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Sophomore Lit

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John McCoy

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!

#182

182: The Watch House

Who watches the Watch House? Not us, the book is better. Ross Cleaver returns to discuss R... more

09 Dec 2025

48 MINS

48:41

09 Dec 2025

#181

181: Thanksgiving Special: Protest Songs

The answer, my friend…is not a lyric in the any of the songs the McCoy Brothers disc... more

26 Nov 2025

35 MINS

35:11

26 Nov 2025

#180

180: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Podcasts could happen to anyone. David Loehr discusses exits and entrances in Tom Stoppard... more

10 Nov 2025

49 MINS

49:27

10 Nov 2025

#179

179: The Last Unicorn

Don’t it allways seem to go, you don’t know what unicorns you got til they&#82... more

08 Oct 2025

34 MINS

34:35

08 Oct 2025

#178

178: R.U.R.

BEEP boop what is… love? Well, we don’t figure this out, but John Siracusa doe... more

24 Sep 2025

51 MINS

51:43

24 Sep 2025

#177

177: The Pushcart War

Brush up on the Large Object Theory of History. Shaenon K. Garrity returns to discuss Jean... more

27 Aug 2025

51 MINS

51:50

27 Aug 2025

#176

176: Walden, or Life in the Woods

If you’re suffering from Quiet Desparation, why not listen to the not-so-quiet voice... more

18 Jul 2025

56 MINS

56:51

18 Jul 2025

#175

175: Elizabeth Bishop Poems

Somebody loves us all. Rosalynde Vas Dias discusses three poems by Elizabeth Bishop: &#822... more

13 Jun 2025

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:49

13 Jun 2025

#174

174: The Chrysalids

Podcasts are the original voices in your head. David Dredrick discusses John Wyndham&#8217... more

23 Apr 2025

52 MINS

52:27

23 Apr 2025

#173

173: The Visit

Make money fast with this one weird trick. Glenn Fleishman discusses Friedrich Dürrenmatt&... more

18 Mar 2025

42 MINS

42:49

18 Mar 2025

#172

172: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

And indeed there will be time to discuss this, the most mid-life white-guy crisis poem of ... more

25 Feb 2025

37 MINS

37:06

25 Feb 2025

#171

171: Frank O'Connor Stories

I’ve heard it said by men of wide experience that podcasts used to be better in the ... more

03 Feb 2025

58 MINS

58:20

03 Feb 2025

#170

170: Emily Dickinson Poems

Forever is composed of podcasts. Caroline Fulford discusses selected poems by Emily Dickin... more

10 Jan 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:09

10 Jan 2025

#169

169: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Cigars are always trouble. Marina McCoy discusses Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christ... more

24 Dec 2024

24 MINS

24:57

24 Dec 2024

#168

168: The Time of Your Life

Sometimes you want to go where everybody is a thread in the fabric of the human condition.... more

06 Dec 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:03

06 Dec 2024

#167

167: Thanksgiving Special: Comfort Reads

Hey, things are tough. The McCoy Bros, Rob, John, and Dan, discuss the books that get them... more

27 Nov 2024

24 MINS

24:43

27 Nov 2024

#166

166: The Owl Service

Ross Cleaver returns to talk owls, plates, and Welsh mythology in Alan Garner’s The ... more

19 Nov 2024

44 MINS

44:05

19 Nov 2024

#165

165: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This episode has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly ... more

25 Oct 2024

58 MINS

58:06

25 Oct 2024

#164

164: Lysistrata

What’s more cultivated and genteel than classical theater? David Loehr discusses Ari... more

26 Sep 2024

49 MINS

49:23

26 Sep 2024

#163

163: The Twenty-One Balloons

Because twenty would be too few and twenty-two would be ridiculous. Shaenon K. Garrity dis... more

05 Sep 2024

53 MINS

53:51

05 Sep 2024

#162

162: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Rain Main meets Air Bud. Dan McCoy discusses stims and happy endings and Mark Haddon&#8217... more

13 Aug 2024

46 MINS

46:16