Marina, returns to discuss strange birds, hidden wheat, and barrel turkeys in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter.
March 27, 2019 • 41 minutes • John McCoy with Marina McCoy
Anaïs Concepcion returns to discuss necklaces, hypocrisy, and roasted chickens in jelly in Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace” and “Boule de Suif.”
March 8, 2019 • 44 minutes • John McCoy with Anaïs Concepcion
Some people just want to watch the world burn. Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner discuss Nathaniel West’s 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust.
February 20, 2019 • 1 hour • John McCoy with Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner
We’ve never done a musical before / now all at once it’s Guys and Dolls forevermore. David Loehr discusses the original high school musical.
February 5, 2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes • John McCoy with David J. Loehr