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Fire the Canon — 169 episodes
The Life and Times of Jack Gilbert: Have a Something Day
For Esmé -- with Love and Squalor (Patreon Bonus)
What Happened?!
Vacation Horror Stories with J.D. Salinger: A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Goosebumps 5: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Patreon Bonus)
The Life and Times of J.D. Salinger: One Testicle Too Many
Frankenstein Finale: We're ALIIIIIIIVVEEE!!
Frankenstein Part 2: The Demon of Bulimia, the Gift of Murder
Frankenstein Part 1: It's Always Bad to be a Deadbeat Dad
Corn Daddy (Patreon Bonus)
The Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Great Pizza, Shady Folks
The Cask of Amontillado: You Should've Never Called Me a Fat-Ass Kelly Price
The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (Part 2): A Human Man and His Human Wife
The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (Part 1): The First American Writer to Refuse to Have Another Job
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Finale: Another Clam of Wisdom from the Chowder of Knowledge
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Begins: Flavor-Blasting a Little Pilgrim Boy
Ranking Every Trope, with Jess Owens (Patreon Bonus)
Mrs. Dalloway Ends: I Don't Care What Some Brooklynite Says About Love and God and Vomit
Mrs. Dalloway Begins: Let’s All Crack a Cold One On the Road, Together
The Life and Times of Virginia Woolf: I Love How Women Are Like A Mommy
A Fun Chat About Racism (Patreon Bonus)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Finale: Give Me a Squirrel, Daddy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 1: They're Killing Me, These Buckets!
Chatting with Ada Palmer about Machiavelli, a Sweetheart Who Did Good Things
The Reading Corner 1 (Patreon Bonus)
Machiavelli's The Prince: Or, How to Not Get Invited on Walks Anymore
The Life and Times of Roald Dahl: Spy, Children's Book Writer, and EXTREMELY Complicated Dude
Fakespeare Returns: Thomas North's Revenge
Moby Dick Finale: Fate's Lieutenant (and Its B*tch)
1-Star Reviews: Pride and Prejudice (Patreon Preview)
Charles Dickens' The Battle of Life: Christmas Out the Wazoo
A Christerious Re-Release: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Moby Dick 4: Racist or Nautical?
Stephen's Sleep Talking Part 3 (Patreon Preview)
Moby Dick Part 3: The Town Ho's Story
Moby Dick Part 2: You Can't Be a Bad Guy if You're a Wife
Moby Dick Part 1: Be Happy About the Ocean
1-Star Reviews: The Fellowship of the Ring (Patreon Preview)
The Life and Times of Herman Melville: A Weeb for Polynesia
The Poetry of Sappho: Lil' Dicky from Man-Land
Theo Battles the Booger Monster (Patreon Preview)
The Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep: Advice from the Oldest Book in the World (or, 110 Years to Prove the Pharaoh is Awesome)
Talking to Author Frances Hardinge About Worldbuilding, Spooky Houses, and Mind-Control Perfume
Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2: Poo-Tee-Weet?
Goosebumps 4: Say Cheese and Die (Patreon Preview)
Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1: Billy Pilgrim Has Come Unstuck in Time.
The Life and Times of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: You Gotta Ban the Books!
She's the Man: Amanda Bynes' Shakespearean Masterpiece (Patreon preview)
Monstrilio: A Conversation with Debut Author Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Finale: The Brotherhood of the Traveling Brain Cell
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Part 1: Lies. All Lies.
Pinocchio Part 2: Not a Puppet, Not Yet a Boy
Talkin' Cricket Blues (Patreon Preview)
Pinocchio Part 1: Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves! (With Some Help From Jacob)
Bye, Thelicia (Sort Of)
Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth Part 2: Here Comes the Killing!
Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth Part 1: I Guess You Learned a Lesson
The Moomins: Muumibuumi!!!
Bump Patrol: Monster Blood (Patreon Preview)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Part 3: Inside the Brain of a Child Vampire
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Part 2: Draculala Land
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Part 1: Fling with a Skeeze
Talking to M. Grant Kellermeyer About "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Rip Van Winkle (Patreon Preview)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Poppin’ a Wheelie on a Horse
The Life and Times of Washington Irving: One Hundred Years of Crayon
Talking Transformative Works with Author Nghi Vo: Call Me Fish Mail
The Great Gatsby Finale: Enter the Multiverse; Any Timeline Works - Anyone Could Be His Child
Fakespeare (Patreon Preview)
The Great Gatsby, Part 1: Restaurant Workers Can’t Be Aliens
The Life and Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald (The F is for Finisher)
Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Finale: Yumeow Yumeow Yumeow
Theo Quizzes the Hosts (Patreon Preview)
Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Part 1: The Hulk of Messing Things Up (a.k.a. The Transformation or Die Verwandlung)
The Life and Times of Franz Kafka: Fighting God
Talking to Author Sarah Gailey About Horror, Compulsory Girl Bossing, and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
How to Scam the French Lottery for Fun and Profit, by Voltaire (Patreon Preview)
A (Near) Father’s Day Fiasco!
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias: Talking Poetry with Professor Ross White
The Life and Times of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Life’s a Bysshe and Then You Die in a Mysterious Boating Accident
Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism Finale: Impossible Feets
Theo's Birthday Episode (Patreon Preview)
Premee Mohamed on Writing Sci-Fi Like a Scientist
Mother’s Day Mayhem!
The Poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Feminist, Lesbian, Spitfire, 17th-Century Mexican Nun
Goosebumps 2: Stay Out of the Basement (Patreon Preview)
Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism Part 1: A Young Teenage Boy-Man-ish
The Life and Times of Voltaire: The Pete Davidson of the Enlightenment
Yoon Ha Lee on Space Operas and Surviving as a Writer
Dubliners Finale: The Michael-Killer
James Joyce’s Dubliners, Part 1: Two O’Goofuses
Optimism vs. Hope: How to Build a Better Future, with Historian Ada Palmer
Winnie-the-Pooh Finale: A Pig of No Simple Fortune
Winnie-the-Pooh Begins: Screwing Up Every Day
Romeo & Juliet & Everything Else: A Conversation with Historian Ada Palmer
Valentine’s Day Special: Browning Battle! DTM - Down to Marry
Romeo and Juliet, But Make it Funny
Cyrano de Bergerac Finale: A Down South Baptizin’
Cyrano de Bergerac Part 1: The Monkey of Brioche
1984 Finale: The McDoubleThink is Back
1984 Part 2: 10 Years of Punching Experience
Hot Take #1 - Michael and the Horrifying Ordeal of Being Perceived
1984 Part 1: The Stupidest Thing Everyone Has Ever Tweeted
Dickens’ The Chimes: Gob Bless Us, Every One
A Christery Chat with John Allison
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas: If You See Something, Slit Something
Cicero’s How to Be a Friend: Brainless Geniuses
Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: They’re All Pippin
Lysistrata: A Newer, More Glamorous, Supremely Seductive Me
The Little Prince Finale: Mr. Pig Expert
Dune (2021) vs. Dune (1984) with Jess Owens: A Cat with a Rat Taped to It
The Little Prince Part 1: We Like Sheep!
Halloween Bonus! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: 90 Kids in a Trenchcoat
Frank Herbert’s Dune, ft. Jack Morgan: Little Miss Livermush
The 10 Strangest Births in Greek Mythology(?): Zaddy, Zexy, Zeus
Dune: Our Friends the Worms
Lovecraft’s The Whisperer in Darkness: A Conversation with Author Ruthanna Emrys
Dostoevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man: Electronic Jaculas
Wuthering Heights Finale: Enough Mush for Two
Wuthering Heights 2: Minchin’ and Munchin’
Wuthering Heights 1: A Strange Choice of Favourites
Frauds, Plagues, and Terrible Art: a (Mostly) Medieval Chat with Dr. Lotte Reinbold
Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House
Goodnight Moon: In the French Style
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Finale: Even When You’re Right, It Seems So, So Wrong
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Part 2: The Cheeky Numbles
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Part 1: Spider Town
A Delightful Chat with BookTuber Jess Owens
A Confederacy of Dunces Finale: A Live Action Shot-For-Shot Remake of The Prince of Egypt
A Confederacy of Dunces Part 2: Back to Hell, Ron Weasley!
BONUS: America the Beautiful: July the 4th Be with You
A Confederacy of Dunces Part 1: Speaking of Tools
Bartleby the Scrivener: Love Home Alone 2
BONUS: This One’s for the Dads: Talkin’ Songs with Big Yellow Praxis
The Wonderful Wizards of Pod Finale: Brother Wizard in the Sky
The Wonderful Wizards of Pod Part 2: Dorothy and the Meat Dog
The Wonderful Wizards of Pod Part 1: America’s Favorite Color
The Crucible Finale: Call Me Father, Because I’m Dad
The Crucible Part 3: The Wurst Witch
The Most Dangerous Game: Death of a Sailsman (with Bekah Best)
The Crucible Part 2: J’accuse!
The Crucible Begins: The Sweet, Sweet Siren Call of Communism
Story of the Stone with Jeannette Ng: Heavenly Bureaucracy
A Puddle-Wonderful Springtime Poetry Extravaganza
Parable of the Sower Finale: Still Not Pregnant, Lovin’ It
Igckens Teaser
Parable of the Sower Part 1: Bebopazaballz
A Conversation with Author Lindsey Kelk
Musical Interlude: (Oh Babe) You Disarm Me
Pride & Prejudice Finale: Bing Bong’s at It Again
Pride & Prejudice 4: Sneaky & Silent (& Looming)
Pride & Prejudice 3: That’s Podcast Humor, Baby
Pride & Prejudice 2: Shrubberies & Snubberies
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Great Poem. Good.
Pride & Prejudice 1: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Darcy
Catcher in the Rye Finale: Some Kind of Epiphany, Somehow
Catcher in the Rye Part 1: A Prize for Little G
Beowulf Bonus: Chatting with Dr. Brad Robinson
Beowulf Finale: A Good Guy, a Good King
Beowulf Part 1: For Bros, By Bros, About Bros
Podyssey Finale: Playtime is Over
A Christmas Carol Part 2: That Peculiar Christmas Flavor
A Christmas Carol Part 1: Mankind is Our Business
Musical Interlude: (That'd Be A) Happy Holiday
Podyssey Part 4: Theo’s Revenge
Podyssey Part 3: Elpenor 2024
Podyssey Part 2: Polyphemus and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Podyssey Part 1: The Telemacheia
Introducing Fire The Canon