It's episode 237 and time for us to talk about Post-Apocalyptic Fiction! We discuss the apocalypse, the post-apocalypse, the post-post-apocalypse, androids, dystopias, breaking into people's houses, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Fireman by Joe Hill
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• The Ragpicker by Joel Dane
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, vol. 1 by Hitoshi Ashinano
• Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, narrated by Julienne Irons

Other Media We Mentioned

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Moon of Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
• Scorpio by Marko Kloos
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
• Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhouse
• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
  • Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted
• Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
  • No TV series, but there were several movies
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
• Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
• Silo (TV series)
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Earthdivers by Stephen Graham Jones, Davide Gianfelice, and others
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  • Episode 083 - The Fifth Season

Links, Articles, and Things

• Libro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program
• 'We've Already Survived an Apocalypse': Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi
  • Matthew was wrong, the "We've already survived an apocalypse" quote is from Rebecca Roanhorse
• Waffle House Training - Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method
  • Not Denny's!

20 Post Apocalyptic Novels by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki
• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
• Zulus by Percival Everett
• Trinity Sight by Jennifer Givhan
• The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
• Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
• Severance by Ling Ma
• The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Not With a Bang by Temi Oh
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• This is the Year by Gloria Munoz
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Metatron's Children by Chy Ryan Spain
• Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 6th when we discuss Cosmic Horror!

Then on Tuesday, October 20th we'll be talking about The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett.

It's episode 236 and time for our summer media update! Join us as we talk about books, games, and comics we've recently enjoyed.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Matthew
  • Mister Invincible by Pascal Jousselin
  • The Jellyfish by Boum
  • How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America edited by Lee Child and Laurie R. King
• Meghan
  • Read Weird
    • Open Wide by Jessica Gross
    • Devil House by John Darnielle
    • Pour un paquet de Player's by Daniel Grenier
  • Meghan Tries to Read a Series
    • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
    • Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines series) by Marko Kloos
    • The Greatcoats by Sebastien de Castell
  • NonFiction standouts
    • Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephan King by Caroline Bicks
    • Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo
    • A Truce is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
• Jam
  • A Small Change by Rae-Hyeon Kim
  • Cain Culto
    • Chismosa (w Jarina De Marco)
    • BASTA YA (w Xiuhtezcatl and Snow Tha Product)
    • a plague, a pestilence
    • BIMBAMBAU
  • Jam's May/June/July playlist and spreadsheet
  • Cannon by Lee Lai
• Anna
  • Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!
  • Curious Archive
    • The Most Powerful Type of Worldbuilding (Moldy Worldbuiding)
  • Coriander Noodles Spicy Beef Flavor Soup Base

Other Media We Mentioned

• Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
• Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
• Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
  • "About an hour later, once it became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed, it was clear that there wasn't anything to do except to redirect the domain directly to him and kill any plans I had to launch an iOS app for the project."
• The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood
• Mercy Thompson (series) by Patricia Briggs
• Alpha and Omega (series) by Patricia Briggs
• The "tandem read" books by Sarah J. Maas are Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn. There are some horrifying reading guides to these. Apparently the author doesn't recommend doing this!
• Gender Reveal podcast
  • The Lee Lai episode is "bonus content" but you can download the trasncript

Links, Articles, and Things

• Forest of (Multiple Nouns)
• Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
• Episode 167 - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report
• Boiling point of water with elevation

15 Arts Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
• Imperfect Solidarities by Aruna D'Souza
• Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man by C.E. Gatchalian
• Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing edited by Dion Kaszas
• The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin
• A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
• Graphic Design Rules: Hints and Tips to Improve Your Designs by Chen Meihuan
• Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity by Gerald McMaster
• Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente
• Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution by De Nichols, illustration by Diana Dagadita, Olivia Twist, Molly Mendoza, Saddo, and Diego Becas
• I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin Painter
• Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• The Best of Roy Henry Vickers: 80 Selected Works by Roy Henry Vickers
• 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei
• Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade by Winnie Won Yin Wong

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 1st we'll be discussing Post Apocalyptic fiction! (As suggested by nikkinaboo.)

Then on Tuesday, October 6th we'll be talking about Cosmic horror! (As suggested by soitgoes4two.)

It's episode 235 and time for us to talk about Celebrity Memoirs! We discuss who counts as a celebrity, non-celebrity memoirs, creative non-fiction, memory, success, survivorship bias, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate
• Elsa Lanchester, Herself by Elsa Lanchester
• Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
• My Wonderful World Of Slapstick by Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels
• Finding Me by Viola Davis

Other Media We Mentioned

• Lessons from a Lifetime: 90 Years of Imagination and Activism by David Suzuki
• Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
• Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur
• Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• iCarly
• Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Married... with Children
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Pandora's Box
• Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
• Sherlock Jr.
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
• Awake by Jen Hatmaker
• A Truce That is not Peace by Miriam Toews
• The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You by Neko Case
• That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers

Links, Articles, and Things

• Department Store
• Hudson's Bay (department store)
• Hypermarket
• MeToo movement
• Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang Book Trailer
• Gilean Douglas Fonds
  • Collection of digitized photos including ones from the sets of One Stolen Night, The Fortieth Door, Rupert of Hentzau, Quincy Adams Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, and this specific Hall Room Boys film.
• Charlie Chaplin
• Tom Mix
• Laurel and Hardy
• Abbott and Costello
• Groucho Glasses
• Hays Code

33 Celebrity Memoirs by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo
• Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles
• She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
• A Thousand Threads by Nehneh Cherry
• Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
• Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu
• Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung
• Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
• Transcendent by Laverne Cox
• Simply More by Cynthia Erivo
• Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
• In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
• Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish
• We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
• Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Unprotected by Billy Porter
• Some New Kind of Kick by Kid Congo Powers
• Truly by Lionel Richie
• The Universal Tone: My Life by Carlos Santana
• The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya
• A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring by Omar Sharif Jr.
• The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley
• All the Way: My Life on Ice by Jordin Tootoo
• Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood by Danny Trejo
• I, Tina by Tina Turner
• Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
• Sidesplitter: How to Be From Two Worlds at Once by Phil Wang
• Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts
• Scenes from My Life by Michael K. Williams
• Cack-Handed by Gina Yashere
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 18th when we'll be giving our summer media update!

Then on September 1st we'll be discussing Post Apocalyptic fiction!

What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!)

• Anna's Pick - Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic (2025)
• Matthew's Pick - Starter Villain by John Scalzi (2023)
• Jam's Pick - Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (2025)
• Meghan's Pick - The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge (2025)

Listen to Episode 233 - Battle of the Books 2026 to hear what we had to say about each of the books!

It's episode 234 and time for us to talk about Novels in Verse! We discuss rhyme, meter, interiority, whether any of us understand poetry and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!)

• Listen to Episode 233 - Battle of the Books 2026

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears
• Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• The Call-out: A Novel in Rhyme by Cat Fitzpatrick
• Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
• The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
• Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated by Eliot Weinberger
• We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
• Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen
• Beowulf
• Project Hail Mary (film)
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Aniara (film)
• Aniara: A Revue of Man in Time and Space by Harry Martinson
  • There are two different English translations!

Links, Articles, and Things

• Metre (poetry)
• Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry
• Concrete poetry
• Iambic pentameter
• We should be excited that spoken word is reinventing literature
• Selena
• Tejano music
• Epistolary novel
• List of countries by tertiary education attainment
• Stacey Kade (S. A. Barnes)
• Tommy Pico

17 Novels in Verse by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• The Fragments That Remain by MacKenzie Angeconeb
• Eureka by Victoria Chang
• The Last One by Fatima Daas, translated by Lara Vergnaud
• The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
• Syncopation by Whitney French
• King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin
• Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
• Dreaming of You by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• Here Comes the Dogs by Omar Musa
• The Perfect Nine: the Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
• Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds with artwork by Jason Griffin
• Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
• Death's Country by R. M. Romero
• Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 4th when we'll be talking about the genre of Celebrity Memoirs as suggested by Kjs4658

Then on August 18th, we'll be giving our summer media update.

It's episode 233 and time for Battle of the Books 2026! Which book will we all read and discuss? You decide!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!)

• Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic (2025)
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi (2023)
• Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (2025)
• The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge (2025)

Runners Up

• Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith (2024)
• How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva (2024)
• The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (2018)
• Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas (2024)
• How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva (2026)
• Cannon by Lee Lai (2025)
• Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky (2023)
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz (1995/1998)
• Stoner by John Williams (1965)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara
• Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
• How to Read Now: Essays by Elaine Castillo
• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
• Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
• How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America edited by Lee Child and Laurie R. King
• Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
• 007 First Light
• You Only Live Twice
• Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 215 - Battle of the Books 2025
• Episode 220 - How Far the Light Reaches
• Volcano Lair (TVTropes)
• Vancouver SkyTrain
• Matthew's favourite Vancouver SkyTrain update YouTube channel

15 Adventure Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• So Wild a Dream by Win Blevins
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• God's Country by Percival Everett
• Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
• Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo
• Escape from Baghdad by Saad Z. Hossain
• A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
• Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Barren Grounds by David Robertson
• Travelers Along the Way: a Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi
• Stranded by Nikki Shannon Smith
• The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 7th when we'll be talking about Novels in Verse!

Then on Tuesday, August 4th we're discussing Celebrity Memoirs! (As suggested by Kjs4658.)

It's episode 232 and time for us to talk about coming of (old) age!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
• Real Estate by Deborah Levy
• Becoming Crone by Lydia M. Hawke
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Correspondent by Virgina Evans
• Shadow Life written by Hiromi Goto, illustrated by Ann Xu

Other Media We Mentioned

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
• The Witches Discworld books by Terry Pratchett
• Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye written by Gerard Way and Jon Rivera, art by Michael Avon Oeming
• Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang
• Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
• What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives, by Bruce Grierson
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Links, Articles, and Things

• Irene Adler
• Library of things
• Commercial Drive
• Gavel
• UBC University Mace
• UBC Macebearer

10 Coming of (Old) Age by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
• Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis
• Mr Katō Plays Family by Milena Michiko Flašar, translated by Caroline Froh
• Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto, illustrated by Ann Xu
• The Unbroken Coast by Nalini Jones
• Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
• In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 16th, when we'll each be pitching a book we think we should all read and you get to vote on which!

Then on Tuesday, July 7th we'll be talking about Novels in Verse!

It's episode 231 and time for us to talk about Sapphic Horror! We discuss which monster is the most sapphic, unrealistic reality TV shows, and how queer a book has to be to count as sapphic.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
• The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey
• Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
• Night's Edge by Liz Kerin, read by Chase Sui Wonders
• Extasia by Claire Legrand
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
• Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
• Moonflow by Bitter Karella
• This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
• The Scourge Between the Stars by Ness Brown
• The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png

Other Media We Mentioned

• Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire edited by Amber Dawn
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
• When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll
• Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (contains Carmilla)
• Why was I invited to Beast Studios? by Folding Ideas
• Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review by Folding Ideas
• Killing Eve

18 Sapphic Horror by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
• The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
• Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
• A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui
• Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
• But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
• The Salvage by Anbara Salam
• The Plans I Have for You by Lai Sanders
• On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
• We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado
• She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we'll be talking about "Coming of (old) age," suggested to us by Meghan's mom.

Then on Tuesday, June 16th, we'll each be pitching a book we think we should all read and you get to vote on which!

It's episode 230 and time for us to talk about media we've been enjoying! We discuss music, video essays, movies, comics, books, crafts, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We're Enjoying:

• Matthew
  • The Music Video Is Dead, Long Live The Music Video by Patrick (H) Willems
  • Hobtown Mystery Stories, vol. 2: The Cursed Hermit by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, colour by Jason Fischer-Kouhi
  • Witchy Stitching: 25 Patterns to Haunt Your Home by Meg Black
    • The Witchy Stitcher
• Meghan
  • KEXP
    • "Me more cowboy than you" by the Brudi Brothers
    • Glass Beams (full set)
    • Angine de Poitrine (full set)
      • The kerfuffle Meghan mentioned
    • Live on KEXP podcast
  • Live music at local venues
  • Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
• Jam
  • New music highlights (YouTube playlist):
    • The Apple Tree Under the Sea by Hemlocke Springs
    • Nothing's About to Happen to Me by Mitski
    • "23" by Lime Garden
    • "Bend Your Knees" by Henry Mansfield
    • "ça pik un peu quand même" by Miki
  • Jam's full Jan-Feb 2026 New Music Playlist
    • (spreadsheet will be shared in our Discord)
  • Hundreds of Beavers (2022 movie)
  • Raspberry and almond sourdough cake
    • Based on the "Cherry and Almond Bake" recipe from 10-Minute Sourdough by Vanessa Kimbell
• Anna
  • Twinkleby
  • Nicole Rudolph
    • Who Cursed us with Popcorn Ceilings?
    • The Myth of a Clean Home
    • They're selling us AI floor plans (with @AbbyCox )
    • TMFD Alum Spotlight: Nicole Rudolph, Fashion Historian
  • Webtoons
    • Love is Loading (mature) by 97pieces
    • Love is Loading (all ages)
    • Our Sunny Days by Jeong Seokchan
    • Our Sunny Days, vol. 1

Other Media We Mentioned

• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• Childish Gambino - This is America
• Beyoncé - Formation
• Lambrini Girls on KEXP
• triple j - Like a Version playlist
• Jam's music podcast
• The Apothecary Diaries

Links, Articles, and Things

• Artemis II
• Beyoncé explains why she stopped making music videos
• YouTube Ditches the Billboard Charts

15 Non-Fiction Books about Psychology by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Patterns That Remain: a Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants by Stacey Diane Arañez Litam
• Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué
• Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being by Yuria Celidwen
• Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho
• What My Bones Know: a Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
• The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez
• Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone by Khameer Kidia
• But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli
• How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes From a Frustrated Black Psychologist by Johnathan Mathias Lassiter
• Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan
• Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life by Shigehiro Oishi
• Autistic and Black: Our Experiences of Growth, Progress and Empowerment by Kala Allen Omeiza
• Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
• All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety by David A. Robertson
• Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans by Jenny T. Wang

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It's episode 229 and time for us to talk about Media Criticism. We talk about what counts as media, the challenges of writing about emerging forms of media, how we interact with criticism, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt
• Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk
• Marvel Age of Comics: Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic by Stuart Moore, narrated by Jason Lasky
• Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado
• Culture Creep: Notes on a Pop Apocalypse by Alice Bolin
• Pop Classics #15: Ugh, as if!: Clueless by Veronica Litt
• Selected Amazon Reviews by Kevin Killian
• We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson
• The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
• Why I love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature edited by Becky Siegel Spratford
• Bad Indian Bookclub: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec

Other Media We Mentioned

• Parasite Eve
• Clever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregor
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• 33 ⅓
• The Importance Of Being Earnest | Official Trailer | National Theatre Live
• Lady Sings the Blues
• Video Essayists Answer Your Assumptions (with hbomberguy‬, ‪D'Angelo Wallace, and Mina Le, ft. Spencer Agnew)

Our Favourite Video Essayists/Reviewers/Reviews

• Action Button
• Amanda the Jedi
• Any Austin
• Dungeon Chill
• Every Frame a Painting
• Folding Ideas
• I Finished a Video Game
• Jacob Gellar
• Jenna Stoeber
• Jenny Nicholson
• hbomberguy
• Lindsay Ellis
• Matt McMuscles: The Worst Fighting Game
• Matty Bites
• Princess Weekes
• ReRez: Just Bad Games
• Ryan Hollinger
• Super Eyepatch Wolf
• T1J
• Todd in the Shadows
• The WWE's complex "Black" history by F.D Signifier
• Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List | Part 1: Re-ranking the Top 20 by Innuendo Studios and Questing Refuge
• Jam's list of top 10 video essays about media I've never seen

Links, Articles, and Things

• The Times Literary Supplement
• Bubbles Zine
• The Comics Staple
• Libro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program

20 Media Criticism Books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander
• We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson
• The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
• Black Music by Amiri Baraka
• The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt
• New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto
• Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle
• Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television From Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond by Bethonie Butler
• Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey
• Original People, Original Television: The Launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network by Jennifer David
• Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Video Games are Changing Our World by Marijam Did
• Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by Karen Han
• Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris
• Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood
• The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima
• Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals by Julia Lee
• Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship by Lori Kido Lopez
• The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema From Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris
• Music Is History by Questlove

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media update!

Then on Tuesday, May 5th, we'll be talking about Sapphic horror (as suggested by tmauch)