Episodes
Episode 41: Pronouncing Goethe Correctly Feels Wrong
We talk deals with the devil and real life alchemists while I make a case for Goethe’s Faust.
Episode 40: Howl for All of Us
It’s another poem this week, but it’s a hip poem by one of the original hip fellas. Howl by Allen Ginsberg.
Episode 39: The Life and Death Importance of a Good Cliffhanger
I make a case for a book this week that I absolutely love, 1,001 Arabian Nights. A book about a patient woman and her long game.
Episode 38: En Garde, Monsieur Pussycat!
Alexandre Dumas graces us again as I make a case for the long, but delightful work, The Three Musketeers. And I didn’t cry struggling through French pronunciations!
Episode 37: Guys Talking About Stuff
Prepare to be neck-deep in Ancient Greek philosophy as I make a case for Plato’s The Republic! Don’t worry, you won’t drown. I promise.
Episode 36: Edmund, The Cringe King
This week, I’m feeling the spice and gloom of October and am covering one of gothic literature’s foundational works, The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve.
Episode 35: Taking My Ball and Going to Hell
I don’t think John Milton meant to write an aspirational text for non-conformists, but Paradise Lost is sometimes taken that way. Satan is goals? Okay then!
Episode 34: James Joyce and Paranoid, Confused Youth
This week I make a case for James Joyce’s first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I didn’t talk in detail about those letters to his wife and feel I deserve a prize for that.
Episode 33: Go Ask Alice When She Was Just Small
It’s nonsense and whimsy this week as I make a case for Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.