Uncited: An English Lit Podcast

We're saying goodbye in the only way we can. Thanks for the memories, everyone. It's been a blast.

Amy is bringing us a book review of The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney! This one has the honour of being THE LAST BOOK WE TALK ABOUT ON THE SHOW OH MY GOSH.

We are finally wrapping up our discussion of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series with Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour! Join us and Ben from Words About Books.

Amy is joined by Sam who tries, and succeeds, to convince her to watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, by introducing her to Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R. R. Martin.

We're talking about Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith! Oh, they've got JOKES today. (Victorian jokes (actually funny ones (no, seriously.)))

We're talking about Stuart McLean, whom Amy says is an integral part of English Canadian culture but whom Chantelle first heard of from Amy, just now! Featuring holiday stories and Dave Cooks the Turkey from The Vinyl Cafe.

Remember when Frankenstein's creature read Ozymandias? Yeah, us too. We're talking about Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley! (And........Horace Smith?)

We're going wayyyy back to our roots, revisiting Frankenstein from our very first episode. But this time we're mixing it up a little (the format, not the body parts). It's the 2025 Guillermo del Toro movie!

It's HAPPENING!!! We are FINISHING The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling by Henry Fielding! Get ready for the plot twist to end all plot twists, in the novel to change all novels.

We're STILL talking about Henry Fielding's book, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling! We learn that Tom is a bit of a [long-handled gardening tool that can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker]. And he's been kissing Sophia's WHAT now?

We're back at it again with The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, Books 3-7! Tom is accidentally the luckiest person in the world.

We're talking about Amy's favourite book, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding! Infants are abandoned! Women get called terrible names for getting pregnant out of wedlock! It's 800 pages!

We're talking about The Ballad of Mulan from 5th-6th century China! We talk gender, war, class, and how literature course options should be better!

It's songs as poems part two! Can you guess the song? Will Amy think all of them are by Taylor Swift or Relient K? Find out!

Yes! It's the funny literature break we've been promising! We're talking about comedy poetry legend Ogden Nash, wordplay, and perhaps a new way to look at all of society as a whole?

We're finishing Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy with the final book, The Ghost Road! Be sure to follow along with this week's discussion questions:What?Why?Huh?

We're continuing the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker with Book 2: The Eye in the Door! This one is suddenly a lot bleaker than the last one, uh oh! Luckily, there's lots of smashin' to make up for it.

It's trilogy time! We're talking about Regeneration, Book 1 of the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker. Featuring familiar faces from World War 1 literature, a hospital magazine, and canon queer readings. Content warnings: War, death, corpses, mutilation, dismembered body parts, PTSD, dead animals, attempted suicide, conversion therapy.

You ever remember a book one way, and then you re-read it and it's... not that? Yeah, that was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. CONTENT WARNINGS: Sexual assualt, abuse of authority, physical assault, racism, light homophobia, animal suffering, animal death, abortion. Yeah, sorry y'all.

We're back talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Volume 5 in the series)! Featuring linguistics, comic book-specific literary techniques, and porch light sensors.

Amy, Chantelle, and Mr. E. Sangria are reading Am I The A**hole Stories from Read-it, the version of Reddit for fictional characters only! Are these guys in the wrong? And what stories are they from, anyway?

The long-awaited second part of our children's lit episode, four years after the original! Thank you to everyone who submitted audience recommendations for picture books many, many moons ago. And we are joined by a Very Special Guest who has Lots Of Experience reading to children!

We're talking about The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel! This Canadian book by an Uncited alumnus author delves into murder accusations, investment fraud, and GHOSTS.

We're talking about Billy Bishop Goes to War, a musical by Eric Peterson and John MacLachlan Gray! Have you ever wanted to talk about World War I but make it fun and quirky and then make it very very sad? Fly on over.

We're welcoming back our good friend Az (calscalzones on Bluesky) to talk about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Volume 4 of the Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! We're talking allll the L words.

We're reviewing one of Chantelle's top five favourite books ever, Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver! It's a queer YA fantasy that looks at: What if astrology was a main component of culture? How do we define our role in society? What if a lizard was real big?

It's another epistolary novel, which means we're once again joined by special guest Jamie Anderson (jamienerdgirl on Bluesky) to talk about The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood! It's... oof.

We're talking about Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan! About taking a nice trip through the Polish countryside because of a music festival and—oh wait—no, it's about the Holocaust. Content warning for genocide, racism, and violence.

This week we're talking about Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child! Featuring Japanese folklore, Little House on the Prairie, a mysterious pregnancy, and so many cucumbers. Keep listening for more Canadian lit coming your way.

We're talking about Delicious in Dungeons, Volume 2 by Ryoko Kui! The gang is back at it again with giant chia pets, kelpie friends, and non-edible paintings.

We're talking about The Princess Bride again! We wrap up the main story then cover some hot takes from our lovely listeners. Buttercup's Baby coming soon (we swear).

We're talking about Chantelle's favourite book, The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern by William Goldman! If you've seen the movie, buckle up because it's entirely the same yet completely different.

It's our last episode of the year and we're talking about Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen! How much does it have in common with Disney's Frozen? And how much does it have in common with The Secret, that 2006 manifestation book?

Today we're reading THAT story. The story that pops up when you give ChatGPT the prompt "Tell me a story". Can it do it? (Spoiler: No, it can't.)

This week we're talking about Daniel Perry's Modern Folklore, a book about the things that haunt us: our regrets, our vices, the mysterious figure of a woman with long dark hair, rental units.

This week, we talk about In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, along with other World War I poems in honour of Remembrance Day.

This week Amy is sharing A Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy, her new book recommendation with a signed copy and a lending copy. This story on trans witchcraft talks about earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention, and we talk about cool witch s***.

This week we're welcoming back Jamie Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to talk about Stephen King's 11/22/63! Much like the book, we talk about the Kennedy assassination, sure. But mostly other things.

This week we're talking about Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui! In which walking mushrooms, screaming roots, and carnivorous plants are on the menu (along with friendship!)

We're talking about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun! This was a standout book and a hearty recommendation, but boy is it rough. Content warnings for genocide, violence, sexual assault, and murder of a pregnant woman.

We're back in the Scott Pilgrim series with Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness! Plus, we're having something of an infinite sadness ourselves. But in a fun, chill way, you know?

We're back with a group storytelling game! And it gets wild. Check out Glen and Gertie Nuzzles from Nuzzle House and Ben and Nate from Words About Books!

This week in honour of our 100th episode, we're playing a game with some of our podcast friends! Check out Jamie @UnabashedJames, Colin @ColinMParker, and Az @Cals_Calzones on Twitter!

This week we're talking about William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, stage productions and adaptations, and Bard on the Beach in Vancouver! What does Willy do when he's scared? Willy Shakes.

This week we're finishing up The Tortured Poets Department section from Taylor Swift's Eras tour set. Songs covered are Down Bad, Fortnight, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.

Is Chantelle... a Swiftie? In honour of the 18th birthday of Taylor Swift's music career, we're talking about songs from The Tortured Poets Department section of the Eras tour set: But Daddy I Love Him, So High School, and Who's Afraid of Little Old Me.

This week we're talking about Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her lifelong gal pal Susan Gilbert. References are mostly from Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert by Maria Popova. Happy Pride! P.S. The world's oldest queer book store, Glad Day, needs help keeping its doors open as one of the city's core safe spaces! Can you help save Glad Day Bookshop? https://www.gladday.ca/savegladday

In honour of the release of Bridgerton Season 3, we're tackling the first book in Julia Quinn's series, The Duke and I! We chat about daddy issues, "The Talk", and swimming in the River Thames. Content warning for sexual assault.

We're finally talking about Beowulf, the epic poem written for 300 years that could have ended about four times! Incoming intertextuality (?) with Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, The Fast and the Furious, James Bond, and Disney.

This week we're talking about Volume 2 of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! Scott finally makes the right choice, outsmarts Chris Evans on a skateboard, and has a breakdown about his ex.