Episodios

  • 180: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

    180: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
    Nov 10 2025
    Podcasts could happen to anyone. David Loehr discusses exits and entrances in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (first performed 1966, published 1967).

    John McCoy with David J. Loehr.
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    49 m
  • 179: The Last Unicorn

    179: The Last Unicorn
    Oct 8 2025
    Don’t it allways seem to go, you don’t know what unicorns you got til they’re gone. Kathy Campbell discusses Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 The Last Unicorn.

    John McCoy with Kathy Campbell.
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    35 m
  • 178: R.U.R.

    178: R.U.R.
    Sep 24 2025
    BEEP boop what is… love? Well, we don’t figure this out, but John Siracusa does return to Sophomore Lit to discuss Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920), the origin of the word “robot.”

    John McCoy with John Siracusa.
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    52 m
  • 177: The Pushcart War

    177: The Pushcart War
    Aug 27 2025
    Brush up on the Large Object Theory of History. Shaenon K. Garrity returns to discuss Jean Merrill’s The Pushcart War (1964).

    John McCoy with Shaenon K. Garrity.
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    52 m
  • 176: Walden, or Life in the Woods

    176: Walden, or Life in the Woods
    Jul 18 2025
    If you’re suffering from Quiet Desparation, why not listen to the not-so-quiet voices of Dan Daughhetee and me discussing Henrey David Thoreau’s Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)?

    John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee.
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    57 m
  • 175: Elizabeth Bishop Poems

    175: Elizabeth Bishop Poems
    Jun 13 2025
    Somebody loves us all. Rosalynde Vas Dias discusses three poems by Elizabeth Bishop: “Sestina” (1956), “Filling Station” (1956), and “Crusoe in England” (1971).

    John McCoy with Rosalynde Vas Dias and Marina McCoy.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • 174: The Chrysalids

    174: The Chrysalids
    Apr 23 2025
    Podcasts are the original voices in your head. David Dredrick discusses John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids (1955).

    John McCoy with David Dedrick.
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    52 m
  • 173: The Visit

    173: The Visit
    Mar 18 2025
    Make money fast with this one weird trick. Glenn Fleishman discusses Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit (1956).

    John McCoy with Glenn Fleishman.
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    43 m