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Sophomore Lit – Details, episodes & analysis

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Sophomore Lit

John McCoy

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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 173

A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Books
08/04/2025
#92

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173: The Visit

Episode 173

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 • Duration 46:04

Make money fast with this one weird trick. Glenn Fleishman discusses Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit (1956).

John McCoy with Glenn Fleishman.

172: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Episode 172

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 • Duration 37:06

And indeed there will be time to discuss this, the most mid-life white-guy crisis poem of all. Lisa Schmeiser discusses T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915).

John McCoy with Lisa Schmeiser.

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171: Frank O'Connor Stories

Episode 171

Monday, February 3, 2025 • Duration 58:20

I’ve heard it said by men of wide experience that podcasts used to be better in the old days. Kieran Healy discusses three short stories by Frank O’Connor: “First Confession,” “The Majesty of the Law,” and “Guests of the Nation.”

John McCoy with Kieran Healy.

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170: Emily Dickinson Poems

Episode 170

Friday, January 10, 2025 • Duration 01:00:09

Forever is composed of podcasts. Caroline Fulford discusses selected poems by Emily Dickinson (c. 1860-65).

John McCoy with Caroline Fulford and Marina McCoy.

169: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Episode 169

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 • Duration 24:57

Cigars are always trouble. Marina McCoy discusses Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972).

John McCoy with Marina McCoy.

168: The Time of Your Life

Episode 168

Friday, December 6, 2024 • Duration 01:01:03

Sometimes you want to go where everybody is a thread in the fabric of the human condition. Also they know your name. Phil Gonzales discusses William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939).

John McCoy with Phil Gonzales.

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167: Thanksgiving Special: Comfort Reads

Episode 167

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 • Duration 24:43

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

John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy.

166: The Owl Service

Episode 166

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 • Duration 44:18

Ross Cleaver returns to talk owls, plates, and Welsh mythology in Alan Garner’s The Owl Service (1967).

John McCoy with Ross Cleaver.

165: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Episode 165

Friday, October 25, 2024 • Duration 58:06

This episode has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. Jacob Haller tries to make sense of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979).

John McCoy with Jacob Haller.

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164: Lysistrata

Episode 164

Thursday, September 26, 2024 • Duration 49:23

What’s more cultivated and genteel than classical theater? David Loehr discusses Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)

John McCoy with David J. Loehr.

Sophomore Lit – Details, episodes & analysis

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