Welcome back to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits flow all year long!
For this very late Spooky Season Lit for Christmas party, Amanda and Marty polish off a couple bottles of cheap white wine and talk about James Joyce's Christmas novella "The Dead." Get ready for some talk about funerals, family, and drunken stream-of-consciousness.
BONUS POINTS: Count how many times the phrase "Swiss piss" appears in this episode!
RECIPE FOR WHITE WINE:
Ingredients:
Whatever's cheap and sweet!
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, alsoon Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
Other music in the episode:
"Dead Man's Party." Oingo Boingo. Sunset Sound Factory, October 1985.
This month's Christmas lit:
Joyce, James. "The Dead." Dubliners. Penguin Classics, 1993.
