Chatting about the Classics

For this episode I've assembled a crack team of book nerds to discuss 'the classics.: Megan (@feminist.fiction), Noah (@everyone_who_reads_), Seth (@wastemailinglist) and Matty (@theobliterature). We debate what constitutes a classic, which ones we love and loathe, and if we need to expand our notion of the term.Books mentioned in this episode:America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic by Phillip Freedenberg, illustrated by Jeff WaltonOpen Water by Caleb Azumah NelsonWestern Stories by Joe CarducciWyoming Stories by Joe CarducciStone Male: Requiem for the Living Picture by Joe CarducciEveryman by Philip RothThe Awakening by Kate ChopinPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysThe Wasteland by T.S. EliotThe Chrysalids by John WyndhamAnimal Farm by George OrwellNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingMeasure for Measure by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayFrankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus by Mary ShelleyBeowulfStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerTess of the d’Ubervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas HardyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel CervantesThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOthello by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyDracula by Bram StokerStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleDune by Frank HerbertThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Art of War by Sun TzuCandide, ou l’Optimisme by VoltaireMeditations by Marcus AureliusPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFar from the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyThe Recognitions by William GaddisMoby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradEpitaph of a Small Winner by Joaquim Maria Machado de AssisThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebePoetics by AristotleThe Republic by PlatoGo Set a Watchman by Harper LeeThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovHeart of a Dog by Mikhail BulgakovIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustUlysses by James JoyceThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois2666 by Roberto BolañoMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonToo Loud a Solitude by Bohumil HrabalThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesEqual Rites by Terry PratchettAny Day You Can Die by Thommy WaiteMusic by Tom Caruana: https://tomcaruana-teasea.bandcamp.com/Chatting Lit logo and artwork by Emma Morris (@emmamorrisdesign)