You Don't Know Lit

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Book club meets fight club - each week high school English teachers Dr. Ian DeJong and Joe Holschuh each bring a book to share with their friend Nick Argires. Weekly themes, winners and recommendations.

Location:

United States

Genres:

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Description:

Book club meets fight club - each week high school English teachers Dr. Ian DeJong and Joe Holschuh each bring a book to share with their friend Nick Argires. Weekly themes, winners and recommendations.

Twitter:

@youdontknowlit

Language:

English

Website:

https://www.youdontknowlitpodcast.com/

Email:

youdontknowlit@gmail.com

Episodes

201. Unputdownable (RERUN)

4/29/2024

Basking in our 200th episode for one more week as we take this week off. Throwing it back to our first episode with Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) VS The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1937).

Duration:01:00:11

200. Tolkien Archivist William Fliss

4/22/2024

We're joined by William Fliss - Marquette University's Tolkien Archivist and co-curator for the exhibition J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette’s campus. Marquette owns the manuscripts for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham, and Mr. Bliss as well as research collections totaling over 11,000 pages.

Duration:00:53:39

Ep 199: Books by Billionaires

4/15/2024

The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel by MacKenzie Scott (2005) VS Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton (1992)

Duration:00:54:03

198. Self Help II

4/8/2024

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (2021)

Duration:00:30:57

197. Self Help Books I

4/1/2024

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)

Duration:00:39:44

196. Dystopian Shorts

3/25/2024

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973) VS The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (1909)

Duration:00:48:49

195. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

3/18/2024

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)

Duration:00:34:01

194. Fictional Autobiographies

3/11/2024

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (2016) VS The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

Duration:00:59:45

193. Women's History Month

3/4/2024

Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)

Duration:00:25:55

192. Child Authors

2/26/2024

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (1976)

Duration:00:31:37

191. Corporate Drama

2/19/2024

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010) VS DisneyWar by James B. Stewart (2005)

Duration:00:51:57

190. Arizona

2/12/2024

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1912) VS The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1975)

Duration:00:50:25

189. Public Domain II

2/5/2024

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1928)

Duration:00:25:37

188. Best Books of 2023

1/29/2024

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland (2023) VS A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (2023)

Duration:00:54:27