Sophomore Lit
Hosted by John McCoy
A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
171 Frank O’Connor Stories
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.”
Previous Episodes
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January 10, 2025170 Emily Dickinson Poems
Forever is composed of podcasts. Caroline Fulford discusses selected poems by Emily Dickinson (c. 1860-65).
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December 24, 2024
169 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Cigars are always trouble. Marina McCoy discusses Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972).
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December 6, 2024
168 The Time of Your Life
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).
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November 27, 2024
167 Thanksgiving Special: Comfort Reads
Hey, things are tough. The McCoy Bros, Rob, John, and Dan, discuss the books that get them through.
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November 19, 2024
166 The Owl Service
Ross Cleaver returns to talk owls, plates, and Welsh mythology in Alan Garner’s The Owl Service (1967).
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October 25, 2024
165 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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).
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September 26, 2024
164 Lysistrata
What’s more cultivated and genteel than classical theater? David Loehr discusses Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)
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September 5, 2024
163 The Twenty-One Balloons
Because twenty would be too few and twenty-two would be ridiculous. Shaenon K. Garrity discusses William Pène du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons (1947).
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August 13, 2024
162 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Rain Main meets Air Bud. Dan McCoy discusses stims and happy endings and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003).
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July 15, 2024
161 A Canticle for Leibowitz
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a bunch of monks sitting around copying stuff. Jelani Sims returns to discuss Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959).