Kennedy Weible and Rebecca Weible

Reading Pop Classics

Arts EN ↓ 40 episodes

Reading Pop Classics dives into books with mass appeal. Hosts Kennedy and Rebecca read and discuss popular books that captured the reading public, exploring their background and impact and discussing the characters, themes, and plots that elevated them into pop classics. Write to us at readingpopclassics@gmail.com

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Kennedy Weible and Rebecca Weible

Episodes

15. Play It As It Lays 28.08.2024 1:28:40

We cover Joan Didion's classic, Play It As It Lays.

14. Less Than Zero 13.08.2024 1:25:09

Rebecca and Kennedy get mopey and nihilistic with a book about grim, emotionless reality of being....rich? Saddle up for Bret Easton Ellis's debut classic, Less Than Zero.

13. Bridget Jones's Diary 05.08.2024 1:45:44

Kennedy and Rebecca discuss Helen Fielding's hilarious and beloved Bridget Jones's Diary. V.G.

12. Americanah 15.07.2024 1:49:19

Rebecca and Kennedy re-read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 classic, Americanah. From Nigeria to America and England and back to Nigeria, our hosts discuss the journey from home to home.

11. The Sellout 06.06.2024 1:17:18

This time, Kennedy and Rebecca are talking about Paul Beatty's 2017, Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Sellout.

10. Conversations with Friends 18.05.2024 1:31:37

In this episode, Rebecca and Kennedy have a conversation about Conversation with Friends....the episode is better than this play on words suggests.

09. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 23.04.2024 1:28:28

Activate your electronic thumb, pack a thermos of Pan-galactic Gargle Blasters, and obviously don't forget your towel. We're discussing the comedy classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

08. Little Fires Everywhere 28.03.2024 1:12:55

Rebecca and Kennedy get out the fire extinguishers for Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.

07. Parable of the Sower 12.03.2024 1:35:45

In this episode Rebecca and Kennedy discuss Octavia E. Butler's speculative fiction novel The Parable of the Sower, set in a chaotic, bleak, and dangerous future in the year....2024? Ah nerts. That's not good.

06. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine 23.02.2024 1:56:09

Kennedy and Rebecca read Gail Honeyman's international bestseller and discover that Eleanor Oliphant is absolutely not fine. She's definitively not okay.

05. Salvage the Bones 13.02.2024 1:42:32

Kennedy and Rebecca fawn over Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award winner, Salvage the Bones in this episode.

04. The Outsiders 29.01.2024 1:14:58

We read S.E. Hinton's classic, The Outsiders, considered to be the original YA novel.

03. Valley of the Dolls 20.01.2024 1:37:38

Kennedy and Rebecca read Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, one of the best selling books of all time with over 30 million copies sold (according to Wikipedia, anyway).

02. Slaughterhouse Five 18.01.2024 59:08

Kennedy and Rebecca follow Billy Pilgrim as he comes unstuck in time in Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five.

01. A Confederacy of Dunces 18.01.2024 1:10:02

In the inaugural episode, Kennedy and Rebecca discuss John Kennedy Toole's comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces.