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Episode 100: The Dickens Episode

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2023 26:34


It's finally here! The Dickens Episode! It's okay to have complicated feelings about the man, but we have to admit that his works are important to our society and culture. Some of them, at least.

Goodbye

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2022 9:26


It's the last episode, but it's not too sad. I'm not going anywhere...not really.

Episode 99: Oh, Alabama

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 20:55


Winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird is still an important piece of American literature, we just need to adjust some things.

Episode 98: The Old Man Needed The Boy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2022 23:18


Talking about the 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Not gonna lie, Hemingway is most of the focus...but he should be.

Episode 97: The American Prize

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 11:35


This is a quick one, just some tidbits about the Pulitzer Prize before we begin our series on works that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Episode 96: Beowulf Told Me He's the Best II

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 17:39


Recast of original Episode 5, I get to talk about on of my favorite works ever, classic or not, Beowulf!

Episode 95: Manuscripts Do Burn, But It's Not Permanent

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2022 21:19


The Master and Margarita is one of the few books I'll cover on this podcast that actually has a rabid fanbase. So my job is easy, right?

Episode 94: The Wilde Recast!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 20:24


Juiced up recast of Episode 4 with some extra material. Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Grey are the case.

Episode 93: Burning the Candle at Both Ends

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2022 21:02


Puliter Prize winning American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is this case today.

Episode 92: W.B. Yeats

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 20:28


This week's case is about Irish poet William Butler Yeats and his works.

Episode 91: Episode 3 Redo!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 22:15


This isn't a full re-cast of Episode 3, this is mostly new material of me explaining why, OH WHY, I don't like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Episode 90: The Number of the Beast-Men

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2022 22:27


Let's get weird this week as we talk H.G. Wells' classic The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Episode 89: Reality Bites Nicely, Take Two

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2022 14:00


Recast of Episode 2 where I made a case for Gustave Flaubert's classics work Madame Bovary.

Episode 88: Mister Kurtz, I Presume

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2022 24:01


Joseph Conrad's work Heart of Darkness is the case this week, but I somehow added more love for T.S. Eliot and Hunter S. Thompson.

Episode 87: Episode 1 Redo!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 19:56


I'm going back and redoing some of my earlier episodes, improving and adding a bit. Today's is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451!

Episode 86: Wrong Translation!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 17:33


I read the wrong translation! Oh well, we're still going to talk about the woman who wrote this work, The Tale of Genji, and about the time in Japanese history that it represents. Good trivia here!

Episode 85: So Much Man, So Little Time

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 22:05


In honor of Black History Month, I talk about Frederick Douglass and, like, a fraction of his accomplishments. He was incredible.

Episode 84: The Haunting of Shirley

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2022 19:14


Shirley Jackson is the whole case this week. I've found that not only do I need to read more of her work, I also need to read a biography on her as well!

Episode 83: North of Hell, South of Heaven

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 21:25


North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is a great British book that has nothing to do with the American Civil War...I now know. But it's a fantastic read that I'm glad I found.

Episode 82: Ah, That's Tennyson!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2022 19:15


I'm back on poetry this week and I discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his works.

Episode 81: The State of the Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2022 9:26


With the New Year still fresh and shiny, I'm just doing a simple episode talking about the state of this humble little podcast.

Episode 80: bell hooks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2021 17:24


Today's case is about someone so cool, she didn't have to obey the rules of grammar! That's bell hooks and she was a writer who had several works that should be read by anyone identifying as human.

Episode 79: It‘s Creepy Either Way

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2021 21:58


The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a work that has no consensus from readers as to whether it's actually about ghosts or not. That just makes it more interesting.

Episode 78: The Nose Knows

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 14:55


We're talking about a great play in this episode! Cyrano de Bergerac is a terrific good time and I can't imagine you wanting to pass this one up!

Episode 77: Home is Where The Poet Is

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 18:41


In this episode, it's all about Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century.

Episode 76: You Need a Bigger Boat on the Danube!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 20:00


Algernon Blackwood's classic The Willows is a great short story, a true tale of horror for nature-lovers!

Episode 75: Bonus Filler: A Biography!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 10:23


This is another bonus episode recast, this one about a biography on Anais Nin titled, "ANAIS: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin" by Noel Riley Fitch. Check it out!

Episode 74: Save Rufus, Save It All

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 19:35


Octavia E. Butler's classic, Kindred is a work that transcends genre. I hadn't read it before, but I freaking loved it.

Episode 73: Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 22:30


Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, A Brave New World is today's subject. I almost departed from horror, but this still counts. Boy, does it ever.

Episode 72: Mysteries, Horrors, and Poe

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 19:52


In keeping with spooky season, I'm talking Edgar Allan Poe this week. But make no mistake, he wrote MUCH more than horror.

Episode 71: Insurance Won‘t Cover THAT

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 20:36


Since today is the Autumnal Equinox, I thought we'd go spooky with one of the truly seminal works of horror, The House on the Borderland.

Episode 70: Drama is Always Center Stage

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 18:55


Sense and Sensibility might be my second favorite Jane Austen work. I love the book, but hey, the movie hits it out of the park too!

Episode 69: Heads Will Roll in...OZ???

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 17:25


L. Frank Baum wrote the first American fairy tale with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It's a surprising book that no movie has yet lived up to.

Episode 68: Blue Men Do It Better

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 23:42


I make a case for Valmiki's culturally important epic poem, The Ramayana. There might be a flying monkey and a blue guy, but this is a SERIOUS work!

Episode 67: Movies Better Than Books? Blasphemy!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 12:01


It's another bonus episode, but it's a fun one where I lay down my movie adaptation-hating mantle and allow that sometimes, not only do movies get it right, they do it better. Sometimes.

Illogical Diagnoses of Madness

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 21:30


Let's talk circluar logic and a war book that is just plain fun with Joseph Heller's classic, Catch-22.

Episode 65: Bonus Dante's Inferno

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2021 10:56


It's another bonus episode from my Patreon days and it's a funny one about details from Dante's Inferno that I originally left out of the main show for fear of offending a listener. Oh well!

Episode 64: With a Name Like Ambrose, It Has to be Good!

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 20:11


Ambrose Bierce was a short story writer with an influence that is far-reaching. And he was a notorious grouch with an amazing name.

Episode 63: You Know What Bugs Me?

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 20:31


I'm talking about Franz Kafka's amazing (and short) work, The Metamorphosis! You need a BIG can of Raid for this one.

Episode 62: Another Exiled Genius

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 20:43


Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the greatest epic poems in the Latin language. Myths, gods, heroes, and and endless stream of rape victims. It's harsh, but absolutely worth a read.

Episode 61: Patreon Bonus: Douglas Adams

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 10:21


I need a little more time for the next two episodes, so please enjoy this Bonus Episode from my Patreon!

Episode 60: Euripides Wrote Plays That Please!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2021 19:24


No particular case this week, as I wanted to talk about an Ancient Athenian playwright who wrote plays that are STILL being produced!

Episode 59: Stories to Tell During the Plague

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 19:32


With hope for an end in sight, I thought it was time to finally talk about Giovanni Boccaccio's plague-set book, The Decameron.

Episode 58: Bad Baby

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 19:09


This week we talk about Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning classic, Beloved. It's spoiler-lite, so please do your best to keep this book a surprise before you read it.

Episode 57: A Little Bonus in Your Coffee

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 18:17


This week is a little something special, a little something different. It's a bonus episode from my Patreon account, which I'm shutting down, on Stephen King's Rose Madder. Enjoy!

Episode 56: America the Bleak

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 20:52


Let's talk AMERICA and how it was portrayed, lovingly believe it or not, by Sinclair Lewis in his work Main Street.

Episode 55: Excuse Me, How Many Pulitzer Prizes?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2021 19:42


He's a great poet for beginners and old hat poetry fans alike! This week, I make a case for a man who won FOUR Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, Robert Frost.

Episode 54: War is Hell...End of Story

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 20:15


Listener request! I make a case for Erich Maria Remarque's WWI classic, All Quiet on the Western Front. I'm glad to have read this book.

Episode 53: Audre Lorde

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 18:05


This week we talk about the highly impactful, talented poet, Audre Lorde.

Episode 52: James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 20:00


In honor of Black History Month, I wanted to highlight two Black American creators of classical works. First is James Baldwin and his work, The Fire Next Time.

Episode 51: The Grouchy Butterfly Guy

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2021 16:15


It's the end of the Russian Literature Miniseries and I end it on a man and not a work. Wires got crossed, but we still talk about an interesting man, Vladimir Nabokov.

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