All Episodes
Unfortunately Required Reading — 136 episodes
Antisemitic Fan Fiction (Ivanhoe)
Unfortunate Fan Fiction (Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
Don't Make Fun of a God's Mom (The Bacchae)
Keep Your Friends Close, Vampires Closer (The Vampyre by John Polidori)
Another Book That Was Clearly a Cry for Help (Dicey's Song)
Episode 124: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Italy (The Aeneid)
The Book Club
Episode 123: Not a Single Woman of Color Was Involved or Asked (The Second Sex)
Isn't this An Episode of Family Guy (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Tocqueville's American Travel Vlog (Democracy in America)
That's Showbiz Kid (A Confederacy of Dunces)
Inconceivable! Anybody want a Peanut? (The Princess Bride)
The Haunted Audio (Turn of the Screw)
Diet Malthus (Ishmael)
This is My Roman Empire (I, Claudius)
Episode 115: Word by Word (Bird by Bird)
City of Naw (City of Night)
Following the White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)
Little Scam on the Prairie (Little House on the Prairie)
Basically, Just Real Life in Late Stage Capitalism (Fahrenheit 451)
Episode 110: I Bet on Losing Dogs (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
Strong Independent Pilgrim (Little Women)
A Bug's Life (Metamorphosis)
This Time, We Want to Join a Cult (or Build a Submarine)
Do You Want to Get Sued? (The Shining)
A Whole New World (Brave New World)
Episode 104: Paper Folding Peace Signs (Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes)
Look Down (Les Miserables)
Is the Movie Better? (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Animal Harm (Animal Farm)
F*** You, Mark Twain
I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)
Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)
The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)
A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas)
The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden)
A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid)
Do Androids Dream of Dick? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
So You're Saying I Can Dodge? (Neuromancer)
Trauma All the Way Down (The Haunting of Hill House)
Episode 88: It Was a Monkey? (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
These are the MF Jokes (Oedipus Rex)
Sexting in the Time of Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera)
Encanto with Incest (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Sartre Diem (No Exit)
A Night with Uncle Tennessee (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion)
Mimosas are Not the Only Brunch Beverage (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit)
Getting Dragged by Gods (the Iliad)
nolite te bastardes carborundorum (The Handmaid's Tale)
Another Robbie Burns Inspired Book (Of Mice and Men)
Like Ducks on a Frozen Pond (Catcher in the Rye)
Being an Adult at 13 Sucks (Dicey's Song)
Irish Catholic Childhoods are Hard (Angela's Ashes)
Unfortunately Apt War Allegory is a War Allegory
And Nothing Has Changed Since 1974
A thinly veiled excuse to talk about Cruel Intentions (Dangerous Liaisons)
Button-Induced Trauma (Coraline)
Bet You're Pronouncing It Wrong (Eugene Onegin)
A Different Goddess in Every Port or Group Projects are a Nightmare (The Odyssey)
The Amount of Descriptors Tax My Wits
Really Close Friends, Roommates, Just So Close (Carmilla)
Spooky Incel Sh*t (Sleepy Hollow)
The Very Worst Suicide Squad Film (A Separate Peace)
Only Legal in Washington State (Equus)
All Loud on the Eastern Back
I Am Not Feeling Good (Things Fall Apart)
Behold the Cathedral in Which I Grove My F***Bois (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Amanda and Victoria's Retirement Plan (Arsenic and Old Lace)
Falling Into the Well of Self Loathing
Don’t Call My Name, Orlando
The Worst Pepsi Challenge
The House on Drama Street
Delusions of Grandeur are More Fun with a Friend (Don Quixote)
Just Another Victim of Capitalism (Death of a Salesman)
The Actual Definition of Witch Hunt (The Crucible)
Let's Record an Autopsy (Julius Caesar)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Records Podcasts
Spear and Sword in Harlem
All for One, and Evidently All for D’Artagnan, Mother F'er
Madame Will Do (Madame Bovary)
Rejected Members of KISS
Thanks, It's The Murder (Phantom of the Opera)
Why are Children saving the world...again?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Afrofuturism
2020 Halloween Spectacular
Rich White Man Gets Caught (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
No One Gets Flowers
I'm a Giver
Forgery for Fun and Divorce (A Doll's House)
Who Let the Hound Out
'Rent' Control
Let’s F*** Off to France and Ignore Our Problems (Giovanni's Room)
A Spy's Guide to Secret Childhood Trauma
Frog and Toad are Queer
A Hobbit is More Badass Than You
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Our Existential Crisis (The Stranger)
Accidentally Aptly Timed (The Lord of the Flies)
Are We Dead or Just Resting? (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
To Read or Not To Read (is that even a question, Hamlet?)
Not-So-Quiet Aunt Jane (Pride and Prejudice)
Withering Interest (Wuthering Heights)
The 2019 Unfortunate Retrospective
Ambrose Bierce Crosses The Line (or a Bridge)
Only Women Get Punished for Sex (The Scarlet Letter)
Claret Out of Spite (Ethan Frome)
Episode 22: It's Franken-Steen
Drunkula (Dracula)
This is Not a Guide to Murdering Birds
Romeo and Juliet is Not a Love Story
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Listen Here
The Real Hell is Ye Olde English- Paradise Lost
Friends Don't Let Friends Go Bohemian
Anxiety Makes Terrible Murderers
Short Story: Rimbaud and Verlaine, Bad Boys of French Poetry
Much Ado About Sappho
Short Story: Goodnight Moon and Margaret Wise Brown
Dorian Gray's Not-So Excellent Homoerotic Adventure (Now With Full Audio)
The Pride Month Primer
Better than Lord of the Flies
Episode 11: Slavery and Spiteful Ghosts
Their Eyes Were Watching Halle Berry and the Case of the Missing Audio
Short Story: The Proletariat Comma
Our First Catastrophic Recording Failure
A Short Story: Victoria Reads 50 Shades of Grey
Furry Mr. Nihilism
A Scandinavian Warrior Walks Into A Mead Hall
A Really Sh**ty Island Vacation
Eyre BnB
Victory Gin and Rats to the Face
That Time Being Gay Ruined a Perfectly Good Dinner
The Toxic Masculinity Also Rises
The Not-So-Great Gatsby
Episode One: Watership Man Down