
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!
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 180 | Founded | 11 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksArts | |||

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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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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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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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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I’ve been really enjoying listening to John’s podcasts for the last five years, always playing some every night. I just wish some of his guests would make more of an effort to modulate their voice for radio. Eg JSim though such an intelligent contributor has a nasal tone that really irritates me.
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Perhaps I just happened to pick the wrong first episode to listen to and the hosts were having an off day, but I found the discussion to be mostly summary and shallow complaints. I was hoping for something more insightful.
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