Two English Majors Walk Into A Bar

Happy Pride!!! Your favorite English Majors are kicking off June with a few sweaty, stinky characters with ridiculous southern nicknames. Cathleen is covering Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams) and we are about to learn all about drinking until we "hear the click". #LetsGetLit #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Would your friends tell you if you had something in your teeth? Your fly was unzipped? You were completely naked? This week Christian explore the invisible fashion of The Emperor's New Clothes (Hans Christian Andersen) and we get deep into the political idioms presented from this children's story! #Let'sGetLit #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar #ClassicalLiterature @ChristianLutes @Cathleen...

"She said, what about..." That's right Lit Nerds! This month is all about Fashion and Cathleen is covering Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote). Not that anyone asked for The English Majors' opinions on The Met Gala, the UES, or Aquariuses...but we are ready to give them anyway :) #Let'sGetLit #TwoEnglishMajors @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Surprise! Cathleen can't keep and surpise and Christian always figures out the plot twist! This week Christian chooses Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro) from the 3 April Foolz options. Some of you might see the plot twist coming a mile away, but the English Majors are still figuring out where Norfolk is... #Let'sGetLit #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLut...

APRIL FOOLZ 2025!!! Men will literally do everything other than go to therapy... Including traveling to mysterious fantasy islands full of Polly Pocket people, giants, and horse girls. This week Cathleen covers Gulliver's Travels (Swift) after Chrsitian presents her 3 April Foolz options! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar #2EM #Let'sGetLit @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

It's time to do a little work on ourselves by walking across multiple countries and realizing the treasure was right back where we started. This week Christian covers The Alchemist  (Coelho) and we learn all about our 'personal legends' and are transformed in the end. Let'sGetLit!!! #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

Spring is HERE! And the English Majors are ready for the transformation. This week Cathleen covers Metamorphoses (Ovid) which inspired all our favorite authors from the Renaissance and beyond! We might not have time to get into all 250 myths, but we will definitely hit the big ones and troll our own knowledge of the Roman Empire. #Let'sGetLIT #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @Ch...

We are finally getting into the sexy fairy books!!! This week Christian is covering A Court of Mist and Fury from the Sarah J. Maas series you all know and love! Are you also slighly put off by the bat wings...? We tried to jump right in to the smut on this one, but the novel gave us mostly foreplay. #Let'sGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

Happy Smut Month Everyone! The English Majors might not know which French Revolution this novel is set in, but we sure know a lot about these sex driven Libertines. Join us as Cathleen covers Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) and we discuss the reprehensible behavior in these letters. #Let'sGetLIT #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Try and say that episode title 3 times fast! The English majors are back this week examining why you may or may not a deep throat Freud complex or Schalhausen Trouble. Christian is covering Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do a collection of essays written by E. B. White and James Thurber while we continue to celebrate the new entries into the public domain. #Let'sGetLit @TwoEngl...

You might have seen the film, but now the novel is PUBLIC DOMAIN! That's right- Cathleen is covering The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett! Join your two favorite English Majors on this wild ride in search of a shiny bird that may or may not be worth a lot of money. #Let'sGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Its our final trip through Middle Earth for this holiday season! This week Christian covers The Return of the King (Tolkien) teaching us all that Saruman is a pick-me-girl...ew. While Frodo might be the Project Manager of getting the ring to Mout Doom... Sam 100% did all the work in the group project. Join your favorite hobbit-like English Majors to send off 2024 like the Elves leaving for the Und...

We're not regular Orcs, we're cool Orcs! This week Cathleen is perpetually confused about which two towers we are talking about and Wizards will do literally anything but go to therapy. Join your favorite English Majors while we chat about The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Tolkien). #Let'sGetLIT #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Get in loser, we're going to Mordor! Join us this holiday season for a fellowship set up by Elves that immediately falls apart... Well, kind of. Grab your beers and sing a happy little hobbit drinking song while Christian covers Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien). #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar #Let'sGetLit #2EM @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

Welcome to our MARATHON of MIDDLE EARTH!!! For the next 2 months the English Majors will be on a quest to explore JRR Tolkien's fantasy world, characters, and contracted Wizards who clearly have other obligations. This week Cathleen covers The Hobbit - We're Going On An Adeventure! @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar #2EM #LetsGetLit @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Shirley did us right with this one!! This week Cathleen covers The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson) and we learn why Eleanor got kicked out of ghost summer camp. Get ready to get your spooky season fix with the two English majors! #LetsGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Are you ready for SPOOKY SEASON!!! Well the English Major certainly are! This week Christian tells us all about those scary stories (and illustrations) that chilled our bones when we were babies in the 80s and 90s. That's right, we are digging into Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (Schwartz)! #LetsGetLIT #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

This week's Lit packs colonialism, incest, AND magic mushrooms all into one Gothic Horror novel! Christian takes us all on the rollercoaster that is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Let's get LIT!!! #2EM #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

It only took Cathleen 100 years of Wikipedia to make it through One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)! It's Hispanic Heritage Month and the English Majors are getting LIT in the disco ball city! #LetsGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

How many French Revolutions did you learn about in high school? This week Christian tells us all about her favorite musical Les Miserables (novel by Victor Hugo). We learn about a love square and what happens when you steal some bread in 19th century France. #LetsGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

Are you Brat? The English Majors are having a Brat Girl Summer and a Moliere Moment with this episode. Cathleen covers The Misanthrope by Moliere and we learn all about Alceste's hoe phase and why he can't have fake friends at the French Court! #Let'sGetLit #2EM #TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Get your cheese and crackers and heads and hands... That's right, it's time for Girl Dinner! Christian takes us back to ancient Rome covering Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare) and you know we are going to address the cannibalism! #Let'sGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback

What are your teenage boys doing for fun this summer? Join the English Majors as we cover ALLLL the misguided BOY MATH in William Golding's Lord of the Flies . #Let'sGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes

Are you ready to get your Fantasy fix for the end of June? Well, don't worry becuase Christian is covernig Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett! We learn all about the Discworld and a festive little fool that jingles away angrily only to become the king! #LetsGetLit @ChristianLutes @CathleenBrumback @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar

This month the English Majors are haunting your dreams with Fantasy Literature! In this episode, Cathleen takes a shot of Malort and tells us all about Morpheus in Neil Gaiman comic book series The Sandman ... and all of Morpheus' other names too... #Let'sGetLit #2EM @TwoEnglishMajorsWalkIntoABar @CathleenBrumback @ChristianLutes