The Yak Babies Book Podcast
Canon or Cannon
Episodes
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
144- Canon or Cannon: George Orwell's 1984
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Canon is Cannon. The pals discuss George Orwell's 1984 and whether it's as important as everyone who hasn't read it says it is.
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
120- Canon or Cannon: August Wilson's Fences
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
The pals load another classic into the cannon. Will Fences be shot into the sea or returned to the canon?
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
114- Canon or Cannon: William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Introducing our new series Canon or Cannon, in which the pals read and discuss notable works from the Western Canon, particularly those typically assigned in high school, and determine whether they should continue in their relevance or be shot from a cannon into the sea.
For our first installment, we read William Golding's 1954 child-murder classic Lord of the Flies.