LIT AF
Episodes
Season 2 Episode 10 / A Study In Empathy
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The creature tells Frankenstein its tale. There are three levels of empathy in this chapter. First, Frankenstein listens and imagines what it's l...
Season 2 Episode 9/ More Awesome Than Bigfoot
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Viktor Frankenstein goes for a walk in nature. He's trying to clear his head, to get back in touch with the amazingness of everything that surrou...
Season 2 Episode 8/ Shock & Awe
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Viktor is tormented by the idea that his monster killed his little brother and a beloved, innocent woman was falsely accused, wrongly convicted, and e...
Season 2 Episode 7/ The Trial of Justine
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justine. JUSTine. What's in a name? Innocence in the eyes of Viktor Frankenstein and his sister Elizabeth. But will the court agree? And what of ...
Season 2 Episode 6/ MURDER
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the inciting incident of inciting incidents: MURDER. Viktor's little brother William is dead. We don't know who didn't, but t...
Season 2 Episode 5/ My Baby She Wrote Me A Letter
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, authors moved plots long without chases or explosions or orgasms. Now, I'm the last person to speak out against a good chase or...
LIT AF / The Riff 003: That's What I'm Talking About
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the LIT AF Riff. The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on wha...
LIT AF / The Riff 004: Honestly
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the LIT AF Riff. The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on wha...
LIT AF/The Riff002: The Only Food You'll Ever Need
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the LIT AF Riff. The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts on wha...
LIT AF/ The Riff: What's Your Story?
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the first LIT AF Riff! The Riffs are shorter episodes of LIT AF – no novels or interviews here, just my unfiltered, unrehearsed thoughts o...
LIT AF Season 5 Episode 4/ The Bell You Can't Unring: Chapter 2 of The Picture of Dorian Gray
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You can't go back in time. And you can't unhear someone telling you that you can get more of anything – except the last few minutes of you...
LIT AF Season 5 Episode 3/ Step Into My Studio: Chapter 1 of The Picture of Dorian Gray
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When does art reveal the artist? When is art too personal to share? What's the deal with Basil and Dorian Gray, why is Lord Henry Wotten so nosy,...
LIT AF Season 5 Episode 2/ All Art Is Useless: Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar ends the preface by writing, "All art is useless." Really? Was he being coy in response to his critics? Was he being defiant in puttin...
LIT AF Season 5 Episode 1/ Forever Young: Intro to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's cancel culture has nothing on Victorian England. That didn't stop Oscar Wilde from publishing THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, complete w...
LIT AF Season 4 Episode 5: A Christmas Carol/ The End of It
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To quote Jim Morrison: "This is the end, beautiful friends..." You may think Charles Dickens and Jim Morrison were very different. You may ...
LIT AF Season 4 Episode 4: A Christmas Carol/ The Last of the Spirits
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you think your future is just going to happen to you no matter what you do, then you may as well listen to this podcast episode. If you think your...
LIT AF Season 4 Episode 3: A Christmas Carol/ The Second of the Three Spirits
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ugh. I can just see the embroidered pillows: "Right now is a gift, that's why they call it the present."But in this moment you are maki...
LIT AF Season 4 Episode 2: A Christmas Carol/ The First of the Three Spirits
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you're not haunted by your past, you're not paying attention.
LIT AF Season 4 Episode 1: A Christmas Carol/ Marley's Ghost
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When your dead best friend shows up to warn you, best give him both ears.Bonus: Did you know Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in ju...
Season 2 Episode 4: Success Makes Victor Sick
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Victor gets all the body parts he needs to build a monster. Sometimes success isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Season 2 Episode 3: My Family, My Friends, My Teachers
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode our narrator Viktor Frankenstein walks us through the moments in which he left home and began school. People dying of disease at home,...
Season 2 Episode 2: Nothing Says Authenticity Like a Letter
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Shelley opens Frankenstein with a series of letters from Captain Walton to his sister, telling of his expedition to the north pole and the strang...
Season 2 Episode 1: How Mary Shelley Turned Science Into Frankenstein
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of weird going around. As Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." That's what Mar...
LIT AF Special Edition: Oration of Fredrick Douglass on Fourth of July
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Independence Day? Nope. Nation of freedom, equality, righteousness, and Christianity? Nope. I've read this speech every year for 30 years, and it...
It's All Over: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 10
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gatsby is dead and no one is coming to his last party. All that's left for us is to figure out where we belong, and whether we are living in the ...
Fall Is When Things Die: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 9
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most of THE GREAT GATSBY is timeless. Love and the nutty things we do for love happens in/to every generation. It has for centuries, and it will until...
Baby You Can Drive My Car: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 8
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daisy said she never loved Tom. But then she said she did. Tom says he loves Daisy. But he was diddling Mrs. Wilson. Gatsby does seem to really love D...
Groundhog Gatsby: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 7
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" We all think back on moments that are lost to hist...
Better Pearls, Better Swine: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 6
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are now over the halfway point of the book. It's worth remembering how most people encounter Gatsby the first time. However amazing they may b...
You Don't Know Me: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 5
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 4 begins with young ladies making wild guesses about Gatsby. He's a killer. He's second cousin to the devil. When we don't have...
I Am Because We Are: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 4
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people talk about Gatsby's parties, and how he used them to lure Daisy - but there is more to partying than meets the eye. What attracts us ...
Have What You Want / Want What You Have: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 3
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did school teach you to achieve your goals, or just keep setting new ones to make yourself constructively miserable? Philosophers, drug dealers, and l...
The New Guy In Town: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 2
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the new guy in town. Narrator Nick Carraway introduces us to Tom, Daisy, and the man himself in Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby.
A Masterpiece for Badasses: LIT AF Season 1 Episode 1
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people describe THE GREAT GATSBY as boring and overrated. They're wrong.But it does take some life experience and an intimate familiarity w...
LIT AF Introduction Episode 0
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You've arrived at Ground Zero for the LIT AF podcast.Classics works of literature are classics because they tattoo your heart. The writers who ar...