Chatting about the Classics

For this episode I've assembled a crack team of book nerds to discuss 'the classics.: Megan (@feminist.fiction), Noah (@everyone_who_reads_), Seth (@wastemailinglist) and Matty (@theobliterature). We debate what constitutes a classic, which ones we love and loathe, and if we need to expand our notion of the term.

Books mentioned in this episode:
America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic by Phillip Freedenberg, illustrated by Jeff Walton
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Western Stories by Joe Carducci
Wyoming Stories by Joe Carducci
Stone Male: Requiem for the Living Picture by Joe Carducci
Everyman by Philip Roth
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Beowulf
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Tess of the d’Ubervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Othello by William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Candide, ou l’Optimisme by Voltaire
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Poetics by Aristotle
The Republic by Plato
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Any Day You Can Die by Thommy Waite

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