Podcasts

For my website I'm going to create an educational podcast. The reoccurring theme will be literature, so I'll have plenty of material to work with. Since the site is dedicated to becoming a book snob it will have humor in it, but not to the point of becoming slap-stick, or anything like that.  The following ideas could constitute five separate podcasts:

1) An introduction to "Becoming a Book Snob" with a shortlist of novels that any self-respecting aficionado of literature should be familiar with.

2) A guide to literary allusions commonly found in pop culture: because everyone should be able to tritely regurgitate Greek mythology in making metaphors so as to appear clever, despite how lacking or inappropriate that metaphor may be.

3) An episode dedicated to surveying important literary movements, in case you ever need to know the difference between the romantics and the transcendentalists.

4) A guide to the greatest writers from countries that aren't America. Just try telling someone that the best writer ever was Mark Twain. Now tell them that it was Proust, Chekhov, or Voltaire. See the difference in reaction? The former makes you a light reader, the latter choices make you a smug intellectual.

5) An in depth look at the characters from greatest novel ever written: Les Misérables. Without containing spoilers, of course.