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Unfortunately Required Reading — 136 episodes

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1

Antisemitic Fan Fiction (Ivanhoe)

2

Unfortunate Fan Fiction (Boy in the Striped Pajamas)

3

Don't Make Fun of a God's Mom (The Bacchae)

4

Keep Your Friends Close, Vampires Closer (The Vampyre by John Polidori)

5

Another Book That Was Clearly a Cry for Help (Dicey's Song)

6

Episode 124: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Italy (The Aeneid)

7

The Book Club

8

Episode 123: Not a Single Woman of Color Was Involved or Asked (The Second Sex)

9

Isn't this An Episode of Family Guy (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

10

Tocqueville's American Travel Vlog (Democracy in America)

11

That's Showbiz Kid (A Confederacy of Dunces)

12

Inconceivable! Anybody want a Peanut? (The Princess Bride)

13

The Haunted Audio (Turn of the Screw)

14

Diet Malthus (Ishmael)

15

This is My Roman Empire (I, Claudius)

16

Episode 115: Word by Word (Bird by Bird)

17

City of Naw (City of Night)

18

Following the White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)

19

Little Scam on the Prairie (Little House on the Prairie)

20

Basically, Just Real Life in Late Stage Capitalism (Fahrenheit 451)

21

Episode 110: I Bet on Losing Dogs (Lady Chatterley's Lover)

22

Strong Independent Pilgrim (Little Women)

23

A Bug's Life (Metamorphosis)

24

This Time, We Want to Join a Cult (or Build a Submarine)

25

Do You Want to Get Sued? (The Shining)

26

A Whole New World (Brave New World)

27

Episode 104: Paper Folding Peace Signs (Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes)

28

Look Down (Les Miserables)

29

Is the Movie Better? (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

30

Animal Harm (Animal Farm)

31

F*** You, Mark Twain

32

I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)

33

Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)

34

The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)

35

A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas)

36

The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden)

37

A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

38

Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)

39

Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid)

40

Do Androids Dream of Dick? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

41

So You're Saying I Can Dodge? (Neuromancer)

42

Trauma All the Way Down (The Haunting of Hill House)

43

Episode 88: It Was a Monkey? (Murders in the Rue Morgue)

44

These are the MF Jokes (Oedipus Rex)

45

Sexting in the Time of Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera)

46

Encanto with Incest (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

47

Sartre Diem (No Exit)

48

A Night with Uncle Tennessee (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion)

49

Mimosas are Not the Only Brunch Beverage (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit)

50

Getting Dragged by Gods (the Iliad)

51

nolite te bastardes carborundorum (The Handmaid's Tale)

52

Another Robbie Burns Inspired Book (Of Mice and Men)

53

Like Ducks on a Frozen Pond (Catcher in the Rye)

54

Being an Adult at 13 Sucks (Dicey's Song)

55

Irish Catholic Childhoods are Hard (Angela's Ashes)

56

Unfortunately Apt War Allegory is a War Allegory

57

And Nothing Has Changed Since 1974

58

A thinly veiled excuse to talk about Cruel Intentions (Dangerous Liaisons)

59

Button-Induced Trauma (Coraline)

60

Bet You're Pronouncing It Wrong (Eugene Onegin)

61

A Different Goddess in Every Port or Group Projects are a Nightmare (The Odyssey)

62

The Amount of Descriptors Tax My Wits

63

Really Close Friends, Roommates, Just So Close (Carmilla)

64

Spooky Incel Sh*t (Sleepy Hollow)

65

The Very Worst Suicide Squad Film (A Separate Peace)

66

Only Legal in Washington State (Equus)

67

All Loud on the Eastern Back

68

I Am Not Feeling Good (Things Fall Apart)

69

Behold the Cathedral in Which I Grove My F***Bois (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

70

Amanda and Victoria's Retirement Plan (Arsenic and Old Lace)

71

Falling Into the Well of Self Loathing

72

Don’t Call My Name, Orlando

73

The Worst Pepsi Challenge

74

The House on Drama Street

75

Delusions of Grandeur are More Fun with a Friend (Don Quixote)

76

Just Another Victim of Capitalism (Death of a Salesman)

77

The Actual Definition of Witch Hunt (The Crucible)

78

Let's Record an Autopsy (Julius Caesar)

79

I Know Why the Caged Bird Records Podcasts

80

Spear and Sword in Harlem

81

All for One, and Evidently All for D’Artagnan, Mother F'er

82

Madame Will Do (Madame Bovary)

83

Rejected Members of KISS

84

Thanks, It's The Murder (Phantom of the Opera)

85

Why are Children saving the world...again?

86

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Afrofuturism

87

2020 Halloween Spectacular

88

Rich White Man Gets Caught (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

89

No One Gets Flowers

90

I'm a Giver

91

Forgery for Fun and Divorce (A Doll's House)

92

Who Let the Hound Out

93

'Rent' Control

94

Let’s F*** Off to France and Ignore Our Problems (Giovanni's Room)

95

A Spy's Guide to Secret Childhood Trauma

96

Frog and Toad are Queer

97

A Hobbit is More Badass Than You

98

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

99

Our Existential Crisis (The Stranger)

100

Accidentally Aptly Timed (The Lord of the Flies)

101

Are We Dead or Just Resting? (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)

102

To Read or Not To Read (is that even a question, Hamlet?)

103

Not-So-Quiet Aunt Jane (Pride and Prejudice)

104

Withering Interest (Wuthering Heights)

105

The 2019 Unfortunate Retrospective

106

Ambrose Bierce Crosses The Line (or a Bridge)

107

Only Women Get Punished for Sex (The Scarlet Letter)

108

Claret Out of Spite (Ethan Frome)

109

Episode 22: It's Franken-Steen

110

Drunkula (Dracula)

111

This is Not a Guide to Murdering Birds

112

Romeo and Juliet is Not a Love Story

113

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Listen Here

114

The Real Hell is Ye Olde English- Paradise Lost

115

Friends Don't Let Friends Go Bohemian

116

Anxiety Makes Terrible Murderers

117

Short Story: Rimbaud and Verlaine, Bad Boys of French Poetry

118

Much Ado About Sappho

119

Short Story: Goodnight Moon and Margaret Wise Brown

120

Dorian Gray's Not-So Excellent Homoerotic Adventure (Now With Full Audio)

121

The Pride Month Primer

122

Better than Lord of the Flies

123

Episode 11: Slavery and Spiteful Ghosts

124

Their Eyes Were Watching Halle Berry and the Case of the Missing Audio

125

Short Story: The Proletariat Comma

126

Our First Catastrophic Recording Failure

127

A Short Story: Victoria Reads 50 Shades of Grey

128

Furry Mr. Nihilism

129

A Scandinavian Warrior Walks Into A Mead Hall

130

A Really Sh**ty Island Vacation

131

Eyre BnB

132

Victory Gin and Rats to the Face

133

That Time Being Gay Ruined a Perfectly Good Dinner

134

The Toxic Masculinity Also Rises

135

The Not-So-Great Gatsby

136

Episode One: Watership Man Down