Intelligence is a wonderful thing, but as this week’s book shows us it isn’t the only thing. In Daniel Keyes’ classic, developmentally disabled man Charlie Gordon is transformed into...

This week’s show is all about revisiting past shows – the book Craig read, John Gardner’s Grendel, is a modern prequel and/or retelling of the Beowulf myth. The book...

In the book’s preface, Vonnegut calledBreakfast of Championsan attempt to “clear his head of all the junk in there.” He wasn’t kidding.Breakfastis a melange of narrative, sketches, and character...

What isAntony and Cleopatra? Tragedy? Romance? History?Comedy? The conventional wisdom is to pick tragedy, but this messy entry in the later chapters of Shakespeare’s canon dances between the Bard’s...

One note for this one: while every episode has a general spoiler warning attached to it, we spoil Yann Martel’s Life of Pi in a pretty big way in...

Craig and Andrew team up with their evil selves this week to read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Well, not really. But in honor of our...

We’re back from our hiatus, and to kick the rust off we’re diving right into a thorny discussion about race, sexuality, and poverty with Alice Walker’s The Color Purple....

“You know Frankenstein’s the name of the doctor, not the monster – right?” Despite decades of metal bolts and flat green foreheads muddying the waters, Mary Shelley’s original Frankensteinhas...

A.A. Milne’s famous bear is almost ninety years old. The first collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories was published in 1926, yet many of us first traveled to the Hundred Acre...