Episode 71 - The Catcher in the Rye

17/09/2025 1h 14min Temporada 6 Episodio 71
Episode 71 - The Catcher in the Rye

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-first episode, we look at a controversial text of teenage rebellion and grief-trauma that has attracted a LOT of weird loners over the years: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951). In this episode, Daniel takes a big L over David Copperfield, we have Buckfast at Tiffany's, spend a long time discussing Howard Hughes's design of the perfect bra, and realise that this should have been our Christmas episode.Cover art © Catherine Wu.Episode Theme: Larry Wagner, 'Autopsy on Schubert' (1937). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.