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Two decades after we graduated from high school, we are ready to pull those classics works of literature we read in our youth off the shelves and read them all over again. Who's with us? Visit our website: rereadpod.com for our book list, episode guides, embarrassing middle school photos, and your chance to re:spond. Join in the bookish fun on Facebook, Instragram, & Twitter @rereadpod!
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In this episode, we're talking Toni Morrison's modern masterpiece Beloved. Memory, magic, motherhood, murder--nothing's off the table in our discussion about this moving and otherworldly novel about a runaway slave who is haunted by her dead daughter's ghost. Listen in, and then join the conversation in the comments section below! To reread with us…
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We came, we saw, we conquered ... Ulysses, James Joyce's modern masterpiece, and what's been called the most difficult book in the English language. Did we understand what we read? You be the judge. (If we had to put a number on it, we'd say we got about 15% of it all. But that's what rereading is for, right?) In Episode 006: Getting Used to Ulysse…
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Whew. This was a tough one for us, Re:Readers. If Alice Walker's The Color Purple is, at times, brutal, scary, sad, and just plain difficult, it is also full of love, hope, and joy. In the end, it is nothing short of triumphant. In Episode 005, "Color Us Moved," we discover that neither of us could complete this classic on the first go-round, but a…
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Earlier this month, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was banned from public schools in Biloxi, Miss., for making people “uncomfortable.” Yup, you read that right. Uncomfortable. Banned. Yikes. Your faithful Re:Readers can’t lie: taking another look at Lee’s masterpiece made us a little uncomfy, too. Difference is, we don’t want to ban it; we want…
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In Episode 003, "The Gals of Wrath" tackle The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and consider the dual trauma of the Dust Bowl and Depression, the power and pitfalls of the protest novel, and the plausibility of a central character going missing halfway through this book. Seriously, where did Noah GO? Travel with us as we join the Joads and make ou…
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Hello Re:Readers! When we launched Re:Read several weeks ago, we realized just how many "unknowns" there were as we delved into the world of podcasting: Would anyone listen? Would anyone interact with us? Would Alix ever learn not to scream into her microphone? We can now give a confident "yes" to the former two questions. Less so for the latter, b…
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Are we more than just "one-hit wonders" yet?!! In this episode we almost have a legitimate fight about the legitimacy of The Catcher in the Rye in the American canon, tackle a near-medical emergency, and accost an imaginary J.D. Salinger in a grocery store. One of the big questions we ponder in this episode is: how autobiographical is J.D. Salinger…
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And we’re off! It took us between 10 and a million hours to create 32 minutes of usable audio for episode 001. Is this normal? Oh well. The important thing is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby--#1 on the list of most essential novels of the 20th century and one of our personal faves! In this, our maiden episode, we’re talking love, loss, the A…
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What's this whole Re:Read thing about? Check out our promo to learn more! We have been working out some technical bits, but hoping to have our first episode, "What's So Great About Gatsby?", launched early next week! We cannot WAIT to reread with you!By Alix + Jess
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