

Sophomore Lit
John McCoy
A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
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Nov 5, 2018 • 50min
76: An Enemy of the People
Election Day Special: What does a 19th Century play have to do with fake news and ecological disaster? Probably nothing, but Shannon Campe and Zach Powers are here nonetheless to discuss Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882).
John McCoy with Shannon Campe and Zach Powers
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Oct 26, 2018 • 54min
75: The War of the Worlds
No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty-first century that this podcast was being listened to keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. Jason Snell discusses H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1897).
John McCoy with Jason Snell
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Oct 16, 2018 • 57min
74: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Carla Curtsinger talks armadillos, armlessness, and all caps in John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany.
John McCoy with Carla Curtsinger
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Oct 3, 2018 • 50min
73: Holes
If only, if only the woodpecker cries, this podcast would adhere to a regular schedule. Matt Skuta returns to discuss Louis Sachar’s beloved middle-reader, Holes.
John McCoy with Matt Skuta
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Sep 21, 2018 • 45min
72: The Westing Game
Fun for the whole family! Ages 10 and up! Dan McCoy discusses Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game (1978).
John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Nathan Alderman
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Sep 4, 2018 • 2h 12min
71: William Carlos Williams
This is Just to Podcast
David Loehr and I will not be making
the obvious joke
that is just
sitting there
and which
you were probably
expecting
for a podcast about WCW
Forgive me
I am not a hack
John McCoy with David J. Loehr, Kathy Campbell, Moisés Chiullán, Steve Lutz and Jessica Epstein
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Aug 13, 2018 • 49min
70: Waiting for Godot
Nobody comes, nobody goes, but every few weeks we have a podcast, like this one where Brian Hamilton tries to make sense of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
John McCoy with Brian Hamilton
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Jul 20, 2018 • 1h 14min
69: Ulysses
Marina McCoy talks about Ulysses yes and Joyce and Ireland yes and jessamine and geraniums and cactuses yes and shall I wear a red yes
John McCoy with Marina McCoy
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Jul 7, 2018 • 1h 6min
68: Ender's Game
Can’t we play Catan instead? Liz Riegel joins to discuss that most emo young adult novel, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
John McCoy with Liz Riegel and Jason Snell
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Jun 23, 2018 • 1h 5min
67: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Hope you like the Smiths. Hayden Gibson discusses the modern classic of introvert life, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
John McCoy with Hayden Gibson and Brian Hamilton
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