This week the guys welcome back good friend, former colleague, and two-time Newberry Medal honoree, young-adult writer Gary Schmidt. How did Jeff and Dave manage that? Well we invited him in, and just like that he accepted our invitation. He found the studio comfortable, or at least okay for now, but the conversation was more than a little bit super. We focused on his 2023 novel The Labors of Hercules Beal, a rip-roaring adaptation of the strongman's 12 tasks, with cats, coyotes, a katabasis, a sculpted hippo, and more. Like so much of Gary's work, it is a beautiful tragicomedy, blending moments of hilarity with unvarnished reflection on suffering. So, pay attention, Carter Jones (and everyone else), and stay out of trouble. And for our younger listeners, from the first boy to the last girl, regardless of what planet you orbit, this one is a can't-miss!
Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 128)
Do the Rite Thing: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 127)
No Pain, No Grain: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 126)
Whoa, Milo, Come on, Come On, Let’s Go: The Greatest Ancient Athlete (Ad Navseam, Episode 125)
Use Your Allusion II: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 124)
Gildy as Charged: Arachne and Midas in two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 123)
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Margolit Fox (Ad Navseam, Episode 122)
Loading the Canons: The Art of Classical Rhetoric (Ad Navseam, Episode 121)
Here Comes the Rage Again: Aeneid XII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 120)
Duel Unto Others: Aeneid XII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 119)
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature II (Ad Navseam, Episode 118)
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature I (Ad Navseam, Episode 117)
A Thrilla with Camilla: Aeneid XI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 116)
With Pallas toward None: Aeneid XI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 115)
Male Pattern Baldric: Aeneid X, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 114)
All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113)
Translating Samuel Rutherford’s Examen Arminianismi (Ad Navseam, Episode 112)
Turnus Loose: War in Aeneid IX, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 111)
A Night to Dismember: The Tragedy of Nisus and Euryalus in Aeneid IX, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 110)
Signed, Shield, Delivered: Aeneas becomes Achilles in Aeneid Book VIII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 109)
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