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!
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Stoics Finally Come to This: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 71)
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Licensed to Ille: Children’s Books in Latin (Ad Navseam, Episode 69)
Married with Classicists (Ad Navseam, Episode 68)
Rock Those Socks!: Stocking Stuffers for the Classically Oriented (Ad Navseam, Episode 67)
Growing Up Classical: A Conversation with Jillian Noe (Ad Navseam, Episode 66)
I Want My Mummy!: the Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (Ad Navseam, Episode 65)
How to be a Latin Guru, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 64)
How to be a Latin Guru, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 63)
There’s No Place Like Dome: Neoclassicism and the Architecture of Washington D.C. (Ad Navseam, Episode 62)
Sedimental Journeys: Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 61)
“Just Ghosts To Show Ya” - Halloween Special (Ad Navseam, Episode 60)
“That’s the Power of Love: Two Ovidian Vignettes” (Ad Navseam, Episode 59)
The Jung and the Restless: Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey (Ad Navseam, Episode 58)
The Abiding Value of the Liberal Arts - A Conversation with Heather Mac Donald (Ad Navseam, Episode 57)
Pay no Attention to the Girl behind the Curtain - The Delphic Oracle (Ad Navseam, Episode 56)
Whatsa Motto with You?! - Latin Mottoes of the US States (Ad Navseam, Episode 55)
“Up and Atoms!”: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part IV (Ad Navseam, Episode 54)
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