Episodes
Episode 70: Drama is Always Center Stage
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???
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
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!
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.
Episode 66: Illogical Diagnoses of Madness
Let’s talk circular logic and a war book that is just plain fun with Joseph Heller’s classic, Catch-22.
Episode 65: Bonus Dante’s Inferno
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!
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?
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
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.