

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

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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Dec 8, 2016 • 1h 10min
37: The Giver
When it comes to these podcasts, we give and give and you take and take! But that’s okay, because this time Matt Skuta and I are discussing Lois Lowry’s The Giver.
John McCoy with Matt Skuta
Show Notes & Links
Matt Skuta
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Dec 3, 2016 • 1h 9min
36: The Seagull
In mourning for your life? Then why not join Ethan Warren and John as they discuss Anton Chekov’s The Seagull.
John McCoy
Show Notes & Links
West of Her
Stage of Fools
Bernd Krueger
Excerpt from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by Bernd Krueger, cc-by-sa Germany License
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Nov 24, 2016 • 35min
35: The Courtship of Miles Standish
Look, it’s Thanksgiving and Dan and I are drunk. Let’s discuss Longfellow’s The Courtship of Miles Standish.
John McCoy with Dan McCoy
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Oct 30, 2016 • 1h 10min
34: Crime and Punishment
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. We’re talking about 600 pages of time. Zach Powers joins the discussion of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
John McCoy
Show Notes & Links
The Revisionists
Stage of Fools
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Oct 21, 2016 • 55min
33: Stories of Ambrose Bierce
It’s a good thing the rope broke so now we have time to talk about Ambrose Bierce’s “A Horseman in the Sky” and “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Spencer Seams of coming podcast Tune In Tonight is here to discuss stories that end happily with no surprises!
John McCoy
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