| Name | First Aired | Runtime | Image | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S02E01 | The Case for Fan Fiction |
February 27, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
11 | |
| S02E02 | Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters |
March 19, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
10 | |
| S02E03 | How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing |
April 29, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
12 | |
| S02E04 | Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later |
May 27, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
10 | |
| S02E05 | The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic? |
June 24, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
15 | |
| S02E06 | The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien |
July 16, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
14 | |
| S02E07 | War and Peace and Everything Else |
August 7, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
13 | |
| S02E08 | The It’s Lit! Musical Episode |
August 27, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
14 | |
| S02E09 | The Fiery History of Banned Books |
September 21, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
15 | |
| S02E10 | The (Stephen) King of Horror |
November 5, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
9 | |
| S02E11 | Are Graphic Novels... Novels? |
November 25, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
10 | |
| S02E12 | Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever? |
December 17, 2020
PBS Digital Studios
|
14 | |
| S02E13 | Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters |
January 6, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
10 | |
| S02E14 | Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance |
February 26, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
15 | |
| S02E15 | How Do You Write a Bestseller? |
March 18, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
13 | |
| S02E16 | Unraveling the Myth of Ernest Hemingway |
March 31, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
13 | |
| S02E17 | What's in a (Pen) Name? |
April 21, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
15 | |
| S02E18 | How Manga Took Over American Bookshelves |
May 12, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
15 | |
| S02E19 | Jane Eyre: Why We Keep Reading It |
June 17, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
18 | |
| S02E20 | Octavia Butler, The Grand Dame of Science Fiction |
June 29, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
15 | |
| S02E21 | The Unappreciated Female Writers Who Invented the Novel |
July 14, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
12 | |
| S02E22 | Don’t Know Much About BEOWULF? Nobody Does! |
August 6, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
13 | |
| S02E23 | To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird? |
August 25, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
13 | |
| S02E24 | Why Do People Think Huck Finn Is Racist? |
September 23, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
14 | |
| S02E25 | What You Don’t Know About The Father of Sci-Fi |
October 26, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
18 | |
| S02E26 |
Why We Keep Retelling the Classics
season finale
|
November 17, 2021
PBS Digital Studios
|
13 |
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