

Sophomore Lit
John McCoy
A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
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Jul 26, 2021 • 55min
116: Kerouac and Ginsberg
Gena Radcliffe and John don’t blab any drab gab—they chatter hep patter about Jack Kerouac’s “October in the Railroad Earth” (1957) and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (1954-55).
John McCoy with Gena Radcliffe
Referenced Works
Howl
October in the Railroad Earth
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Jul 3, 2021 • 52min
115: Flowers for Algernon
I no I wil be smart won day. Until thin I will diskus Daniel Keyes’s epistolary novel Flowers for Algernon (1966) with Jason Snell.
John McCoy with Jason Snell
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Flowers for Algernon
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Jun 23, 2021 • 1h 3min
114: Dracula
Please invite in Jelani Lee and Matt Skuta to discuss Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). We can’t start until you do.
John McCoy with Jelani Sims and Matt Skuta
Referenced Works
Dracula
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May 21, 2021 • 1h 6min
113: Hans Christian Andersen
Let’s all hunker around this match and discuss some of the tales by Hans Christian Andersen. David Loehr returns.
John McCoy with David J. Loehr
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Apr 30, 2021 • 53min
112: George Orwell Essays
It’s phraseology and pachyderms, as Daniel Daughetee discusses Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” (1946) and “Shooting an Elephant” (1936).
John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee
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Mar 31, 2021 • 60min
111: Our Town
Enjoy every, every minute of Phil and John discussing Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938).
John McCoy with Phil Gonzales
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Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 18min
110: Persuasion
Maybe you should consider listening to this episode, in which Sammi C. discusses Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1817). Actually, we must insist.
John McCoy with Sammi C
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Dec 25, 2020 • 16min
109: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Marina McCoy returns to discuss faith, fairies, and newspapers in Francis Pharcellus Church’s “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” (1897).
John McCoy with Marina McCoy
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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
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Dec 23, 2020 • 50min
108: The Crucible
Why am I persecuted here? Travis Bedard discusses Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible.
John McCoy with Travis Bedard
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The Crucible
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Nov 26, 2020 • 19min
107: Trees
I think that I will never see brothers so drunk as we three. Drunken Thanksgiving continues this year with Rob, Dan, and John discussing Joyce Kilmer’s Trees (1914).
John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy
Referenced Works
Trees
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