

Sophomore Lit
John McCoy
John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jul 7, 2017 • 59min
47: The Handmaid's Tale
Before the Hulu series that everyone told you you had to watch was the Margaret Atwood novel that everyone told you you had to read. Caroline Fulford returns to discuss dystopias and how to tell your waves of feminism apart.
John McCoy with Caroline Fulford and Erika Ensign
Show Notes & Links
Loose Canon Podcast (Caroline Fulford)
Lazy Doctor Who (Erika Ensign, reading)
Apocalypse Graffiti (Malcom Nygard, theme music)
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Jun 27, 2017 • 55min
46: Annie John
Sometimes, a girl just wants to play marbles. Kwame Phillips discusses the Caribbean, doctor fish, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John.
John McCoy with Kwame Phillips and Jane Dempsey
Show Notes & Links
Kwame Phillips
Malcolm Nygard (theme music)
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Jun 8, 2017 • 51min
45: Hawthorne tales
Unsightly blemishes! Toxic maidens! David Loehr returns to discuss two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.”
John McCoy with David J. Loehr
Show Notes & Links
David J. Loehr (co-host)
Jason Snell (reading)
Malcolm Nygard (theme music)
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May 2, 2017 • 60min
44: Invisible Man
And you thought your electric bill was nuts. Jane Dempsey returns to discuss Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
John McCoy with Jane Dempsey
Show Notes & Links
Jane Dempsey (co-host)
Malcolm Nygard (theme music)
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Apr 10, 2017 • 58min
43: The Glass Menagerie
It’s nothing a little glue won’t fix. David Loehr is here to discuss Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.
John McCoy
Show Notes & Links
David Loehr (co-host)
Deep in Bear Country (Phil Gonzales, reading)
Apoc Graffiti (Malcolm Nygard, theme music)
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Mar 30, 2017 • 1h 4min
42: The Stranger
Do you cry at funerals? If not, maybe you’re the protagonist of Albert Camus’s The Stranger. Matt Skuta returns to puzzle this absurd novel out.
Matt Skuta
Show Notes & Links
Wikipedia's entry on The Stranger
Guest Host Matt Skuta
Theme song by Malcolm Nygard
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Mar 1, 2017 • 52min
41: Forever...
Guys let’s all be mature about this. Shannon Campe returns to discuss Judy Blume’s forbidden book for teens, “Forever…”
John McCoy with Shannon Campe
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Feb 3, 2017 • 50min
40: Absalom, Absalom!
Ashley Challinor and John spend a long still hot weary dead September afternoon discussing not merely a Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner, nor yet the ideal of the great Southern novel, but in fact the very podcast of an ideal of a thought of a concept of a the becoming of a book.
John McCoy
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Jan 26, 2017 • 60min
39: Slaughterhouse Five
We return to both Kurt Vonnegut and to Jason Snell, as we discuss the most famous book about time and birdsong ever written, Slaughterhouse Five.
John McCoy with Jason Snell
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Dec 19, 2016 • 57min
38: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Are you unsure of how candles work? Then join Megan Tripp and John as we discuss the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
John McCoy with Megan Tripp
Show Notes & Links
Not Another Bad Movie Podcast
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