Go Through the Looking-Glass to Wonderland with Alice … and Us
Jay adds Lewis Carroll’s companion novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in English. He and Stacey talk about the delightful ...
19 Aug 202538min
Step with Us to the Original Pirate Tale: Treasure Island
This coming-of-age tale still ranks on Jay’s list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in English, because even as a retiree, the tale of “buccaneers and buried gold” still moves him with its imagination an...
11 Aug 202545min
A Post-Modernist Tale Inspired by an OG Novel: The Sot-Weed Factor
This week’s addition to the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language list is John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor, which Jay loves and Stacey hasn’t read (you might not have either…but you may want to ...
5 Aug 202540min
“The most perfect” novel, Tom Jones, a Foundling
Jay Ruud and Stacey Margaret Jones discuss an OG novel, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, a picaresque novel from the early days of the whole genre of novel writing. Why is it ...
29 Jul 202546min
Come Away to Wuthering Heights With Us
This week Jay has chosen Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, and he and Stacey discuss it along with last week’s entry, Jane Eyre, by...
22 Jul 202543min
Charlotte Brontë Makes the List with Her Gothic Classic Jane Eyre
This week's entry on the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (listen to the pod to learn her pen name for initial publication), which Jay and Stacey discuss...
15 Jul 202546min
A Fable of Colonial Power in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the. Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel still has insight and meaning for us today as it grapples with how colonial power trickles down and through the individuals who administer it. Jay talks about how he selected...
8 Jul 202536min
Atwood’s Dystopian Novel Makes the List
This week, Jay shares in-depth why the disturbing dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a lovable book, even as it envisions a future for the United States that is peak patriarchy....
1 Jul 202546min
