Unfortunately Required Reading

A Whole New World (Brave New World) 09.09.2023 2:06:55 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, ethnobotany, drugs, and enough weird stuff to fill a 2-hour podcast.

Episode 104: Paper Folding Peace Signs (Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes) 19.08.2023 1:25:12 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, as well as the atomic bomb and the lasting effects on America and how it is viewed internationally.

Look Down (Les Miserables) 22.07.2023 1:22:59 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Victor Hugo's massive fan fiction, Les Misérables.

Is the Movie Better? (Breakfast at Tiffany's) 10.06.2023 1:06:56 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Happy Pride!

Animal Harm (Animal Farm) 20.05.2023 1:37:02 ↓

This month Amanda and Victoria discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, and the historical events that inspired it.

F*** You, Mark Twain 22.04.2023 1:31:46 ↓

By some miracle, we made it to 100 episodes. This week we discuss Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and wonder why we give this book to children.

I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca) 30.03.2023 1:10:01 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.

Death From Above (The War of the Worlds) 18.03.2023 1:56:00 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds.

The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago) 26.02.2023 1:19:29 ↓

This is the reuploaded version of our episode on Doctor Zhivago. Some listeners advised the end had been cut off by our editing software. Thank you!  This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the drag that is Doctor Zhivago and why it was so scary to the USSR.

A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas) 12.02.2023 1:31:38 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas .

The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden) 21.01.2023 50:58 ↓

Amanda and Victoria FINALLY get to record together in person for the first time in....almost three years?  Welcome back with The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. We discuss ableism, rest cures, and the garden metaphor. 

A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) 07.01.2023 53:49 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria read a book that managed to break Victoria, Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull .

Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond) 18.12.2022 58:20 ↓

Amanda and Victoria discuss The Witch of Blackbird Pond and why Kit definitely would have been found guilty of witchcraft in Connecticut.

Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid) 11.12.2022 1:19:43 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the uncomfortable dating history of Hans Christan Andersen...wait, we mean The Little Mermaid. 

Do Androids Dream of Dick? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) 19.11.2022 1:11:43 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick, the book that was adapted loosely into Blade Runner .

So You're Saying I Can Dodge? (Neuromancer) 06.11.2022 1:34:02 ↓

Amanda, Victoria, and special guest Baron Von Cheeseplate discuss William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Trauma All the Way Down (The Haunting of Hill House) 23.10.2022 1:10:09 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria cover spooky season with Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House.

Episode 88: It Was a Monkey? (Murders in the Rue Morgue) 08.10.2022 56:08 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe for Spooky Season.

These are the MF Jokes (Oedipus Rex) 24.09.2022 1:17:35 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sophocles' work Oedipus Rex (aka Oedipus the King) and make surprisingly few jokes about incest.

Sexting in the Time of Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera) 10.09.2022 1:08:44 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria read Love in the Time of Cholera.

Encanto with Incest (One Hundred Years of Solitude) 13.08.2022 1:19:01 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the most beloved Latin American novel of all time, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude .

Sartre Diem (No Exit) 31.07.2022 1:16:02 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sartre's one-act play No Exit .

A Night with Uncle Tennessee (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) 23.07.2022 1:06:14 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Tennesse Williams' one act play, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion. 

Mimosas are Not the Only Brunch Beverage (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit) 01.07.2022 1:09:58 ↓

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are Not the Only Fruit.

Getting Dragged by Gods (the Iliad) 18.06.2022 1:29:53 ↓

This week we discuss the Iliad for Pride month.