Sophomore Lit

Feb 25 2025 172 ep. 58 mins 2.2k

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

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172: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Feb 25 2025 37 mins

And indeed there will be time to discuss this, the most mid-life white-guy crisis poem of all. Lisa Schmeiser discusses T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)....

171: Frank O'Connor Stories

Feb 03 2025 58 mins

I’ve heard it said by men of wide experience that podcasts used to be better in the old days. Kieran Healy discusses three short stories by Frank O’Connor: “First Confession,” “The Majesty of the Law,” and “Guests of the Nation.”...

170: Emily Dickinson Poems

Jan 10 2025 60 mins

Forever is composed of podcasts. Caroline Fulford discusses selected poems by Emily Dickinson (c. 1860-65)....

169: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Dec 24 2024 24 mins

Cigars are always trouble. Marina McCoy discusses Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972)....

168: The Time of Your Life

Dec 06 2024 61 mins

Sometimes you want to go where everybody is a thread in the fabric of the human condition. Also they know your name. Phil Gonzales discusses William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939)....

167: Thanksgiving Special: Comfort Reads

Nov 27 2024 24 mins

Hey, things are tough. The McCoy Bros, Rob, John, and Dan, discuss the books that get them through....

166: The Owl Service

Nov 19 2024 44 mins

Ross Cleaver returns to talk owls, plates, and Welsh mythology in Alan Garner’s The Owl Service (1967)....

165: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Oct 25 2024 58 mins

This episode has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. Jacob Haller tries to make sense of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)....

164: Lysistrata

Sep 26 2024 49 mins

What’s more cultivated and genteel than classical theater? David Loehr discusses Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)...

163: The Twenty-One Balloons

Sep 05 2024 53 mins

Because twenty would be too few and twenty-two would be ridiculous. Shaenon K. Garrity discusses William PÃ¨ne du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons (1947)....