Scott Pilgrim Fades Out (Volume 5)
We're back talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Volume 5 in the series)! Featuring linguistics, comic book-specific literary techniques, and porch light sensors.
Jun 20, 2025•23 min•Ep. 123
Uncited: An English Lit Podcast
Uncited is the internet's least reliable English literature podcast. Join former English majors Amy and Chantelle as they revisit the good, the bad, and the spectacularly ridiculous literary works from their undergrad.
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I'm Getting PAID to SPY on my Friend... AITA?
Amy, Chantelle, and Mr. E. Sangria are reading Am I The A**hole Stories from Read-it, the version of Reddit for fictional characters only! Are these guys in the wrong? And what stories are they from, anyway?
Jun 06, 2025•39 min•Ep. 122
Room in the Classroom: Children's Lit Part 2
The long-awaited second part of our children's lit episode, four years after the original! Thank you to everyone who submitted audience recommendations for picture books many, many moons ago. And we are joined by a Very Special Guest who has Lots Of Experience reading to children!
May 23, 2025•54 min•Ep. 121
Walking on Broken Glass Hotel
We're talking about The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel! This Canadian book by an Uncited alumnus author delves into murder accusations, investment fraud, and GHOSTS.
May 09, 2025•31 min•Ep. 120
Billy Bishop Goes to War, but It Didn't Seem Like War at All
We're talking about Billy Bishop Goes to War, a musical by Eric Peterson and John MacLachlan Gray! Have you ever wanted to talk about World War I but make it fun and quirky and then make it very very sad? Fly on over.
Apr 25, 2025•43 min•Ep. 119
Scott Pilgrim Sort of Gets It Together (Volume 4)
We're welcoming back our good friend Az (calscalzones on Bluesky) to talk about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Volume 4 of the Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! We're talking allll the L words.
Apr 11, 2025•47 min•Ep. 118
It Takes Two Dark Moons to Tango
We're reviewing one of Chantelle's top five favourite books ever, Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver! It's a queer YA fantasy that looks at: What if astrology was a main component of culture? How do we define our role in society? What if a lizard was real big?
Mar 28, 2025•41 min•Ep. 117
The Handmaid's Tale: Don’t Let the Podcast Grind You Down
It's another epistolary novel, which means we're once again joined by special guest Jamie Anderson (jamienerdgirl on Bluesky) to talk about The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood! It's... oof.
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 116
Half-Blood Blues are Just Full-Blood Purples
We're talking about Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan! About taking a nice trip through the Polish countryside because of a music festival and—oh wait—no, it's about the Holocaust. Content warning for genocide, racism, and violence.
Feb 28, 2025•35 min•Ep. 115
The Kappa Child is So Good, No Kappa
This week we're talking about Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child! Featuring Japanese folklore, Little House on the Prairie, a mysterious pregnancy, and so many cucumbers. Keep listening for more Canadian lit coming your way.
Feb 14, 2025•42 min•Ep. 114
Wordy, Thirty, and Thriving: Delicious in Dungeon Volume 2
We're talking about Delicious in Dungeons, Volume 2 by Ryoko Kui! The gang is back at it again with giant chia pets, kelpie friends, and non-edible paintings.
Jan 31, 2025•25 min•Ep. 113
Well Excuse Me, Princess Bride (Part 2)
We're talking about The Princess Bride again! We wrap up the main story then cover some hot takes from our lovely listeners. Buttercup's Baby coming soon (we swear).
Jan 17, 2025•34 min•Ep. 112
Here Comes The Princess Bride
We're talking about Chantelle's favourite book, The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern by William Goldman! If you've seen the movie, buckle up because it's entirely the same yet completely different.
Jan 03, 2025•35 min•Ep. 111
The Snow Ho Ho Queen
It's our last episode of the year and we're talking about Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen! How much does it have in common with Disney's Frozen? And how much does it have in common with The Secret, that 2006 manifestation book?
Dec 20, 2024•30 min•Ep. 110
Can AI Tell Me a Story? (No)
Today we're reading THAT story. The story that pops up when you give ChatGPT the prompt "Tell me a story". Can it do it? (Spoiler: No, it can't.)
Dec 06, 2024•22 min•Ep. 109
We Read Modern Folklore and We Want Modern FolkMORE
This week we're talking about Daniel Perry's Modern Folklore, a book about the things that haunt us: our regrets, our vices, the mysterious figure of a woman with long dark hair, rental units.
Nov 22, 2024•31 min•Ep. 108
In Flanders Field Guide
This week, we talk about In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, along with other World War I poems in honour of Remembrance Day.
Nov 08, 2024•27 min•Ep. 107
Don't Cage Your Little Sapling: Amy Fangirls Over The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
This week Amy is sharing A Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy, her new book recommendation with a signed copy and a lending copy. This story on trans witchcraft talks about earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention, and we talk about cool witch s***.
Oct 25, 2024•37 min•Ep. 106
Stephen, King of Time Travel: 11/22/63
This week we're welcoming back Jamie Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to talk about Stephen King's 11/22/63! Much like the book, we talk about the Kennedy assassination, sure. But mostly other things.
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 105
You Are What You Eat: Delicious in Dungeon Volume 1
This week we're talking about Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui! In which walking mushrooms, screaming roots, and carnivorous plants are on the menu (along with friendship!)
Sep 27, 2024•28 min•Ep. 104
Here Comes the Half of a Yellow Sun
We're talking about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun! This was a standout book and a hearty recommendation, but boy is it rough. Content warnings for genocide, violence, sexual assault, and murder of a pregnant woman.
Sep 13, 2024•35 min•Ep. 103
Scott Pilgrim's Woe Tale Recall (Volume 3)
We're back in the Scott Pilgrim series with Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness! Plus, we're having something of an infinite sadness ourselves. But in a fun, chill way, you know?
Aug 30, 2024•14 min•Ep. 102
Tell Me a Story (Iambic Pentathlon Part 2)
We're back with a group storytelling game! And it gets wild. Check out Glen and Gertie Nuzzles from Nuzzle House and Ben and Nate from Words About Books!
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 101
Iambic Pentathlon: Can You Bulls*** Like an English Major?
This week in honour of our 100th episode, we're playing a game with some of our podcast friends! Check out Jamie @UnabashedJames, Colin @ColinMParker, and Az @Cals_Calzones on Twitter!
Aug 02, 2024•53 min•Ep. 100
On the Twelfth Night of Shakespeare
This week we're talking about William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, stage productions and adaptations, and Bard on the Beach in Vancouver! What does Willy do when he's scared? Willy Shakes.
Jul 19, 2024•22 min•Ep. 99
Chantelle is a Swiftie (The Tortured Poets Department Part 2)
This week we're finishing up The Tortured Poets Department section from Taylor Swift's Eras tour set. Songs covered are Down Bad, Fortnight, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.
Jul 05, 2024•45 min•Ep. 98
Taylor Swift: The Poets Will Continue To Be Tortured Until Society Improves
Is Chantelle... a Swiftie? In honour of the 18th birthday of Taylor Swift's music career, we're talking about songs from The Tortured Poets Department section of the Eras tour set: But Daddy I Love Him, So High School, and Who's Afraid of Little Old Me.
Jun 21, 2024•45 min•Ep. 97
"I Think Emily Dickinson's a Lesbian." "Partial Credit."
This week we're talking about Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her lifelong gal pal Susan Gilbert. References are mostly from Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert by Maria Popova. Happy Pride! P.S. The world's oldest queer book store, Glad Day, needs help keeping its doors open as one of the city's core safe spaces! Can you help save Glad Day Bookshop? https://www.gladday.ca/savegladday
Jun 07, 2024•38 min•Ep. 96
Bridgerton Book 1: The D*** and I
In honour of the release of Bridgerton Season 3, we're tackling the first book in Julia Quinn's series, The Duke and I! We chat about daddy issues, "The Talk", and swimming in the River Thames. Content warning for sexual assault.
May 24, 2024•38 min•Ep. 95
Beowulf's Party Cost an Arm and a Head
We're finally talking about Beowulf, the epic poem written for 300 years that could have ended about four times! Incoming intertextuality (?) with Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, The Fast and the Furious, James Bond, and Disney.
May 10, 2024•30 min•Ep. 94
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