Uncited: An English Lit Podcast

We're saying goodbye in the only way we can. Thanks for the memories, everyone. It's been a blast.

Amy is bringing us a book review of The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney! This one has the honour of being THE LAST BOOK WE TALK ABOUT ON THE SHOW OH MY GOSH.

We are finally wrapping up our discussion of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series with Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour! Join us and Ben from Words About Books.

Amy is joined by Sam who tries, and succeeds, to convince her to watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, by introducing her to Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R. R. Martin.

We're talking about Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith! Oh, they've got JOKES today. (Victorian jokes (actually funny ones (no, seriously.)))

We're talking about Stuart McLean, whom Amy says is an integral part of English Canadian culture but whom Chantelle first heard of from Amy, just now! Featuring holiday stories and Dave Cooks the Turkey from The Vinyl Cafe.

Remember when Frankenstein's creature read Ozymandias? Yeah, us too. We're talking about Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley! (And........Horace Smith?)

We're going wayyyy back to our roots, revisiting Frankenstein from our very first episode. But this time we're mixing it up a little (the format, not the body parts). It's the 2025 Guillermo del Toro movie!

It's HAPPENING!!! We are FINISHING The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling by Henry Fielding! Get ready for the plot twist to end all plot twists, in the novel to change all novels.

We're STILL talking about Henry Fielding's book, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling! We learn that Tom is a bit of a [long-handled gardening tool that can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker]. And he's been kissing Sophia's WHAT now?

We're back at it again with The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, Books 3-7! Tom is accidentally the luckiest person in the world.

We're talking about Amy's favourite book, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding! Infants are abandoned! Women get called terrible names for getting pregnant out of wedlock! It's 800 pages!

We're talking about The Ballad of Mulan from 5th-6th century China! We talk gender, war, class, and how literature course options should be better!

It's songs as poems part two! Can you guess the song? Will Amy think all of them are by Taylor Swift or Relient K? Find out!

Yes! It's the funny literature break we've been promising! We're talking about comedy poetry legend Ogden Nash, wordplay, and perhaps a new way to look at all of society as a whole?

We're finishing Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy with the final book, The Ghost Road! Be sure to follow along with this week's discussion questions: What? Why? Huh?

We're continuing the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker with Book 2: The Eye in the Door! This one is suddenly a lot bleaker than the last one, uh oh! Luckily, there's lots of smashin' to make up for it.

It's trilogy time! We're talking about Regeneration, Book 1 of the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker. Featuring familiar faces from World War 1 literature, a hospital magazine, and canon queer readings. Content warnings: War, death, corpses, mutilation, dismembered body parts, PTSD, dead animals, attempted suicide, conversion therapy.

You ever remember a book one way, and then you re-read it and it's... not that? Yeah, that was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. CONTENT WARNINGS: Sexual assualt, abuse of authority, physical assault, racism, light homophobia, animal suffering, animal death, abortion. Yeah, sorry y'all.

We're back talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Volume 5 in the series)! Featuring linguistics, comic book-specific literary techniques, and porch light sensors.

Amy, Chantelle, and Mr. E. Sangria are reading Am I The A**hole Stories from Read-it, the version of Reddit for fictional characters only! Are these guys in the wrong? And what stories are they from, anyway?

The long-awaited second part of our children's lit episode, four years after the original! Thank you to everyone who submitted audience recommendations for picture books many, many moons ago. And we are joined by a Very Special Guest who has Lots Of Experience reading to children!

We're talking about The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel! This Canadian book by an Uncited alumnus author delves into murder accusations, investment fraud, and GHOSTS.

We're talking about Billy Bishop Goes to War, a musical by Eric Peterson and John MacLachlan Gray! Have you ever wanted to talk about World War I but make it fun and quirky and then make it very very sad? Fly on over.

We're welcoming back our good friend Az (calscalzones on Bluesky) to talk about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Volume 4 of the Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! We're talking allll the L words.