READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. (Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)
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We’ve all had a discussion or an argument about popular culture. Sometimes it happens on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Maybe it was in a literature, history, philosophy or psychology class in college. Perhaps it was at the local comic book shop. Or maybe it was at a bar and you ended up stabbing someone with a bottle or bludgeoning them with a pool cue. All of these discussions are exactly the same. The tenured professor at an academic conference deconstructing Batman through a Derrida lens i ...
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The Literary Round Table is the only place online where readers get to interact with their favorite fiction or non-fiction authors and experts in a variety of fields. We bring your favorite authors to the Literary Round Table for interesting, fun and free-wheeling discussions on a variety of topics, and you have the opportunity to interact with them by asking questions or commenting via Twitter or email! You can listen to the discussion at your convenience by going to one of several websites ...
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Where Factual and Fictional Engage In Fisticuffs! Have you ever wondered who would win a fight between the US Presidents? Have you ever shuddered at the possibilities of superheroes, movie characters, and literary icons coming to blows? Want to learn history in the most action movie way possible? Let the battle begin!
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Sixty-three essays on a variety of topics as wide apart as Family Life in America, Opera Synopses, Bigamy, International Finance and many more, Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley strangely enough does not touch upon romance at all! However, these delightful notes provide hours of browsing pleasure for young and old readers alike. Robert Benchley was a well-known humorist and newspaper columnist, radio and television presenter, actor, scriptwriter and broadcaster. He is also credited with c ...
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So here’s a weird question for you… in a TV show like Batman, do the regular people know the phrase “dynamic duo?” In the movie Amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker uses… The post e332. The 4th Wall Bounce: The Reflexivity of Media and Culture appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Mikey Wood
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We’re quickly running out of summer and as we do the new school year is even more quickly approaching. That means, for those of us who teach classes… or who… The post e331. Understanding the Syllabus: Learning Frameworks and Inclusive Practices appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Hannah Lee Rogers
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If you’re a fan of geek media, you likely noticed two important things from Marvel Studios last week. One was the long-awaited release of Deadpool & Wolverine. The second was… The post e330. The Immortal Legacy: Aging Actors and Endless Franchises appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Monica Geraffo, Mike Mazzacane, Samantha Tecson
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Episode 53: Rambling Down THE ROAD with Bryan Vescio
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This 54th episode of READING MCCARTHY takes a long ramble down THE ROAD, McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a father and son enduring life in a harrowing, ashen landscape after some undisclosed apocalypse. For this discussion I’m glad to welcome back guest Dr. Bryan Vescio. Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in Nor…
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It’s been a hell of a week. Ok, let’s face it… it’s been a hell of a summer. This is a pop culture show and so we try to stay… The post e329. Biographies, Blockbusters, And Biden! What a Week! appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Hannah Lee Rogers, Stephanie Siler
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It’s been a weird week of American politics. And we can’t really keep up. Yeah, we know something big happened this week (the whole shakeup of the democratic nomination) but… The post e328. What’s the Deal with Presidential Assassinations? appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Monica Geraffo, Stephanie Siler
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Recently an 18year old college student who calls herself alisha not alihsha posted a vlog where she argues in favor of what she calls “being a hater” in her video… The post e327. Decoding Literary Criticism: From BookTok to Shakespeare appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Katya Gorecki, Nicole Freim
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Every once in a while we like to do something really different on the show. This is one of those times. Since the team is all on vacation in various… The post e326. From Mr. Ed to the Minions: Pop Culture Across Generations appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav
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e325. So You Have To Write a Prospectus? Now What Is It, Exactly? (and can an ointment clear it up?)
One of the best parts about being an academic is that you “get summers off.” One of the worst parts of being an academic is “your off days are just… The post e325. So You Have To Write a Prospectus? Now What Is It, Exactly? (and can an ointment clear it up?) appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Monica Geraffo
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Episode 52 is a round table considering the impact of Ernest Hemingway’s writing on the works of Cormac McCarthy. Joining us for this discussion are Dr. Olivia Carr Edenfield, Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. She is a founding member of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and Director of the American Literature…
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It’s that time again… we’ve had another year of Bridgerton and of course we had to analyze it. Think about it, it’s a show about British regency society. In some… The post e324. Unpacking Bridgerton Season 3: Penelope, Queerness, and Fandom Reactions appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monca Geraffo, Corinne Matthews
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So how about that Barbie? No, not THAT Barbie… we did a show on the movie last year. No, what we want to talk about is enduring legacy of the… The post e323. The Complex Legacy of Barbie: Gender, Fashion & Identity appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monica Geraffo, Jehnie Burns, Jonathan Alexandratos
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It’s somehow been five years since Disney’s acquisition of Fox and the impending promise therein of having the X-men added into the MCU. While we have … let’s just say… The post e322. 4 Killer Out-of-the-Box X-men Movie Pitches for the MCU appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Stephanie Siler, Andrew Darowski, Kestra Darowski
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A couple weeks ago, Apple Music released their list of the 100 Best Albums of all time. This isn’t really new. People do it all the time. In fact, Rolling… The post e321. The All-Time Best All-Time Best Albums List of All Time appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Stephanie Siler, Quentin Harrison
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What do you do if you’re in couple that was designed on an 80s sitcom so you have extremely traditional gender roles of a feminine partner who loves lovey dovey… The post e320. Adrenaline and Affection: Exploring the Action Romance Genre appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Hannah Lee Rogers, Stephanie Siler, Josh Stroud
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There’s an argument that the current wave of superhero dominated content that pervades popular media doesn’t begin with the MCU but with X-men the Animated Series, a cartoon that ran… The post e319. X-men ’97 Revisited: Superheroes, Sacrifices, & Saturday Mornings appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Hannah Lee Rogers, Andrew Deman, Jeremy Carnes
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(Note from Mav. This is an episode about A.I. and Academic writing… so I decided to just let Descript‘s A.I. take a stab at writing the show notes all by… The post e318. A.I. in Academia: Balancing Technology and Traditional Learning appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Katya Gorecki, Annette Vee
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Sometimes when the world is on fire, you just want to watch a dumb feel good sports movie. Right now the world is on fire, so we thought maybe we’d… The post e317: From Field to Frame: Life Lessons from Sports Movies appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Monica Geraffo, Les Kay
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Episode 51: Teaching McCarthy Round Table
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Although the fact often goes unacknowledged, it is a truth that sometimes an author’s residence within and endurance in the canon is a result of how that author is perceived and taught in the academy. Most literary scholars are also professors and teachers. For this episode of Reading McCarthy I round up some of the usual suspects for a panel discu…
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It’s been four years since movies shut down for the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. It’s probably been too long to say we’re still “rebuilding” the box office. We… The post e316. 2024 Summer Movie Season appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Hannah Lee Rogers
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So did you know there was a new remake of The Crow coming out? If you did then chances are, at least according to the internet, that you’re probably outraged… The post e315. Revisiting Classics: The Delicate Art of Remakes and Adaptations appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Nicole Freim
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On this week’s show, all five co-hosts are online to celebrate six years of producing a weekly pseudo academic roundtable of pop culture analysis with drinking and swearing. It isn’t… The post e314. Fashion, Furniture, and Furballs — Six Years of VoxPopcast appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Katya Gorecki, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monica Geraffo
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On this week’s special epsiode we take one last look at this year’s Popular Culture Association conference in Chicago with a look at papers from one of the panels in… The post e313. PCA2024: Adapting X-Men appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, John Darowski, Joe Darowski
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Episode 50: Barreling through No Country for Old Men with Rick Wallach
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The guest for our 50th episode is the OG himself, the redoubtable RICK WALLACH, who joins us for a rousing discussion of No Country for Old Men. Somehow both Batman and Godzilla are referenced as we consider both the novel and the Coen Bros. film. Rick Wallach has recently retired from teaching English at the University of Miami. He is a founder of…
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Six years ago, this show was birthed out of the aftermath of PCA2018, the annual conference for the Popular Culture Association. As is tradition, we’ve once again returned there. PCA2024… The post e312. PCA2024: The AfterParty appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, John Darowski, Joe Darowski, Nicole Freim, Matthew Brake
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Have you ever done that thing where you hear a song that’s a cover of another song you like, only to find out later that you have it backwards and… The post e311. From Original to Ovation: Tracing the Threads of Musical Covers appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Stephanie Siler
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We did a couple of shows in the lead up to the Academy Awards last week. You’ve heard us talk about why the Oscars still exist and what function they… The post e310. The Biggest Oscar Upsets and Travesties appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Joe Darowski, Andrew Darowski
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You know that movie where the hero loses someone he loves to an act of senseless violence and so he embarks on a path of carnage and destruction to gain… The post e309. The Human Kaiju: Translating the Unstoppable Monster To Human Scale appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Henry Arrambide
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It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been exactly a year since our last Oscar show. It’s kind of funny how that works out! Years being annual and all of… The post e308. 2024 Oscars Predictions! appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Vox Populorum
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It seems silly to ask if you’ve seen Madame Web. We can see the box office returns and we know that you probably didn’t. BUT, if you’re listening to our… The post e307. Madame Web, Morbius, and Movies of Obligation appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Monica Geraffo, Stephanie Siler, Lindsay Mahowald
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Last year, almost as if by accident, somehow the surprise hit of cinema was a relatively low budget Godzilla movie. The film, Godzilla Minus One, literally came out of nowhere.… The post e306. Kaiju Kachoo: From Gojira to Godzilla Minus One appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Vox Populorum
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Have you seen that new Dark Academia show about the mysterious elite school for special kids where there’s the one kid who doesn’t seem to belong even amongst the other… The post e305. Dark Academia: a Deep Dive into Murder, Mystery & Midterms appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Monica Geraffo
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e304. Barbie, the Oscars & Leavisism (What’s That Now?)
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Last week the Oscar nominations came out and if you were hanging around the internet, you might have heard one story in particular… Barbie was snubbed. Everyone was talking about… The post e304. Barbie, the Oscars & Leavisism (What’s That Now?) appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Monica Geraffo, Stephanie Siler
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Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today! It’s Groundhog Day, and you know what that means! It’s the return of your… The post GroundPod Day 2024! Happy Groundhog Day! appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Vox Populorum
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It could be argued that the pop culture that you absorb makes you who you are. That’s certainly true of the hosts of this show. After all, it’s a show… The post e303. Our Lives in Pop Culture appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Hannah Lee Rogers
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We’ve done shows on AI before and our feelings on how it is being used in art and creative endeavors. We’ve tried to not just be reactionary and alarmist about… The post e302. So, A.I. George Carlin… WHY?!?!? appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Stephanie Siler, A. David Lewis, Christopher Bell
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Episode 49: a Filibuster Panel on the BORDER TRILOGY
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In this episode we head across the border one more time for a consideration of the Border Trilogy as a whole. How does knowing how the story begins and ends change how we read any of the different parts? My guests on this filibuster over the border include Dr. Nell Sullivan, a Kentuckian who earned her BA in English from Vanderbilt University and e…
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It’s no surprise that the US movie box office hit something of a slump last year. With few exceptions (ahem #Barbenheimer) most tried and true tentpole blockbusters underperformed (perhaps not… The post e301. Is Saltburn A Good Movie? appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monica Geraffo, Eric Pitz
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Somehow we’ve been making this show for 300 episodes! We can’t believe it either! And what better way to celebrate that than doing one of our very favorite regular episodes?… The post e300. The 2024 Box Office Draft appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Katya Gorecki, Hannah Lee Roger, Monica Geraffo, Stephanie Siler
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Happy New Year! If you listen to podcasts which you must if you’re listening to this, then you probably know by now that they way people end a year in… The post e299. Things You Missed in 2023! appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Mav, Wayne Wise, Hannah Lee Rogers, Monica Geraffo
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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Merry Christmas from VoxPopcast. The thing is, we’ve been doing Christmas special episodes for the last couple weeks already. And we figure you probably have a Christmas episode or twelve… The post e298. Why Does Everyone Hate Mary Sues? appeared first on The VoxPopcast.By Vox Populorum
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy Robert Benchley
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