Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This month we're discussing the non-fiction genre of Arts! We discuss "capital-A" art, creating, consuming, and destroying art, library hold-list hacks, Video Game Club for Masochists, woo woo, and scraping ideas off of the sides of artist Faraday cages.

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Kaya Fraser

Things We Read

• Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter
• Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Gorey's Worlds by Edward Gorey
• Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey by Karen Wilkin
• Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
• La Bande Dessinée by Benoît Mouchart

Other Media We Mention

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
• • Graphic Annotations of China Miéville's The Last Days of New Paris
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• • Girl with a Pearl Earring painting by Johannes Vermeer (Wikipedia)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
• Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)
• • Krobus: "He is a shadow person who lives in the sewers."
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Halo (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• Book Club for Masochists
• • Episode 003 - Technology (non-fiction)
  • Episode 064 - Video Games
• Trailer for Take Me (a short film Matthew's mom wrote)
• The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
• Three Books From The Fantod Press by Edward Gorey (are they zines? Maybe?)
• Redburn: His First Voyage by Herman Melville
• • This is the one with the cover by Edward Gorey featuring some sailors
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Edward Gorey
• Dracula (1924 Play) > 1977 Revival (Featuring art design by Edward Gorey)
• Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs: (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You in School) by Sara Benincasa
• Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality by Drew Hayden Taylor
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Creative Independent
• The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo
• The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey
• The Coasters - Searchin'
• • Wikipedia article on the song

Links, Articles, and Things

• Paradise, Nevada (Wikipedia)
• • "Paradise is an unincorporated town" (it's for tax reasons, of course…)
• David Datuna (Wikipedia)
• • "Known for: Sculpture, installation; consuming the banana from Comedian"
• Love is in the Bin (Wikipedia)
• • Banksy artwork that was shredded after auction
• Twitter thread from Stephanie about books they read in their art book club
• Shia LaBeouf's extremely loud motivational speech, explained
• Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade (Instagram poetry)
• Matthew's analysis of the Goodreads top graphic novels of the year
• CinemaSins (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 21st we'll be talking about our 2020 Reading Resolutions!

Then on Tuesday, February 4th we'll be discussing the romance subgenre of Chick Lit!

It's our Best of 2019 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2019, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Bizarro Fiction to True Crime) and the best of everything else we read. Join us!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Favourite Non-Fiction read in 2019:

• For the podcast:
• • Anna:
  • • Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
    • The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma
    • • Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction
  • Matthew:
  • • The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill
    • • The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
  • RJ:
  • • I'll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
    • • Episode 080 - True Crime
  • Meghan:
  • • The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

• Not for the podcast:
• • Matthew:
  • • You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
    • • AI Weirdness blog
      • Twitter thread including neural net generated smut titles - Featuring "Sex Tongs" and "The Nutwoble Resort"
  • RJ:
  • • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
  • Meghan:
  • • How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
  • Anna:
  • • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Favourite Fiction read in 2019:

• For the podcast
• • RJ:
  • • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
    • • Episode 086 - American Gothic
  • Meghan:
  • • Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
    • • Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
  • Anna:
  • • Gutshot by Amelia Gray
    • • Episode 074 - Short Story Collections
  • Matthew:
  • • Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe

• Not for the podcast
• • Meghan:
  • • All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  • Anna:
  • • Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Matthew:
  • • Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
  • RJ:
  • • Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson

Favourite other stuff from 2019:

• Meghan:
• • Au-dela des limites: L'histoire des sports en fauteuil roulant by Judith Lussier and Donald Royer
  • Les petits garcons by Sophie Bédard
• Matthew:
• • Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
  • Lego Rewind
  • • Lego Rewind Ep.20- Halloween Special
• RJ:
• • A Tour of My Plants by Jenna Marbles
• Anna:
• • SciShow
  • Safiya Nigard
  • Jungle
  • Chvrches
  • Billie Eilish
  • Lizzo
  • Flume
  • Sofi Tukker
  • King Princess
  • The Dø
  • Like a Version (triple j)
  • • CHVRCHES cover Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know?' for Like A Version
    • CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar 'LOVE.' for Like A Version

Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast):

• Meghan:
• • The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
  • The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
  • The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu
  • The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus
  • The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke
  • Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch

• Anna:
• • The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell
  • For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
  • Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George
  • Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
  • Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely
  • Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll

• Matthew:
• • Fiction
  • • Clade by James Bradley
    • A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
    • Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
  • Non-Fiction
  • • Thrill-Power Overload: The First Forty Years by David Bishop and Karl Stock
    • Academia Obscura by Glen Wright
    • 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
  • Comics
  • • Hex Vet, vol. 1: Witches in Training by Sam Davies
    • Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman
    • My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
    • Sugar & Spike: Metahuman Investigations by Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely
    • Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt (the first Canadian autobio comic)
    • SP4RX by Wren McDonald (Cyberpunk!)
    • Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
    • O Human Star, Volume One by Blue Delliquanti
    • Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson
    • Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
    • Coda, Vol. 1 by Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara
    • Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama

• RJ
• • Pokémon Cafe
  • Ghibli Museum
  • I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
  • When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
  • Radishes by Carolyn Nowak (also published in Girl Town)
  • Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
  • Santa's Husband by Danielle Kibblesmith & AP Quach

Links, Articles, and Things

• Visual novel (Wikipedia)
• Now Kiss — Love Thyself - A Horatio Story
• Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
• Top Visual Novel games - itch.io
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia)
• Hermitude cover Nirvana 'Heart-Shaped Box' for Like A Version Ft. Jaguar Jonze

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 7th we'll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art!

Then on Tuesday, January 21st we'll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2020!

This month we're discussing Adventure Fiction! We talk about bears (and bear fighting), spies, secret tunnels, robots, survival, thrillers, male romance, geese, pirates, stolen smartphones, shipwrecks, and more!

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Robert Hamaker

Things We Read

• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
• • There are ten sequels to this book! And spin-offs!
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• • Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate (featuring Tim Curry)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
• • Robinsonade (Wikipedia)
• Pirates! by Celia Rees
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
• • Matthew forgot this bit of the book that he also really hates:
  • • "We were guaranteed a spread in Ancient American magazine, and maybe a mention in Obscure Academic Quarterly About Indigenous Peoples (circulation: 151 copies worldwide, hidden in college libraries where no one under the age of forty goes expect to make out)."
• The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber
• Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
• • Dirk Pitt (Wikipedia)
  • Sahara (2005 film) (Wikipedia)
  • The photo that RJ shared with everyone
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• • Rick Riordan Presents (Wikipedia)
  • John Henry (folklore) (Wikipedia)
  • Steel (John Henry Irons) (Wikipedia)

Can RJ find a book in this genre by a trans author?

• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Other Media We Mention

• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
• Conan the Barbarian (Wikipedia)
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (Wikipedia)
• The Shadow (Wikipedia)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Wikipedia)
• Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests by Diana Tixier Herald, Wayne A. Wiegand
• The Executioner (Wikipedia)
• Deathlands (Wikipedia)
• The Young Indiana Jones series of kids books
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Ghost Twins Series by Dian Curtis Regan
• The Boxcar Children (Wikipedia)
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Wikipedia)
• Heinlein juveniles (Wikipedia)
• Indiana Jones (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Tomb Raider (Wikipedia)
• Uncharted (Wikipedia)
• Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 059 - Food and Cooking
• Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction
• Posts from the AI Weirdness blog tagged as "recipes"
• Something Something Soup Something (the "soup or not soup" game)
• "The Lectores Who Read to Cuba's Cigar Rollers"
• Jack London (Wikipedia)
• Adventure fiction (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 17th for our Best of 2019 episode!

Then on Tuesday, January 7th we'll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art!

In this episode we're talking about Other People's Faves (that we do not like)! Yes, it's time for our hot takes and unpopular opinions! We discuss all the pretty spider girls, not finishing books, hate reading, and waiting to read the next book in a series. Plus: Fish venting!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mention (Some of these we like and some of them we do not like…)

• Wanted (2008 film) (Wikipedia)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Wikipedia) - The play we mention
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • The film version (Wikipedia)
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  • The TV version (Wikipedia)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Redwall by Brian Jacques (Wikipedia)
• Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
• Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (Wikipedia)
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett (Wikipedia)
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Murakami off reading lists in New Jersey

• Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna
• • The Not Very Merry Pout Pout Fish Rap
• The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld (this is a book that is actually recommended!)
• Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory
• Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

Links, Articles, and Things

• S. R. Ranganathan's Five laws of library science (Wikipedia)
• "Just thinking about the time I talked mad shit about good ol Jimmy Patterson…"
• • The story about only owning one book.
• CliffsNotes (Wikipedia)
• 21 Books You Don't Have to Read
• • The Dracula live-tweet thread (read this!)
• Tom King (Wikipedia)
• Orson Scott Card (Wikipedia)
• • "Card has publicly declared his support of laws against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage."
• Episode 052 - Separating the Art from the Artist
• Judge Dredd (Wikipedia)
• • The movie
• "Using twitter is just microdosing anxiety"
• Don Cherry (Wikipedia)
• "cryptic horror nightmare country" (Twitter thread)
• HARK! The Holiday Music Podcast

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 3rd we'll be talking about the fiction genre of Adventure Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, December 17th it's our Best of 2019 episode!

This month we're discussing Psychology! We discuss psychedelics, rodent-based experiments, citations and footnotes, and books that turn out to be not what we expected. Plus: Why some of us don't eat cephalopods!

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Amanda Wanner

Things We Read

• How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
• • Not the Monty Python guy, that's Michael Palin
• Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton
• How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron
• • To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (New York Times article)
• Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman
• How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do by Stanley Coren
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
• The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Other Media We Mention

• The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton
• Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
• The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction
• Oliver Sacks (Wikipedia)
• Michael Murray (Google Scholar) - Matthew's dad
• Jean Piaget (Wikipedia)
• XKCD - Purity - "sociology is just applied psychology"
• SF Masterworks (Wikipedia) - The ones with yellow covers

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 19th we'll be discussing Other People's Favourites!

Then on Tuesday, December 3rd we'll be talking about the genre of Adventure Fiction.

Good evening, and welcome to The Midnight Library! Please enjoy this special spooky bonus poetry episode, just in time for Halloween!

Featuring

Matthew Murray | Meghan Whyte | RJ Edwards | Anna Ferri

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

Music:

• Grand Toccata And Fugue In D Minor pt.1 by by Johann Sebastian Bach Performed by Pattman, G. T. on the Liberal Jewish Synagogue Organ, St. John's Wood, London
• • Here's part two!

Samples:

• Thunder3 by Josh74000MC
• Attic door creaking by jymdavis
• Cardboard Box Opening by Coral_Island_Studios
• DoorCreaking11 by Zabuhailo
• BUSSATA (door knocking) by gambler9
• Chiming clock by urupin
• Vinyl record needle static by joedeshon
• Wind space howling effect by alexkandrell

(I think that's all of them...) Next Week on Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast:

Join us again on Tuesday, November 5th we'll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!

Then on Tuesday, November 19th we'll be discussing Other People's Favourites!

This episode we're discussing the topics of Suspending Your Disbelief and Trick or Treaters' Advisory (e.g. Halloween costumes)! We discuss how we read realistic fiction differently from more outlandish fiction, characters acting out of character, super selfish teenagers, and how many costume elements we have in our closets. Plus: We're confused by people who choose not to read fiction!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Contest!

• We hit 50,000 total downloads!
• Tell us your favourite episode! Either through email or social media!
• Win a sticker! (And a book?)

Media We Mention

• Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia)
• The Hunger Games (series) (Wikipedia)
• Gotham Academy (Wikipedia)
• The Goddess of Fireflies by Geneviève Pettersen
• Mr. Dressup (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Suspension of disbelief (Wikipedia)
• Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries
• Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir
• Hark! Episode 238: It's December 22nd, FYI - (When is) Hanukkah This Year
• The Baby-Sitters Club (Wikipedia) - The first 35 novels were written by Ann M. Martin but later volumes were written by ghostwriters using her name.
• Carolyn Keene (Wikipedia) - Collective pseudonym used for Nancy Drew novels
• Franklin W. Dixon (Wikipedia) - Collective pseudonym used for the Hardy Boys novels
• The evolution of Harley Quinn (infographic) - Her various costumes in comics and other media up to 2015
• Harley Quinn Evolution in Comics - Her various costumes in comics up to 2019
• The Suck Fairy
• Cap and bells (Wikipedia)
• Schnappi Das Kleine Krokodil

Costume Inspiration

• Cultural Appropriation at Halloween: My Culture Is Not a Costume
• Students Teaching About Racism in Society Halloween Poster Campaigns
• Photos of us in costumes!
• Barbarella (film)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Red Knight (Alice Through the Looking Glass)
• Cthulhu
• Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin)
• Quintin Quire (X-Men)
• Girl Genius
• Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)
• Eternal Scout (Welcome to Night Vale)
• Taako (The Adventure Zone)
• Tiger Millionaire (Steven Universe)
• WorldCat
• Untitled Goose Game
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
• What are your favourite costumes?

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Then on Tuesday, November 19th we'll be discussing Other People's Favourites!

This month we're discussing American Gothic! We discuss old creepy houses, weird families, cultural context, potential supernatural, the sense of unease, and media that makes you feel emotions. Plus: You've inherited a haunted decaying space station.

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Jessi F

Things We Read

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
• Bonavere Howl by Caitlin Galway
• Florence & Giles by John Harding
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
• Vlad by Carlos Fuentes
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
• • the Mountain Goats (Wikipedia)
  • This Year (music video)
  • Sax Rohmer #1 (music video) (this is the one sampled in the episode)
• Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds
• Gothic Tales of Haunted Love by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko
• • Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures (Kickstarter)

Other Media We Mention

• Hellboy by Mike Mignola
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Vampire: The Masquerade (tabletop game)
• American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• • The real place!
• The Addams Family by Charles Addams (Wikipedia)
• Scooby-Doo
• Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men - 261 – Out of the Subtext, Live from FlameCon with Vita Ayala!
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• Edgar Allan Poe (Wikipedia)
• • The Black Cat
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Raven
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
• Ghosts of Mars (Wikipedia)
• Betrayal at House on the Hill (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 002 - Gothic Literature
• Episode 049 - Southern Gothic
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Wuxia (Chinese martial arts novels)
• The Providence Athenæum

New genres we made up

• Latin American Gothic
• Space Gothic

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 15th we'll be discussing suspending our disbelief when it comes to fiction plus we'll talk about literary-themed Halloween costumes!

Then on Tuesday, November 5th we'll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!

This episode we're discussing recent media we've experienced and enjoyed. We talk Muppets, French pop music, anarchist witches, and in-depth analyses of video game lore. Plus: We talk about some books too!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We've Enjoyed

• Anna's Picks
• • Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley
  • Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
  • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Come by Jain (Music Video)
  • I Like (the idea of) You by Tessa Violet (Music Video)
  • Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior: 4th Edition by Donald O. Case and Lisa M. Given
• Matthew's Picks
• • My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
  • Academia Obscura by Glen Wright
  • • @AcademiaObscura
    • Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken by Doug Zongker
  • The Perfect PokéRap by Brian David Gilbert
  • • Unraveled | Absurdly Comprehensive Game Lore
    • Gill & Gilbert playlist
• RJ's Picks
• • Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled
  • • One Shot podcast: Hearts of Magic, part 1
    • Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands
  • The Muppet Movie (Wikipedia)
  • • The Muppet Movie Trailer
    • Movin' Right Along (song)
    • Robin the Frog (Muppet Wiki)
  • Critical Role
  • • Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Crystal Palace
• Meghan's Picks
• • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
  • If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James Hamblin
  • • If Our Bodies Could Talk - The Atlantic
  • On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Other Media We Mention

• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• BLAME! Master Edition, Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• Knights of Sidonia, Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• The Dark Crystal (Wikipedia)
• • The Dark Crystal - Skeksis language
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Wikipedia)
• • Now Streaming Fizzgigs (Anna and Matthew legitimately got more enjoyment watching this video than the amount of the show they actually watched. Does the show get better? Let us know!)
• this video got me a job by Brian David Gilbert
• Monster Factory
• Dice Friends - Trouble in P4RA-DI5E Episode 1 (Paranoia RPG)
• Fuck My Nose Up by HVDES (song)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Chuck Klosterman (Wikipedia)
• Rio Theatre
• Ontario's interlibrary loan service is running again, but not in Peterborough (Uneven resumption of interlibrary loan in Ontario)
• Changes to Interlibrary Loan Services in Ontario: Details and Frontline Impact for Public Libraries and Patrons

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This episode we're discussing Political Non-Fiction! We talk about the design of American political books, anarchism, accessing abortion, parliamentarians, when is a comic not a comic, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read (or tried to…)

• Anarchism for Beginners by Marcos Mayer and Sanyú
• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
• • Very Short Introductions
• Order Without Power: An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges by Normand Baillargeon
• On the House: An Inside Look at the House of Commons by Rob Walsh
• 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by Graphic History Collective and David Lester
• Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
• • Ben Passmore's comics on The Nib
• The Mental Load: A feminist comic by Emma
• Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics edited by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and O.K. Fox
• • Pay-What-You-Want PDF!
• The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill

Other Media We Mention

• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask
• My Body Politic by Simi Linton
• Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge
• Blood: A Very Short Introduction Christopher Cooper
• Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot, and Kate Charlesworth
• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
• Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers edited by Hazel Newlevant
• The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
• The Game: The Game by Angela Washko
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• LIS Microaggressions zines
• Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS edited by Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho
• The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds by Mike Stanton

Links, Articles, and Things

• Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (Wikipedia)
• • "The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan."
• Why the US drinking age is 21 (Vox)
• The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained (CGP Grey)
• Al Franken (Wikipedia)
• Molly Ivins (Wikipedia)
• David Brooks (Wikipedia)
• Link to the ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Roundtable discussion on "non-fiction comics/graphic novels that are about politics/explain political concepts"
• Joe Sacco (Wikipedia)
• The Nib
• • Join The Inkwell, the membership program by The Nib
• Ku Klux Klan in Canada (Wikipedia)

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