About this podcast
Looking for the sex, drugs, and rock n roll you always wanted in classic works of literature?You’ve come to the right place.
Episodes
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- Season 2 Episode 10 / A Study In Empathy · 23 minThe creature tells Frankenstein its tale. There are three levels of empathy in this chapter. First, Frankenstein listens and imagines what it's like to be in the creatures boots…
- Season 2 Episode 9/ More Awesome Than Bigfoot · 23 minViktor Frankenstein goes for a walk in nature. He's trying to clear his head, to get back in touch with the amazingness of everything that surrounds us and creates a context for…
- Season 2 Episode 8/ Shock & Awe · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 8Viktor is tormented by the idea that his monster killed his little brother and a beloved, innocent woman was falsely accused, wrongly convicted, and executed because of the…
- Season 2 Episode 7/ The Trial of Justine · 29 minJustine. JUSTine. What's in a name? Innocence in the eyes of Viktor Frankenstein and his sister Elizabeth. But will the court agree? And what of Viktor's guilty conscience and…
- Season 2 Episode 6/ MURDER · 29 minIt's the inciting incident of inciting incidents: MURDER. Viktor's little brother William is dead. We don't know who didn't, but there's thunder, lightning, a monster on the…
- Season 2 Episode 5/ My Baby She Wrote Me A Letter · 27 minOnce upon a time, authors moved plots long without chases or explosions or orgasms. Now, I'm the last person to speak out against a good chase or explosion or orgasm, but those…
- LIT AF / The Riff 003: That's What I'm Talking About · 15 minWelcome back to the LIT AF Riff. The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on what's going on in the world and…
- LIT AF / The Riff 004: Honestly · 12 minWelcome back to the LIT AF Riff. The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on what's going on in the world and…
- LIT AF/The Riff002: The Only Food You'll Ever Need · 16 minWelcome back to the LIT AF Riff. The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on what's going on in the world and…
- LIT AF/ The Riff: What's Your Story? · 16 minIt's the first LIT AF Riff! The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews here, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on what's going on in the world and…
- LIT AF Season 5 Episode 4/ The Bell You Can't Unring: Chapter 2 of The Picture of Dorian Gray · 39 minYou can't go back in time. And you can't unhear someone telling you that you can get more of anything – except the last few minutes of your life, because everything that made you…
- LIT AF Season 5 Episode 3/ Step Into My Studio: Chapter 1 of The Picture of Dorian Gray · 33 minWhen does art reveal the artist? When is art too personal to share? What's the deal with Basil and Dorian Gray, why is Lord Henry Wotten so nosy, and speaking of nosy, exactly…
- LIT AF Season 5 Episode 2/ All Art Is Useless: Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray · 16 minOscar ends the preface by writing, "All art is useless." Really? Was he being coy in response to his critics? Was he being defiant in putting sex and homoeroticism front and…
- LIT AF Season 5 Episode 1/ Forever Young: Intro to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray · 29 minToday's cancel culture has nothing on Victorian England. That didn't stop Oscar Wilde from publishing THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, complete with homoeroticism and full frontal…
- LIT AF Season 4 Episode 4: A Christmas Carol/ The Last of the Spirits · 37 minIf you think your future is just going to happen to you no matter what you do, then you may as well listen to this podcast episode. If you think your future depends on what you…
- LIT AF Season 4 Episode 5: A Christmas Carol/ The End of It · 18 minTo quote Jim Morrison: "This is the end, beautiful friends..." You may think Charles Dickens and Jim Morrison were very different. You may think they were the same person in…
- LIT AF Season 4 Episode 3: A Christmas Carol/ The Second of the Three Spirits · 1 h 3 minUgh. I can just see the embroidered pillows: "Right now is a gift, that's why they call it the present." But in this moment you are making the most important decision of your…
- LIT AF Season 4 Episode 1: A Christmas Carol/ Marley's Ghost · 58 minWhen your dead best friend shows up to warn you, best give him both ears. Bonus: Did you know Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in just a few weeks while walking the…
- LIT AF Season 4 Episode 2: A Christmas Carol/ The First of the Three Spirits · 50 minIf you're not haunted by your past, you're not paying attention.
- Season 2 Episode 4: Success Makes Victor Sick · 44 minVictor gets all the body parts he needs to build a monster. Sometimes success isn't all it's cracked up to be.
