Episodes
Episode 59: Stories to Tell During the Plague
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
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
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
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?
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
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
This week we talk about the highly impactful, talented poet, Audre Lorde.
Episode 52: James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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
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.