Podcasts by Oh No! Lit Class
Oh No! Lit Class is a semi-educational comedy literature podcast hosted by Megan and RJ, two bitter English grads who are here to tell you all the weird and sexy things you never knew about the books you had to read in school. Let
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98: It's Not Easy Being the Green Knight from 2021-12-28T04:00
Um, hey, how's it going? Megan and RJ return from the void to bring you Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, a poem from Arthurian legend full of fun and games, including"Decapitation with Friends,""I'...
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97: How the Grinch Got Cancelled from 2021-03-25T03:30
It's one fish, two fish, red fish, racism fish as we dive into the dark underbelly of Dr. Seuss (no, seriously). Learn which of his whimsical rhymes Have Not Aged Well and about his takes on Japane...
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96: Rent Owes Maya Angelou an Apology (and So Do We) from 2021-02-18T01:00
We're blaming Rent: The Musical for mispronouncing Maya Angelou's last name all these years because we can. And because it's just another reason to hate Rent. We're also reading her poetry. That to...
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95: The Divine Comedy Part 2: Take a Left at Lucifer's Junk, You Can't Miss It from 2021-02-04T02:15
Happy 4th birthday to us! What did we get ourselves to celebrate? Ah, nothing much, just the epic tale of two pedantic idiots fighting over possession of The Last Brain Cell as they make their dram...
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87: The Phantom of The Hockey Rink from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Christine, I am The Angel of Music, and you must never touch my mask...seriously, have you ever taken a puck to the face unprotected? Brutal." It's Halloween, and you know what that means: Spooky ...
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83: Romeo and Juliet - Young, Dumb, and Full of...You Know ;) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It's a real Throwback Thursday of an episode: Shakespeare! Vin Diesel reminding us of the importance of family! Rampant horniness! (Wait, that's just Shakespeare again) Off-key singing! Incorrect i...
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94: The Divine Comedy Part 1: Dante Alighieri - Short, Shredded King? from 2021-01-21T03:00
ON!LC is back and we're taking things in a new direction: straight to hell! Specifically, the Inferno, as we lay out the biography of Dante Alighieri and the historical context for The Divine Comed...
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93: Dewey Decimal System? No, We Don’t! from 2020-12-24T07:00
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the'cast, Megan and RJ had lost it at last. Answering listener questions about which authors to date, and which authors they'd choose to punch auth...
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93: Dewey Decimal System? No, We Don’t! from 2020-12-24T07:00
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the 'cast, Megan and RJ had lost it at last. Answering listener questions about which authors to date, and which authors they'd choose to punch ...
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92: Grogu in Wonderland from 2020-12-10T07:00
We'll get this out of the way now: No, we haven't watched season 2 of The Mandalorian. Yes, we know his name is Grogu. Now. After calling him Gorgu 500 times. Oops. Hey, it's all part of falling do...
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91: Who's Afraid of Virgender Woolf? from 2020-11-26T07:00
This Thanksgiving, be thankful your significant other doesn't expect you to pull a Virginia Woolf and write them a stealth love letter in the form of the celebrated and experimental genderbending n...
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90: Victor Hugo Said ACAB from 2020-11-12T08:00
Do you hear the people sing? Megan and RJ sure do as they get all kinds of Les Miserables on this special Patreon-request episode. Learn why no matter what time it is, it's always Time For Victor H...
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89: Paul Hollywood IS Mrs. De Winter IN Rebecca from 2020-10-29T09:00
So...there's an acclaimed spooky Gothic novel called Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and there's a new original movie on Netflix also called Rebecca and, in theory, this episode is about that, and NOT...
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88: We're Gonna Goose Your Bumps from 2020-10-15T23:30
Listener beware, you're in for a scare, Megan and RJ are here to give you Goosebumps! Learn all about R.L. Stine, the man behind the bumps, plus: Hairy Adoption Alternatives,"What's the Deal with K...
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86: Is the Evil Fairy Who Cursed Your Dick a Girlboss? from 2020-09-17T04:00
In this episode, Megan and RJ ask: What killed John Keats, arguably the softest of the Softboi Romantic poets? Lord Byron and Percy Shelley blame mean reviews, but we're *pretty* sure it was the tu...
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85: Clear Eyes, One Nut, Can't Lose from 2020-09-03T06:00
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL??? By which we mean a book about football. Specifically, Friday Night Lights, journalist H.G. Bissinger's journey to Odessa, Texas, a town so obsessed with its high ...
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84: Let's Get Lit(erary Theory) from 2020-08-20T04:00
Life has thrown a lot at Megan and RJ lately, and so instead of a normal episode, they're going to explain lit theory, because that's easier somehow? Thrill as Megan threatens long-dead literary cr...
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82: Frederick Douglass Could Beat Up Alexander Hamilton from 2020-07-23T06:00
Sure, he was born about 14 years after Hamilton died but our point still stands. In an ON!LC first, we cover a memoir: The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Highlights includ...
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81: Soothing Whale Sounds With RJ from 2020-07-09T04:00
In this episode, we cover author Witi Ihimaera and his culturally influential novel, Whale Rider, and learn the dangers of not properly appreciating your great-grandchildren, the (continuing) fine ...
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80: The Glass Malkovich (w/ Scottye Moore from BS Podcast Network) from 2020-06-25T04:00
In an episode that will go down in history alongside Ethan Frome and Of Mice and Men as"wow, that sure went off the rails fast,"podcasting maniac and aspiring world-record-holder Scottye Moore join...
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79: Troy 2 — Odysseus Is Back...and He's Pissed from 2020-06-11T09:00
The Odyssey aka Part 2 of Homer's epic poetic duo features what is perhaps the worst and also most horny travelogue of the ancient world as Odysseus battles and bangs his way home while Athena, arg...
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78: The Zero Chilliad from 2020-05-28T09:00
Get it? Because Achilles has zero chill? Megan and RJ also find themselves lacking chill as they attempt to navigate the first of Homer's epic poem duology, The Iliad, starting with the important q...
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77: So It Kurt Vonnegoes (w/ Rob Kristoffersen From Our Strange Skies) from 2020-05-14T09:00
There's no getting around it, this episode on Kurt Vonnegut's seminal novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, is big. It's all about time, space, war, trauma, and also, for no reason at all, French philosopher...
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76: The House on Mascot Street from 2020-04-30T07:00
What do Iowa tourism slogans, college mascots, Mel Gibson movie corrections, Miami Dolphins draft options, and institutionalized racism all have in common? Probably more than you think but mainly t...
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75: The Haunted Babysitters Club from 2020-04-16T09:00
If we could turn back time, we'd probably make Cher less of a major cornerstone on this episode about Henry James's spooky novella The Turn of the Screw but it's too late for that now! RJ makes his...
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March Mini-Madness 4: Adaptation-Hating with The Narcissist Cookbook from 2020-03-31T09:00
We're at the razor's edge of madness as Matt Johnston aka The Narcissist Cookbook joins Megan to share his feelings on HBO's adaptation of the His Dark Materials novel series, which is that it suck...
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March Mini-Madness 3: Book-Huffing and Other Sins With Paul from Varmints! from 2020-03-26T09:00
March may be winding down but the madness continues with Paul Csomo, host of the amazing animal podcast Varmints! The exclamation point is part of the show's title but also indicative of the level ...
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March Mini-Madness 2: Witcher-Guessing With Joe from Life, Death, and Taxonomy from 2020-03-12T09:00
Witcher? I hardly know her! March Mini-Madness continues as Megan is given a lesson in Witcher Literature (Witcherature) by Joe Raspolich, co-host of Life, Death, and Taxonomy. We play guessin...
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March Mini-Madness 1: Book-Shaming With Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss from 2020-03-05T10:00
Our first entry into Miniaturized Madness in March is with Webby-nominated(!) Kate Wallinga, host of Ignorance Was Bliss. Megan and Kate ostensibly discuss the pointless pedantry of book-shaming so...
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74: Oh No! Clip Show from 2020-02-27T06:32
RJ has officially left ON!LC HQ and Megan is totally handling it super well (he's fine, it's fine, we're fine). Until your favorite book idiots are reunited, please enjoy this retrospective of some...
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73: Much Ado About Doin'It from 2020-02-14T05:08
We're celebrating our 3rd birthday with Big Willy Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and everyone's* invited! Ready your"no"face to learn why vicious sarcasm is the truest love language, how to ...
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72: Things Get Real on Beale from 2020-01-30T21:55
While we may be more equipped to talk about Sesame Street, in this episode we're covering If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Join us on a journey through a lyrical, tragic, beautiful stor...
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71: The Way the World Ends (Not With a Bang but a Meow) from 2020-01-16T18:40
Megan and RJ are prancing and dancing their way into 2020 like a regular pair of Jellicle cats as they take on T.S. Eliot and his wildly disparate body of work, including poems of fragmented existe...
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70: Crack Open a Cold Nut With the Boy from 2019-12-19T10:00
Megan and RJ attempt to atone for their episode 69-related sins with a dose of wholesome holiday cheer via ETA Hoffmann's classic Christmas tale, The Nutcracker! Wherein a potentially insane clockm...
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69 (Part 2): Holy Cow! Mr. Grey Will See You Now from 2019-12-05T10:00
Ok, for real this time: E. L. James and her Twilight Businessman BDSM fan fiction are here and Megan and RJ are going to do everything in their power to make it possibly even worse than it already ...
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69 (Part 1): Sort of a Grey Area from 2019-11-28T10:00
It's here. Episode 69. Which means it's time to gird your loins and put on your DJs. That's right, your Dom Jeans. Welcome to 50 Shades of Grey, Happy Thanksgiving, and also we're very sorry. Suppo...
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68: Robert Frost vs. the Soviet Union from 2019-11-14T10:00
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and we took the one that led to a dingdong joke, and that has made all the difference. It's time for some Robert Frost! RJ gets nihilistic about roads and salad...
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67: Just Vampire Gals Bein'Pals from 2019-10-31T09:00
In this episode, we learn that anything can happen on Halloween, including vampire lesbians as we read Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic, sapphic novella, Carmilla (or Mircalla, or Millarca...or Cla...
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66: The Hound of the Bastardvilles from 2019-10-17T09:00
Who's that Pokemon? It's Sherlock Holmes! It makes sense in context! We continue our Halloween celebration by dipping our toes into the deep, dark depths of the world of Sherlock Holmes and his sex...
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65: This Old (Haunted) House (w/ Moxie LaBouche from Your Brain on Facts) from 2019-10-03T09:00
It's the Season of Spooks and Scares and we're starting with Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, with the help of Moxie, host of Your Brain on Facts, who’s just FULL of facts...mostly abo...
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64: Not Another British War Drama from 2019-09-19T09:00
Like a candy bar offered to you by a creepy British man, sink your teeth into this episode as we cover another writer still kickin’ it with the modern classic, Atonement, where we learn how a young...
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Oh No! Law Class Episode 0: Ride that Horse to Justice from 2019-09-05T09:00
What, two episode drops in one day? And one of them is a pilot for a potential series where RJ actually TEACHES YOU THINGS? Wild. That's right, There's a new ON!LC in town, and this one's all about...
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Study Break Bonus: This Episode is a Miserable Little Pile of Secrets from 2019-09-05T09:00
From the Patreon-only vault: Megan, RJ, and Jared aka Best Day, huddle in Jared's closet around his terrible Snowball mic to discuss Japanese video games based on Tom Sawyer, Dracula, and the works...
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63: Treasure Island — A Tale of Two Daddies from 2019-08-22T09:00
Your favorite wildly unqualified hosts are back and have completely forgotten how to podcast! Join Megan and RJ as they once again venture onto the literary high seas with Treasure Island and learn...
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62: Capote, I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (w/ Kate Wallinga from Ignorance Was Bliss) from 2019-06-27T10:00
Screw books! We're a True Crime podcast now! Megan and RJ are joined by Kate, host of the podcast Ignorance Was Bliss to get all up in Truman Capote's genre-birthing"nonfiction"book, In Cold Blood....
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61: This Teen Angst Is Vintage from 2019-06-13T09:00
Another special request episode takes us back down that old YA road to Paul Zindel's novel, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball. Soak in that good good 1970s teenage disillusionment while RJ f...
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60: If She Breathes, She's a Thot: The Tragedy of Othello from 2019-05-30T09:00
We're back for more Big Willy, this time taking a look at Othello, the classic tale of tragedy, betrayal, and people flat-out refusing to JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER, MY GOD. We discover that Iago is n...
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59: The Remains of the Day — The Phantom Menace from 2019-05-16T09:00
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why we keep talking about Star Wars as we recount Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed classic, The Remains of the Day, the most frustratingly captivating novel about ...
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58: A Long Title About Little (Golden) Books from 2019-05-02T09:00
Take a trip to Little Golden Book Land as we take advantage of a mysterious delivery to revisit such greats as The Poky Little Puppy! Learn about LGB's humble beginnings, how Scuffy the Tugboat can...
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57: I Can Feel It Cummings in the Air Tonight from 2019-04-18T09:00
Oh Lord do we ever feel it coming as we dive back into the weird, wonderful, nearly constantly horny world of poetry with E.E. Cummings (and learn why we definitely wrote his name properly here). R...
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56: The Lion, the Bris and the Wardrobe (w/ The Narcissist Cookbook) from 2019-04-04T09:00
We step through CS Lewis's titular wardrobe into Narnia with Matt Johnston aka The Narcissist Cookbook to take a story of magical lands and good vs evil that's been dear to him since childhood and ...
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55: A Tale of Two Cities—and One Bane (w/ BJ Mendelson) from 2019-03-21T09:00
We're joined by author, comic writer, and Dickens-hating enthusiast BJ Mendelson as we read A Tale of Two Cities and learn that, while the revolution may not be televised, it WILL be knit into a sw...
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54: We Welcome Our Insect Overlords from 2019-03-07T10:00
The authors are only mostly dead in this special request episode that takes us to the sci-fi space futures of"Bloodchild"by Octavia Butler and"Sandkings"by George RR Martin. Learn the do's and don'...
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53: Huckleberry Finn and the Magic Power of Chest Hair (w/ MC Lars) from 2019-02-21T10:00
We're talking Mark Twain and super excited to be rolling down the Mississippi River with literary rhyme-master and self-professed Huck Finn fanboy MC Lars! Lars does his best to teach Megan and RJ ...
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52: Grendel's Mom Has Got It Goin'On (w/ Dr. Carla Maria Thomas) from 2019-02-07T10:00
We're celebrating TWO YEARS of unbridled book nonsense with an ON!LC first: getting someone who actually knows what the hell they're talking about to help us out. Dr. Carla Maria Thomas lends her O...
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51: Orpheus and Eurydice vs. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from 2019-01-24T10:00
Warm up those vocal cords and get ready to head to Hades because it's time to get mythological, baby! We're tackling the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a tale of lovers doomed by a failure to follow...
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50: Operation Death Sled (w/ Reid Messerschmidt From The Irrationally Exuberant Podcast) from 2019-01-10T10:00
Happy New Year! ON!LC is back in a big way as Reid Messerschmidt of The Irrationally Exuberant Podcast joins us to make the case for Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome, the story of the worst winter...
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Study Break Bonus: It Turns Out Words Don't Actually Mean Anything from 2018-12-31T10:00
What better way to get ready to ring in 2019 than with another bonus minisode from the ON!LC vault? Megan has a petty pet peeve over famous miscontextualized phrases from literature and people's ha...
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Study Break Bonus: I Literally Can't Even from 2018-12-25T10:00
Merry Christmas! Dive under the Christmas tree and unwrap this previously Patreon-exclusive minisode where guest Matt Hocker, surrealist comedian, and host of the appropriately-titled Matt Hocker S...
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49: Disney Rides are the Basis of All Historical Canon from 2018-12-13T10:00
In this final episode of 2018, all your burning questions will be answered, like what piece of classic literature needs to be made into a Muppet movie? Which Bronte sister could you beat in a fistf...
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48: A Midsummer Night's Wet Dream from 2018-11-29T10:00
Smash that emergency Shakespeare button for an appropriately semi-lucid episode on A Midsummer Night's Dream! Learn all about Shakespeare's famed comedy about horny idiots in the woods...that sat a...
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47: My Sister, My Sister, My Sister and Me from 2018-11-15T10:00
In this episode, we take a look at some positively lilliputian ladies in Louisa May Alcott's classic coming-of-age novel, Little Women. Learn why the Civil War is basically just the first Pokemon m...
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46: The Ballad of Count Jackula from 2018-10-31T09:00
What's that in your candy bucket? Is it a bonus week of spooks and scares just in time for Halloween?! Join us and learn why A Rose for Emily is less about The Bachelor and more about oblivious tow...
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45: Who Names Their Kid Ichabod Anyway? from 2018-10-25T09:00
Gird your gourds for more Halloween goodness as we begin our short story spookstravaganza! RJ discusses feminism and unfortunate interior decorating in The Yellow Wallpaper, and Megan explores the ...
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44: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Bill Nye the Science Guy from 2018-10-11T09:00
It's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year! Halloween! Obviously. In this spine-tingling episode, Megan and RJ take a trip down Queer Street to examine The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
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43: Surf's Up, Agatha! from 2018-09-27T09:00
Megan and RJ take Agatha Christie's sinister choo-choo train to her classic mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express. Along for the ride is Jess, English teacher and certified Christie-head. We ...
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42: Finding (and Escaping) Nemo from 2018-09-13T22:42
In this episode, we hold our breath to dive into the briny depths of Jules Verne’s adventure classic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Learn the downsides of owning your own island, the majesty of dif...
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41: The #Aesthetic of Dorian Gray from 2018-08-30T09:00
Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s a cursed, magical painting. Join Megan and RJ as they return to the wonderful world of Oscar Wilde to appraise The Picture of Dorian Gray and learn the surprisin...
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40: H. P. Lovecraft Part 2: A City of Steve Buscemis (w/ Best Day) from 2018-08-16T09:00
Join Megan, RJ, and Jared as we round out our journey through the Cthulhu-verse with The Shadow over Innsmouth, a tale of cursed villages, dark secrets, and mega-horny immortal fish people. Also di...
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39: H. P. Lovecraft Part 1: Jostled to Death by Sailors (w/ Best Day) from 2018-08-02T09:00
In this episode, Megan and RJ open up their feeble brain meats to the untold cosmic horrors of H. P. Lovecraft! With special guest and Old God aficionado, Jared aka Best Day, we heed the haunting, ...
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Study Break Bonus: The Goatesque and the Oceanesque from 2018-07-26T09:00
In this free teaser of Study Breaks to come, ON!LC guest alum Monique McIntosh returns to teach Megan about a popular, unsurprisingly racist term used in classic horror fiction. We also cover zombi...
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38: Hello from the Outside(rs) from 2018-07-19T09:00
We’re inside, we’re outside, we’re every which way but the general direction of S.E. Hinton’s Twitter as we tackle her classic teen coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders. Which isn’t gay. At all. What...
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37: Oops, We Bronte’d Again from 2018-07-05T09:00
Get ready for THE DRAMA as Megan and RJ journey to the ghostly moors of Wuthering Heights! Learn why everyone who thinks this is a romantic love story is both Wrong and Bad, why you should avoid gr...
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36: A Nice Book About Bunny Rabbits (w/ Chris Osborne From Play Comics) from 2018-06-21T09:00
What could go wrong in a book about bunnies? Plenty, if that book is Watership Down, a classic children’s novel that’s been traumatizing kids for nearly 50 years. Also traumatized is Chris Osborne ...
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35: 1-800-Flowers for Algernon from 2018-06-07T09:00
Oh Danny boy, the pipes are calling on this episode where we manage, despite our best efforts and potentially worst singing yet, to talk about the classic (sci-fi?) novel, Flowers for Algernon. Lea...
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34: Of Mice and Men and Salads from 2018-05-24T09:00
In an episode that could best be described as “Steinbeck adjacent,” we engage in some heavy petting, bacon thieving, obscure reference-making, and banana-insinuating. We also learn all about Burges...
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33: Mental Breakdowns in the Rye from 2018-05-10T09:12
Get ready to #CatchTheseHands in the rye as your two favorite phonies set out to eviscerate Holden Caulfield, but mostly just feel bad for him. Learn about the distinguished fields of kosher cheese...
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32: Part Man, Part Alcohol, Part Kangaroo: The Ernest Hemingway Story from 2018-04-26T09:00
In this special episode, we take you on an intoxicated tour through the life, times, and wives of Ernest Hemingway, with a brief stopover at The Old Man and the Sea. Join us at the hottest spot nor...
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31: Down and Dirty John Donne from 2018-04-12T09:00
RJ takes the wheel to teach us a thing about John Donne: Reverend, husband, and mega-horny poet. Enjoy the tonal whiplash as we rocket between poems about doing it, poems about how everyone he love...
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30: Bowels of Darkness from 2018-03-29T10:00
In this episode, we head to Africa, not to bless the rains but to contend with Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Megan is filled to the brim with salt while RJ tries to rack up a high score ...
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29: A Tough Tesseract to Follow from 2018-03-15T11:53
Crack open your guide to interdimensional travel because we’re about to Wrinkle some Time! Join us and our friend Scott for a magical story of quantum mechanics, pulsating brains, and incompetent d...
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28: Fightin’ and Philanderin’ With Daddy Dumas from 2018-03-01T10:30
Get ready for some nougat-y goodness with The Three Musketeers, a novel less about swashbuckling and more about extra-marital cross-kingdom hookups, horse-shaming, and that famous Musketeer slogan:...
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27: ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH! from 2018-02-15T10:00
British boys get stranded on a tropical island, and you won’t BELIEVE what happens next! …They get naked and try to murder each other. It’s Lord of the Flies, a book written out of spite for a diff...
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26: This Pie Tastes Like Murder from 2018-02-01T10:30
You guys, this show is a whole year old! In celebration, we bring you, from the depths of Shakespearean obscurity: Titus Andronicus, the play that asks “What if Shakespeare was possessed by Eli Rot...
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25: Scout Finch Is Going to Kick Your Butt from 2018-01-18T09:30
They say it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, so we get to sinning with Harper Lee’s immortal required reading classic. Learn how Lee plagiarized her own life, why Atticus Finch needs to sharpen his l...
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24.5: We A Some Qs from 2018-01-09T15:00
It’s a new year with new experiences to have and new challenges to face! Like having your schedule completely derailed by medical emergencies! (On an unrelated note, RJ met his unfortunate demise u...
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24: The Nightmare Before Christmas Carol from 2017-12-20T15:00
We’re celebrating the last episode of the year with the double-feature of A Christmas Carol and The Gift of the Magi! Embrace the holiday spirit of giving rocks to Baby Jesus, spending money you do...
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23: Ralph Ellison’s Big Book of Symbolism from 2017-12-07T15:00
Who wouldn’t want to be an Invisible Man? Playing awesome pranks, sneaking into R-rated movies…wait, this isn’t that one? This is the one about racial and social inequality and the failure of ident...
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22: 99 Problems but a Witch Ain’t One from 2017-11-23T15:00
We celebrate Thanksgiving by bringing America back to its awful roots with The Crucible, a play about the Salem witch hunts written during the communist witch hunts. Grab a turkey leg, accuse your ...
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21: Back to the (Bradbury) Future! from 2017-11-09T15:00
Come take a trip with us to the Bradbury-Future of Fahrenheit 451: where firemen burn books, buildings, robots, each other, whatever gets in the way of the flamethrower, really. Along the way, we’l...
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20: Pour One Out for Your Poe-mies from 2017-10-26T15:00
Our Halloween celebration continues with the master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe! Cower in fear at the return of the curséd city of Boston! Tremble in horror at how out of touch we are with po...
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19: Don’t Kinkshame Dracula from 2017-10-12T15:00
Is there a more recognizable literary monster than Dracula? Maybe, but who cares, IT’S A HALLOWEEN EPISODE! Join us as we learn why wolves make great lockpicks, create a Halloween “Dream Daddy” DLC...
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18: The Gay Penguin Agenda – Banned Books Week ’17 from 2017-09-28T15:00
In an episode meant to explain and explore the world of banned and challenged books, Megan and RJ instead fail to resist drugs and violence, rewrite Lolita by way of Free Willy, are attacked by bug...
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17: The Big Willy Conspiracy from 2017-09-14T15:00
In this special episode, we’re investigating a centuries-spanning, Da Vinci Code-style conspiracy: Did beloved wordsmith William Shakespeare actually write all those plays? Or was it…someone else?!...
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16: Adjust Your Expectations Accordingly from 2017-08-31T15:00
In this positively Dickensian episode, Megan and RJ attempt to discuss Great Expectations and its young hero Pip, but get sidetracked by everything from Chuck E. Cheese to forgetting the lyrics to ...
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15: I Love You, Most Awkwardly. from 2017-08-17T15:00
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of a Jane Austen novel, must be in want of a guest host. Fellow Literary Post-Grad Monique joins Megan and RJ for a timel...
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14: Their Eyes Were Watching God Drop the Bass from 2017-08-03T15:00
In this episode, we cover Zora Neale Hurston’s novel about race, gender, and feminine agency in the horrible, horrible swamps of Florida. Learn where Hurston is *probably* buried, Floridian Hurrica...
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13: Hamlet! REVEEEENGE! from 2017-07-20T15:00
Big Willy Shakespeare returns! We learn about Amleth, the original Norse myth that’s better in every way, just how bad the “Bad Quarto” version of the play is, and why when your ghost dad tells you...
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12: Giant Bugs, John Leguizamo,&the Jewish People from 2017-07-06T15:00
Bodies change. One day you've got a slim waist with a beautiful head of hair and the next you’re a writhing, oozing insect monster. In this episode, we close our eyes and swat a newspaper at Franz ...
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11: Go Make Your Blue China Proud from 2017-06-22T15:00
In the nick of time for Pride Month, we baseball slide in with Oscar Wilde, and our first guest host: our friend and fellow Literature Masochist, Scott. In The Importance of Being Earnest, enjoy wa...
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10: On the Hunt for the Great White Dick from 2017-06-08T15:00
Weigh anchor and climb aboard the good ship Oh No! Lit Class for an extra-special extra…whale…y episode! Moby Dick takes us through such troubled waters as unfortunate child-naming trends, the homo...
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9: With Apologies to Margaret Atwood from 2017-05-25T15:00
In this episode, we abandon our integrity, dignity, and tagline so that we can jump on The Handmaid’s Tale bandwagon…and then mention the TV show maybe once. Instead, we learn why RJ shouldn’t be a...
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8: There Will Be Yams from 2017-05-11T15:00
You know what they say, “You gotta plant the yams first. Then, when you have the yams, you have the power.” We’re pretty sure that’s how that one goes. Dive into Things Fall Apart as RJ makes far t...
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7: It’s Alive! It’s a Lie? from 2017-04-27T15:00
Megan and RJ are here to tell you that everything you know about Frankenstein is wrong. Not only is he the doctor and not the monster, he’s not even an actual doctor! Also, there’s no Igor…but ther...
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6: Something’s Sinful in Salem from 2017-04-13T15:00
You know how it is, your husband says he’s gonna meet you in the New World, he doesn’t show up, you sleep with a priest, the town shuns you because you’re full of sin, Batman’s there…Megan and RJ r...
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5: Sex in the Totalitarian Dystopia from 2017-03-30T15:00
In this episode, Megan and RJ talk about 1984, George Orwell’s bleak image of a dark future where one man really, really, REALLY wants to get his bone on. We ignore most of the probing philosophica...
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4: Emily Dickinson: Harbinger of Death from 2017-03-16T15:00
Poet, recluse…murderer? Probably not that last thing but wow did everyone Emily Dickinson ever love sure die a whole bunch. Megan and RJ take the Dickinson train to Sadness Town, realize how little...
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3: Isn’t It Byronic? Don’t You Think? from 2017-03-02T15:00
It’s like raaaa-eee-aaaiiin on your wedding day! …Or like finding out your fiancé is already married and has been keeping his wife locked in the attic of his house, on your wedding day. It’s time f...
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2: Ain’t No Party Like A West Egg Party from 2017-02-16T15:00
In this episode, we’re talking about The Great Gatsby! We’ll explore the cultural context of the Jazz Age, how writing a novel can be the sickest burn of all, and why it’s so hard to think of a mem...
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1: Ey Yo, Macbeth! from 2017-02-01T15:00
In this first episode, we learn about Shakespeare’s Macbeth: the crazy, bloodthirsty murderer, and Historical Macbeth: the pretty okay dude. Megan gets history-shamed, RJ is under the impression th...
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