Megan and RJ are back (again)! And they swear it’s really them and not a couple of criminal deviant androids. For real, they pinky-promise and everything. Join us for Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and discover …
Tag: postmodernism rears its ugly head
84: Let’s Get Lit(erary Theory)
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 critics with bodily harm, shrug as RJ …
77: So It Kurt Vonnegoes
There’s no getting around it, this episode on Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, is big. A big, meaty episode all about time, space, war, trauma, and also, for absolutely no reason at all, French philosopher Michel Foucault’s weird bald head. …
71: The Way The World Ends (Not With a Bang But a Meow)
Megan and RJ are prancing and dancing their way into 2020 like a regular pair of Jellicle cats as they take on TS Eliot and his wildly disparate body of work, including poems of fragmented existential Modernist despair and also …
64: Not Another British War Drama
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 girl’s lies can …
63:Treasure Island – A Tale of Two Daddies
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, where we learn that the real treasure is the …
62: Capote, I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore
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. Together we’ll objectify nuns, workshop …
Study Break Bonus: I Literally Can’t Even
Merry Christmas! Dive under the Christmas tree (that’s how that works, right?) and unwrap this previously Patreon-exclusive minisode where guest Matt Hocker, surrealist comedian, Strange Human, and host of the appropriately-titled Matt Hocker Show, drops in to provide some startlingly …
49: Disney Rides are the Basis of All Historical Canon
In this massive 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 fistfight? Was Helen Keller …
26: This Pie Tastes Like Murder
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 Roth and then wrote a play?” and …