You Don't Know Lit

About You Don't Know Lit

Book club meets fight club. Two book recommendations every Monday from high school English teachers Ian and Joe. And Nick.

Publisher

You Don’t Know Lit

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

24 Jun 2020

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

31 of 327 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   327. Annie Dillard.mp3

   Host [Host Name] interviews author Annie Dillard about her contrasting works, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" and "The Writing Life."

2. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   326. The Ottoman Empire

   Literary historian Dr. Vera Mutafchieva and travel writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu discuss their contrasting perspectives on the Ottoman Empire in this insightful interview.

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   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   325. Shorts

   Host [Host Name] interviews literary critics [Guest Name 1] and [Guest Name 2] about the thematic connections between Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck."

Inside a recent episode

327. Annie Dillard.mp3

Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Hey, Ian, what's this book about? So she's in Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She has a home which is near this creek. And so on the one hand, there's like mountains overhead. There's trees around it. On the one hand, this is just a book about her walking out to see the creek at different times of the year in different moods of seasons, observing things and reflecting on them. But she's When she reflects on them, she doesn't just tell them and then like it was the beautiful sunset and the clouds are this color and the mountains are this color. She like brings in the work and thought of scientists and philosophers and theologists, theologians. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

36 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

38 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

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Quality

73

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

85

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