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October 08, 2015Episode 15: Books We Read in High School
This episode, we take a trip back to our awkward high-school years to discuss what we read, what we didn't, and what stuck with us.
Plus, quick thoughts on Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora and Nicole Kornher-Stace's Archivist Wasp.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 16:00: What We're Reading
16:00 – 1:20:00: Books We Read in High School
What Emily's Reading:
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Faiths and Furies by Lauren Groff
What Kyle's Reading:
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel
We also discussed classic books that were probably on your high-school reading list.
What did you read in high school? What books or teachers did you love or loathe? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC.
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1h 20min
September 08, 2015Episode Fourteen: Bill Bryson
This episode, we take a closer look at the bibliography of the amiable travel, science, and memoir writer Bill Bryson.
Plus, our quick thoughts on China Mieville, The Devil in the White City, and pop history vs. scholarly history.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 10:00: What We're Reading
10:00 – 53:00: Bill Bryson
What Emily's Reading:
Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville
The Devil and the White City by Eric Larsen
What Kyle's Reading:
Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the 50s by Antonin Kapscia
Bill Bryson Books We Discuss:
The Lost Continent
Notes from a Small Island
In a Sunburned Country
A Walk in the Woods
I'm A Stranger Here Myself
A Short History of Nearly Everything
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
One Summer: America 1927
Other Works Mentioned:
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Gulp by Mary Roach
The Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
We love hearing from readers! Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC.
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54min
August 13, 2015Episode Thirteen: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
This episode, we take a hopefully-not-too-grim look at the genre of post-apocalyptic fiction. Emily wonders why the genre attracts so many hyper-masculine writers and Kyle talks about one of his favorite and one of his least favorite novels.
No spoilers to speak of in this episode.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 9:00: What We're Reading
9:00 – 1:00:00: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
What Emily's Reading:
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Incorruptables by John Horner Jacobs
What Kyle's Reading:
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Other Works Mentioned:
"Sleep Donation" by Karen Russell
"Black Moon" by Kenneth Calhoun
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
California by Edan Lepucky
The Stand by Stephen King
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
Do you love or hate to read about the end of the world? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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July 21, 2015Episode Twelve: The Martian
This episode, we take a close look at Andy Weir's hard sci-fi novel The Martian and discuss its unusual publication history, its narrative structure, and how effective we thought the book turned out to be.
Plus, Emily's been on a horror kick and Kyle's been hate-watching True Detective, so he decided to pick up Nic Pizzolatto's debut novel.
Warning: This episode contains some coarse language. Maybe don't listen with the kids around.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 15:00: What We're Reading
13:00 – 45:00: The Martian by Andy Weir
What Emily's Reading:
The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares, edited by Jason Blum
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
What Kyle's Reading:
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
Are you an avid eBook or audiobook fanatic? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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46min
July 06, 2015Episode Eleven: eBooks & Audiobooks
This episode, we're talking about the alternative book formats: eBooks and audiobooks. We talk about our habits with each, our favorite examples of each medium, and what might be stopping these alternative formats from reaching their full potential.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 5:00: What We're Reading
5:00 – 55:00: eBooks & Audiobooks
What Emily's Reading:
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
What Kyle's Reading:
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
Are you an avid eBook or audiobook fanatic? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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June 16, 2015Episode Ten: Adaptations
Welcome back to Portable Magic! In this episode, we're talking about adaptations – good and bad. In the mix are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Princess Bride, The Great Gatsby, Game of Thrones, and many more.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 10:00: What We're Reading
10:00 – 1:00:00: Adaptations
What Emily's Reading:
The Deadlands by Benjamin Percy
What Kyle's Reading:
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
Which adaptations have burned you in the past? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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1h 2min
May 01, 2015Episode Nine: Short Stories
We forgot to introduce ourselves this week! If you're new to the show, Portable Magic is hosted by Emily Hughes and Kyle Deas.
This episode, we take a look at short stories – our favorites, the classics, and the magic and the art behind them. Emily makes the argument that we're living in the golden age of the short story collection and Kyle wonders what happened to all the magazines that used to publish short fiction.
Plus, we talk about Jon Krakauer's Missoula and a new, extended interview with Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 13:00: What We're Reading
13:00 – 1:05:00: Short Stories
What Emily's Reading:
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser
What Kyle's Reading:
Exploring Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Short Stories / Collections We Discuss:
Stories:
"The Bad Graft" by Karen Russell
"Tenth of December" by George Saunders
"They're Made of Meat" by Terry Bisson
"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
"John, For Christmas" by Ethan Rutherford
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever
Collections:
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
The Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford
Jaganath by Karin Tidbeck
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
What's your favorite short story collection? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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1h 4min
April 02, 2015Episode Eight: Horror Fiction
This episode, Kyle and Emily take a close look at horror fiction – why we read it, how it scares us, and what our favorite horror novels are. Kyle tells us what his pick is for the scariest Stephen King book and Emily talks about the books that got her into horror in the first place.
Plus, Emily follows up on her impressions of Beautiful Darkness, Kyle's pick for A Gift For A Child You Hate from Episode 2!
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 7:00: What We're Reading
7:00 – 1:05:00: Horror Fiction
What Emily's Reading:
After Birth by Elisa Albert
What Kyle's Reading:
Wodehouse on Crime by P.G. Wodehouse
Horror Fiction that We Discuss:
Short Stories / Essays:
"Skeleton" by Ray Bradbury, from October Country (Click on "Readable PDF")
"Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft
"I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
Novels:
Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann
Zone 1 by Coulson Whitehead
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Shining by Stephen King
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Birdbox by Josh Malerman
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
What's your favorite horror novel? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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1h 7min
March 19, 2015Episode Seven: Literary Fanfiction
This episode, Kyle and Emily talk about "literary fanfiction": the sub-genre of books by established authors that inhabit the world of older works of literature. We couldn't find a good term to refer to these sorts of books, but think of works like Ahab's Wife or Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead.
Plus, they talk about the Suvudu cage match and the challenges of writing fanfiction.
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 14:00: What We're Reading
14:00 – 35:00: Suvudu Cage Match
35:00 - 1:00:00: "Literary Fanfiction"
What Emily's Reading:
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
What Kyle's Reading:
Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
The Bullseye Interview with Nick Hornby
Other Works that We Discuss:
For all the cage-match books and characters we discussed, please refer to Suvudu's web site. And here's a link to the cage match post that Kyle wrote.
Ahab's Wife by Sena Naslud
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Q-Squared by Peter David
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
What's your favorite example of "literary fanfiction"? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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1h
February 27, 2015Episode Six: In the Woods
This episode, Kyle and Emily devote the whole show to discussing Tana French's debut novel In the Woods.
The discussion prior to 26 minutes or so is spoiler-free, so if you're interested in the book but haven't read it, feel free to listen that far. After that point, though, spoilers abound!
Episode Breakdown:
0:00 – 4:30: What We're Reading
4:30 – 26:00: In the Woods (spoiler-free)
26:00 - 1:05:00: In The Woods (spoilers!)
What Emily's Reading:
Mystery book!
What Kyle's Reading:
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in Modern China by Evan Osnos
Other Works that We Discuss:
In the Woods by Tana French
The Likeness by Tana French
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buying books at Powell's by using these affiliate links helps support the show!
Are you a huge Tana French fan? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet us @PortableMagicPC!
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1h 8min

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