It's episode 221 and time for us to talk about Epic & High Fantasy! We talk about maps, magic, monsters, whether Pokémon counts as epic fantasy, and more!

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In this episode

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
• Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist
• Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam
• Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans
• Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Other Media We Mentioned

• Masters of Reality by John Darnielle
• Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffery
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
• The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
• Swords Comic
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce
• Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
• The Old Kingdom by Garth Nix
• The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
• The Will of the Many by James Islington
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
• The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist and others
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Betrayal at Krondor
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Links, Articles, and Things

• List of high fantasy fiction (Wikipedia)

20 Epic & High Fantasy 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.

• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
• A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair
• Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
• The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu
• The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
• The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai
• The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
• Liar's Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina
• Seventhblade by Tonia Laird
• Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
• The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
• Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 2nd when we'll be talking about Books from the 1980s.

Then on Tuesday, December 16th we'll be talking about our favourite books of 2025!

It's episode 220 and time for us to talk about the winner of our One Book One Podcast / Battle of the Books: How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler! We discuss content warnings, anthropomorphising sea critters, our relationships with the ocean, salps, goldfish, whales, octopus, crabs, 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…)

• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
• My Life in Sea Creatures: What the Ocean's Animals can Teach us About Ourselves
• My Life in Sea Creatures: A young queer science writer's reflections on identity and the ocean
  • I can't actually find any edition of the book with this on the cover, though it's frequently listed as the subtitle on various book websites. I have no idea why there are different titles.

Other Media We Mentioned

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Fear of Big Things Underwater by Jacob Geller
• How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 215 - Battle of the Books 2025
• Gender Reveal Episode 136: Sabrina Imbler
• Sabrina Imbler on Defector
• Sharks Aren't Fish by Hank Green
• Noisestorm - Crab Rave
• Ghost Ship warehouse fire
• Pulse nightclub shooting
• Sci-Hub

11 Steampunk 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.

• To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
• Clockwork Curandera Vol 1: The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles, Raúl The Third, Stacey Robinson, and Damian Duffy
• Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus
• Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen
• The Black God's Drums by P. Djélí Clark
• The SEA is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng
• Rebel Skies by Ann Sei Lin
• A Magic Fierce and Bright by Hemant Nayak
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• NewsPrints by Ru Xu
• City of Secrets by Victoria Ying

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 4th when we'll be talking about the genre of Epic and High Fantasy!

Then on Tuesday, December 2nd we'll be reading books from the 1980s!

It's episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it's possible to not read vampire stories, how much blood is too much blood, vegetarian vampires, books that mysteriously show up on our holds lists, 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…)

• Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
• The Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle
• Jam's review on Storygraph
• Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin
• Ex.Mag, vol. 05: Bloodsucker
• Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve
• Meghan's books
  • Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (498pg)
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (336pg)
  • Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (767pg)
  • The Informers by Brett Easton Ellis (240pg)
  • Quicksilver by Callie Hart (624pg)
  • The Passage by Justin Cronin (784pg)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe and James Howe
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• Murphy Brown
• Count Duckula
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Silver, vol. 1 by Stephan Franck
• Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
• The Lost Boys
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica, vol. 1 by Amy Chu and Maria Laura Sanapo
• Leviathan by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli
• The Last Express
  • Murder On The Rotoscoped Express | The Last Express by Dungeon Chill
• Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
• Not A Drop To Drink - Session 0 - Vancouver Island By Night || Dice Friends
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness) (Icelandic "translation" of Dracula)
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Links, Articles, and Things

• Renfrew–Collingwood
• Renfrew station
• Renfield
• The Living and the Dead: Morbius the Living Vampire, the Comics Code, & Marvel Comics' Horror Boom
• Jiangshi
• Count von Count
• Mercy Brown vampire incident
• Vampire Child (TV Tropes)
• War Rocket Ajax Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins
• Vampirella
• Maila Nurmi (Vampira)
• Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)

20 Vampire 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.

• The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood
• Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
• Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen
• The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png
• Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
• Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
• Now Comes the Mist by Julie C. Dao
• A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
• The Vampire Skeleton by Sara General
• Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris
• House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
• A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya
• Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
• The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 21st we'll be discussing How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (or whatever the UK title is).

Then on Tuesday, November 4th we'll be talking about the genre of Epic and High Fantasy!

It's episode 218 and time for us to talk about the Book Club Books! We discuss what counts as a book club, religion, food memoirs, historical fiction, girls loving each other in 1954, the prison industrial complex, and more! Plus, we discuss geographic-specific food we miss!

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…)

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
  • Dua Lipa In Conversation With Michelle Zauner
  • Service95 Book Club: Michelle Zauner On Writing Crying In H Mart
  • Michelle Zauner's Writing Soundtrack For Crying in H Mart
  • South Korean Chef Songsoo Kim's Leek & Daikon Jeon Pancake
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Other Media We Mentioned

• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
• Leech by Hiron Ennes
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
• Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Dua Lipa - Let's Get Physical Work Out
• Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet feat. So!YoON! (Korean Version)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake

Links, Articles, and Things

• Marcel Proust
• How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing reading and their own lives
• Below the Fray: Dua Lipa versus the literary landscape
• Mangasplaining

Foods We Miss

• Del's lemonade
• Clam cake
• Dunkin' Donuts
• Stuffies
• Alaska blueberry ice cream (Okay, that's just a link to the ice cream place in Alaska Anna likes)
• Pickled cheese
• Eggplant parm grinder
• Bánh mì
• Fruiterer
• Buffalo chicken calzone
• Pizza in the United States vs. Pizza in Canada
• Sushi
• Cheese and onion crisps

15 Book Club Books by BIPOC Authors (Being Read This Month)

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.

The books below are being read by book clubs in September 2025, so you can read along with them! The group reading the book is included in parentheses.

• Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Mocha Girls Read)
• Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley (Good Morning America YA Book Club)
• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown (Well-Read Black Girl Book Club)
• Resting Bitch Face: Poems by Taylor Byas (The Audacious Book Club)
• The Trees by Percival Everett (Service95 Book Club)
• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler (Book Club for Masochists)
• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (Subtle Asian Book Club)
• Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! Stories by Melissa Lozada-Olivia (Weird Girl Lit)
• The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Las Comrades and Friends National Latino Book Club)
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Erin & Dani's Book Club/The Indigenous Reading Circle)
• The House of Doors by Twan Eng Tan (Bluestockings Queer Book Club)
• Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P Johnson by Tourmaline (Pep & Hughes Queer History 101 Book Club)
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Read the Rainbow St. Louis)
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Eclectix the Book Club)
• Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (The Adam Silvera Book Club)

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Vampires!

Then on Tuesday, October 21st we'll be discussing How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (or whatever the UK title is).

It's episode 217 and time for our Summer Media Update! We discuss shelf trophies, sumo wrestling, Kpop Demon Hunters, blogs in book form, 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…)

• Jam
  • Bear and Breakfast (video game)
  • Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists (podcast)
    • "The Look" Summer Vacation Special
  • Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads concert film)
• Matthew
  • Sumo Wrestling
    • Blue Whirlwind - A Ukrainian sumo wrestler
    • Sumopedia
    • The places sumo matches happen are "sumo halls"
  • House to Astonish
    • The Lightning Round (Thunderbolts)
    • Daredevil Villains
  • Kpop Demon Hunters
    • Saja Boys - Soda Pop
• Meghan
  • Romantasy and BookTube (Bookhalla)
  • Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series en francais (Les Aventures d'Anita Blake, tueuse de vampire)
  • The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman
• Anna
  • Honey, I Joined a Cult
  • Puzzles
    • Odd Pieces
  • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Media We Mentioned

• Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

Links, Articles, and Things

• LRR Twitch Stream Highlights 2025-08-16
• The pretty books YouTube short
• Chuck E. Cheese

15 True Crime 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.

• Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry
• In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown's Most Powerful Crime Boss by Peter Chin and Everett De Morier
• Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado
• A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story behind the Missing Forty-Three Students by Anabel Hernández
• Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe
• Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae
• Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes by Laci Mosley
• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator), Philip Gabriel (Translator)
• No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference by Cheryl Neely
• Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett by Michael Nest, Deanna Reder, Eric Bell
• Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith
• The Gangs of Zion: a Black cop's Crusade in Mormon Country by Ron Stallworth
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
• Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime by Padma Viswanathan

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Join us on Tuesday, September 2nd we'll be discussing Book Club Books, whatever that means.

Then on Tuesday, October 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Vampires!

It's episode 216 and time for us to talk about the genre of Rural Noir / Grit Lit! We discuss what counts as "rural," whether "coastal noir" is a thing, how intense these stories can be, and more! Plus: Should fiction about Gritty (the mascot) be classified as about a "real person"?

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

Recommend a genre for us to read in 2026!

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
• Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
• The White Girl by Tony Birch

Other Media We Mentioned

• True Grit by Charles Portis
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict
• Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
• Scalped: The Deluxe Edition, Book One, by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra
• Rez Metal (documentary)
• Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale A Zappia
• Revolutions: Welcome to the Martian Revolution

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 049 - Southern Gothic
• List of states and territories of the United States by population density
  • Rhode Island is the 2nd most densely populated state
• Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir
• Casa Bonita
• Gritty (Hockey RPF) on AO3

11 Rural Noir and Grit Lit 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.

• The White Girl by Tony Birch
• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
• Wounded by Percival Everett
• These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
• Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
• Wade in the Water by Nyani Nkrumah
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 19th when it's time for our summer Media update when we'll talk about books, comics, games, music and more!

Then on Tuesday, September 2nd we'll be discussing Book Club Books, whatever that means.

It's episode 215 and time for our annual Battle of the Books! This year we're each pitching a non-fiction book we think we should all read and discuss and then you (our listeners) get to vote on which one! Plus! A chance for a listener to win a book!

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!)

• 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 by Elaine Castillo
• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

Titles from our Short Lists

• Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
• Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn
• I Was a Stripper Librarian: From Cardigans to G-strings by Kristy Cooper
• A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird by Rosemary Mosco
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
• Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
• Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

Links, Articles, and Things

• Review of Mood Machine from Publishers Weekly
• The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's plot against musicians by Liz Pelly
• If Books Could Kill

Previous episodes

• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2018)
• Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? (2019)
• Episode 083 - The Fifth Season
• Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020
• Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021
• Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022
• Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
• Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023
• Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted
• Episode 196 - Battle of the Books 2024: One Book One Podcast
• Episode 202 - A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
• Matthew finally made a category

15 Supernatural Thrillers 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.

• Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal
• Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
• The Good House by Tananarive Due
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
• Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Model Home by Rivers Solomon
• Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias
• The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 5th when we'll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir and Grit Lit!

Then on Tuesday, August 19th when it's time for our summer Media update when we'll talk about books, comics, games, music and more!

It's episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, 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…)

• Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
• Time Machine 2: Search For Dinosaurs and David Bischoff
• Inheritance by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn
  • Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer
• Bats of the Republic by Zachery Thomas Dodson
• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
• Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen

Other Media We Mentioned

• Choose Your Own Adventure
• S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
• Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Frances Burney
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
• A Void/La Disparition by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Detroit: Become Human
  • Talking Simulator — Detroit: Become Human
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  • "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards."
• Wanted: Dead
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
• Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
• Blue Prince
• Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel by Antony Johnston
• The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction
• Oulipo
• Reddit threads
• Books with experimental or unusual formats - multiple illustrations, combination of mediums, alternating structure etc
• Any books with unconventional or creative storytelling formats/structures you'd recommend?
• List of sandwiches
• Architecture student writes 149-page thesis without punctuation

15 Non-Traditional Storytelling 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.

• Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse by Ana Castillo
• Inheritance: A Pick-the-Path Experience by Darrell Dennis, Medina Hahn, and Daniel Arnold
• The Girl I Am, Was, And Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
• The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
• Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds with art by Jason Griffin
• Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq with art by Jaime Hernandez
• Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon with art by Frank Yoon
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
• Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 15th. It's time for our "Battle of the Books!" We'll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read.

Then on Tuesday, August 5th when we'll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir/Grit Lit.

It's episode 213 and time for us to talk about "Found Books," that is books that we've found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps! We discuss the recently returned book cart, getting books for free, getting rid of books, 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…)

• Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
• The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
• What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
• Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet

Other Media We Mentioned

• Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• Returnal
• Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier
• The Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta and Ralph Masiello
• White Dwarf (Warhammer magazine)

Links, Articles, and Things

• #UBCnoox
• Meghan's map
• Public bookcase (Wikipedia)
• Little Free Library (Wikipedia)
• Against Little Free Libraries
• Vegetarian Peanut Soup
• Cottage: North America
• Sudoku (Wikipedia)
• Paper embossing (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 1st when we'll be discussing the genre/format of Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. not prose).

Then on Tuesday, July 15th it's time for our "Battle of the Books!" We'll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read.

It's episode 212 and time for us to talk about excellently complicate the non-fiction genre of Linguistics & Language! We discuss 🤔, our academic backgrounds, the power of words, accents, and more!

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In this episode

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
• Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
• In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein
• I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
• Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren

Other Media We Mentioned

• 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger
• Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
• Otherwords - Inside the Fiercest Debate in Linguistics
• Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Marie Hicks, and Kavita Philip
• What the Font?! - A Manga Guide to Western Typeface by Kuniichi Ashiya
• Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by Ko Ransom
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondō, translated by Cathy Hirano
  • Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo.You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth. What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat." -Zack Davisson
• Eine wie Alaska [Looking for Alaska] by John Green, translated by Sophie Zeitz
  • "I would read it in German, for a few reasons" - John Green
• Die kleine Fledermaus Wegda by Nanna Nesshöver and Wiebke Rauers
• Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren, translated by Alison Edwards

Links, Articles, and Things

• Great Vowel Shift (Wikipedia)
• Lolcat (Wikipedia)
• Kinokuniya
  • There are four Kinokuniya shops in Texas. Four! Put one in Denver!
• Abugida (Wikipedia)
• Episode 209 - Design

15 Language & Linguistics 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.

• Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
• The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Lisa Delpit
• Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari
• Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
• Grammar Matters: The Social Significance of How We Use Language by Jila Ghomeshi
• A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism by Tomson Highway
• My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes
• Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases by Maia Lee-Chin with illustrations by Marta Bertello
• Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter – Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter
• The Ecology of Language Evolution by Salikoko S. Mufwene
• Mâci-Nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree by Solomon Ratt with illustrations by Holly Martin
• Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Culture by Lee A. Tonouchi
• Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu
• Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 3rd when we'll be discussing "Found Books," that is books that we've found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps.

Then on July 1st we'll be talking about Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. fiction that's not prose)!