Unfortunately Required Reading

This week we sip Darjeeling Milk punch while discussing Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 

This week, Amanda and Tori tackle the epic plat Hamlet by William Shakespeare. We drink a sweet poison, eat havardi, and the fight me bread comes back as we delve into the text. 

This week we discuss the Jane Austen work Pride and Prejudice, while drinking a cocktail named in her honor and chowing down on scones while discussing class structure. 

This week we discuss the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights and do our best not to go off the rails with discussing Heathcliff and sipping Lavender French 75's.

We answer listener questions, share our biggest "ooops" moments and discuss our love for literature.  Happy 2020, all. 

This week's episode is on the Ambrose Bierce short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." We drink a Brandy based cocktail and discuss why Bierce was known as "Bitter Bierce." 

We finish out Pain Month with The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

Welcome to Pain Month! For our one year anniversary (yeah, we made it a year) each host has picked a book of loathing. This week we are discussing Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

This week we discuss Mary Shelley's genre changing work Frankenstein, while drinking a cocktail of the same name and discussing that weird party in Geneva. Bonus, there will be a video floating around of us doing this in Halloween costumes. 

This week's episode focuses on Bram Stoker's Dracula.  We drink sangria, eat Russian Hematoga bars, and much on Irish cheddar while discussing vampires, sexuality, and Abraham Stoker. 

This week we discuss Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird, the controversy over Go Set a Watchman,  drink whiskey, and discuss racism.

This week's episode focuses on the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet .  We drink a rose, eat some awesome cheese, and talk about why this is probably not an appropriate play to hand off to hormonal teenager. Check our our show notes at UnfortunatelyRequiredReading.com . 

This week's episode focuses on Dante's Inferno. Join us as we discuss Italian politics, the Catholic Church, and drink a Chianti from a bottle wrapped in raffia.  

This week we discuss John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost. We drink a fire and iced tea, eat smokey cheese, and contemplate the sexy version of Satan that is very strange.  Oh, and we complain about how long this poem is. 

On this episode we discuss the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and partake of a Corpse Reviver: part 2,.  For show notes and more details, visit UnfortunatelyRequiredReading.com 

As it's Amanda's birthday month, we are delighting in drinking Corpse Revivers while discussing Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart,  cousin love way too young, and thirst letters before Twitter was a thing. 

This week's short story rounds out Pride month with Amanda covering the two bad boys of French Poetry, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. 

 This week's episode is dedicated to melancholy and ouzo as we discuss the works of the poet Sappho. Often maligned, never duplicated, Sappho is a little hard to pin down as quite a bit of her history has been lost or glossed over with satire.  

A quick look to celebrate Margaret Wise Brown. 

 This episode does a dive into The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and features sipping champagne with ice cubes in it, witty banter, the Menger hotel, and odd facts about a fantastic icon.  

Do you know the difference between pansexual and bisexual? Are you confused about what the heck Stonewall was? We provide you with a brief primer on terms on the LGBTQIA+ community. 

This episode is focused on Toni Morrison's Sula. For this week, we drink a mocktail, discuss the difference between blackberries and nightshades, and finish out Toni Morrison month. 

In which we discuss Toni Morrison's Beloved, drink the most painful red wine possible in honor of the color red, and eat cheese to try to deal with our lives. 

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A brief argument about the Oxford Comma.