PODCAST · arts
Lit is Lit
by Luis Manuel Diores
One Literature teacher and a bunch of crazy-smart (and sometimes just crazy) high school students talking about books (ranging from Shakespeare to Stan Lee).
Episodes
-
🦚FIRST IMPRESSIONS
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that an online class with the Grade 9 students is going to be an awesome one." Our first-ever Austen-inspired episode!
-
⚔️SOLDIER SESSION
The first Grammar episode of the season! Cover art by Willian Balbuena
-
🫵FIND-THE-LARPER 451
The Grade X try to find the Fahrenheit 451 larper in the 8th episode of our 8th season!
-
🤎NICE MAN ENJOYERS
"Even in a town poisoned by shadow, to love justice is to sing like a mockingbird." - The Ardent
-
🔱IRON OLYMPIANS
Racing to get this up by midnight! The Top 9 Moments of Generation 9's Olympian battles! Listen until the end to find out who wins the Space Stone this year!
-
🗺️LE UNITED & UNEMPLOYED
G9 Pilgrim Poets 2026: the Daydreamer, the Elated, the Ardent, the Night Rider, the 2-Sided Jack, the Fraud, Le Executioner, Le Sentinel, Le Trailblazer, Le Memory Traveler, the Aristocrat, the Scribe, the Column, the Troubajester, the Evasive, the Exiled, and the missing X
-
🎣A FAREWELL TO POETRY
The Fisherz' final poetry podcast episode
-
4️⃣4 FANTASTIC BATTLES4️⃣
The student heroes have Fun with their Fantastic quirks in Four First-time QA battles!
-
☮️THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF DIPLOMACY
Our season 8 version of the Beowulf episode! The Grade 9 this year have extra big brains!
-
🎲CLASS 10, GEN 9
Podcast listeners, meet the Generation 9 student heroes! Generation 9 students, meet your quirks!
-
🐸EMPLOYED @ WATSONS
The Grade 10 Grammar students critique a CEO, a president, and the brightest witch of her age.
-
🦆TUNG TUNG TUNG GRAMMAR
9 lessons learned in G9 Grammar (S.Y. 2025-2026)
-
💜ALTERNATE ENDING💙
Death Debate 2025. Will the Kerouac streak continue? Or will Rich Kid, Manly Man, Sad Girl, or Holden Caulfield change the ending?
-
🧡INFINITY WARS💛
The one where Teacher Ing is too tired to try to think of a cool episode description! Just listen to it! One of the best batch of alumni battles ever!
-
🧑🤝🧑THE 2 WILLIAMS
The podcast's 5th Lord of the Flies episode where we discuss William Golding, William Blake, and the nature & origin of Evil. Marco also falls off a chair in this one!
-
🐯THE BIG BOLLYWOOD EPISODE
The Grade 8's second podcast episode...and it's a chaotic one about Contemporary Indian Literature!
-
💙PALADIN'S PULSE
Where our paladin dies young 😭 and the world will never know which of the 4 poems we loved the most 💔. It's all a little too perfect and poetic for the episode of the season with the most yearning!
-
🎸THIS POEM PISSED US OFF!
Where Joshua gets stung but it was worth it!
-
🫣CASE 12012
Where we use poetry to solve a murder.
-
👁️SCOUTS & SORCERERS
Where we discuss whether we should be brave or careful and how heartbreak makes us realize just how precious our hearts are.
-
🎄HAVE YOURSELF A CREEPY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Our first-ever Christmas-themed episode! We turn horror poems into holiday stories featuring: Santa, the Grinch, Jack Frost, and Mariah Carey.
-
🐉REALITY VS. FANTASY
For the first time ever, this yearly Book Day debate has been recorded! To make it even more special, this is the first time any Grade 8 class has contributed to the Lit is Lit podcast! It's also the first episode where we try out our new official podcast microphone!
-
🍝SPAGHETTI SCREENTIME
Did anyone order a Readathon debate?
-
👁️THE ANTI-MILDRED CLUB
I don't know what's stronger: the G10's love for Fahrenheit 451 or their hatred for Mildred!
-
🌭WIENERS, LOSERS, & MOCKINGBIRDS
The G9 and their poetic personas academically analyze Harper Lee's beloved classic!
-
🌊THE MAN IN THE WATER
Join the Grade X and their Grammar teacher go overtime analyzing their assigned article!
-
🕸️P.S. POWER STONE
Generation Infinity's turn to time travel, save Spidey, and go Plus Ultra for the Power Stone!
-
💯EPISODE 100
Episode 7 of Season 7. The 100th one when 30 Lit students, 22 alumni, and 1 very blessed Lit teacher celebrated this podcast. Episode cover/thumbnail art by Abisha Mohan Cangsuco, Grade X!
-
✊UHM...OLYMPIANS!
Sorry for all the uhms! It was midnight and Teacher Ing was melting!
-
🦈OLYMPIANS OF POETRY
The Grade X's poetic personas try pushing each other off Mount Olympus!
-
☎️CHAUCEREAN CHAOS
Introducing: The Echo, the Diva, the Gambler, the Motivator, the Phone Call, the Destroyer, the Investor, the Concert Master, the Connecter, the Innovator, the Painted Fool, the Wacky, the Extremist, the Jester, and the Adventurer
-
🎧MUSIC CLASS MISSILE-WE'RE LIVE!
Music classes get cancelled so we spend the hour live checking Generation Infinity's first ever QA!
-
👹THE GLORY OF GRADE 9
Beowulf and the Banished Wife enter into battle! But are they allies or enemies?
-
♾️GENERATION INFINITY
Good-bye, Generation 7! Welcome, Generation 8!
-
⏰END OF BEGINNING
9 Tips to Achieve Grammar Status with the Grade 9
-
🥹GOOD-BYE G10
The last podcast episode with our graduates 🥹 And of course Sophie is being controversial again.
-
❄️THE ALUMNI EXAM 2025
TRUST ME! Listen to the entire thing, ESPECIALLY THE CLOSER❄️TIME STAMPS❄️00:00-02:34: Intro❄️02:35-08:27: Battle 1-Neptunus❄️08:28-15:45: Battle 2-Allure❄️15:46-42:32 and then 01:12:16-01:18:26: Battle 3-Siopilos❄️42:33-49:53: Battle 4-Wishweaver❄️49:54-01:00:25: Battle…
more -
🐗POEMS 4 PIGGIES
The 4th edition of the "Lord of the Flies" podcast episode
-
🥊SNIPS & SNAILS & PUPPY DOG TAILS
Another Grade 10 Grammar episode where they not-so-silently judge 3 alumni boys and their term paper abstracts
-
ETERNAL🌤️SUNSHINE
I don't think Alexander Pope ever expected to be discussed with Ariana Grande in the background 🌤️Henley's "Invictus"🌤️Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard"🌤️Lovelace's "To Lucasta"
-
HACK🐝HIVE
We were hacked! 🐝Markham's "The Man with the Hoe"🐝Lodge's "Rosalind's Madrigal"🐝Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"
-
O CAPTAIN!🚢MY CAPTAIN!
The Grade 9 are starting to get poetry! They aren't standing up on desks yet...but they're getting there!🚢Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"🚢Keats' "Bright Star"🚢Wordsworth's "She Was a Phantom of Delight"
-
MEMORY🕯️KEEPERS
Dedicated to Prince Albert 🕯️Tennyson's "In Memoriam"🕯️Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"🕯️Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose"
-
HEART💔BROKEN
The first poetry podcast episode of 2025 💔Housman's "When I Was One-and-Twenty"💔Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43💔Blake's "The Tiger"
-
🍇LISA'S STUDY GUIDES
Teacher Amanda 💁♀️ and the Grade 10 students 💅with another podcast episode, this time testing for Biases and Blinks.
-
☕eValuating espresso editorials
evaluating editorials with teacher emanda ✌️
-
🤘NO TITLE
The student heroes multitask and channel their inner Shreks and Spider-Men! Who impressed the most and won the Power Stone this year? Listen to find out!
-
📖BOOK 11
Prompted and inspired by the eleventh required book in their high school Lit journey, the Grade 10 go through our past 10 books and decide which ones to save and which ones to burn! Fun Fact: Unplanned, it just so happened that this ended up being our eleventh episode of the season.
-
⚖️A MAYOR FOR MAYCOMB
Who among the Grade 9's poetic personas will do the most good as new mayor over Maycomb? Featuring: the Adventurer, the Wanderer, the Speaker, the Brainstormer, the Runner, the Intimate, the Adapter, the Loverboy, the Fantasizer, the Daydreamer, the Listener, the Brave Pilot, the Emily, the...
-
🐧FOR FRANKLIN
The Grade 10 students impress Teacher Amanda in her first podcast episode of the season!
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Lit is Lit have?
Lit is Lit currently has 50 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Lit is Lit about?
One Literature teacher and a bunch of crazy-smart (and sometimes just crazy) high school students talking about books (ranging from Shakespeare to Stan Lee).
How often does Lit is Lit release new episodes?
Lit is Lit has 50 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Lit is Lit?
You can listen to Lit is Lit on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Lit is Lit?
Lit is Lit is created and hosted by Luis Manuel Diores.
URL copied to clipboard!