This episode we’re talking about Gender Theory & Gender Studies! We discuss theory vs studies, memes, feminism, books that should exist but don’t, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
• Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
• Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. and J.R. Zuckerberg

Other Media We Mentioned

• BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler
• Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image edited by Ophira Edut
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
• All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
• For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
• Feminism is For Everybody by bell hooks
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
• A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution edited by Karen Green & Tristan Taormino

Links, Articles, and Things

• A small sample of Bibliocommons user-curated lists:
  • Early Feminism Through 1847
  • Feminist Classics: Third Wave Feminism, the 1990s
  • Trans Classics: important books about the many trans experiences
• Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia)
• TERF / FART / “Gender Critical”
• Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’ by Jules Gill-Peterson
  • Gill-Peterson is one of 1,000+ contributors to the New York Times who signed an open letter condemning the anti-trans bigotry in their coverage. Read it here.
• Hark! Episode 330: Fucking Pie

20 Gender Theory/Studies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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.

• Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
• The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
• Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan
• The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn
• Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
• Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
• But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull
• Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson
• Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman
• I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

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Then, on Tuesday, April 4th we’ll be discussing the genre of Domestic Thrillers!

This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• DC Pride 2022 #1
• Tic Tac Tome: The Autonomous Tic Tac Toe Playing Book by Willy Yonkers
• Homestuck (Wikipedia)
• Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Wikipedia)
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Wikipedia)
• Lasers & Feelings
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 144 - What is a Book?
• I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to 
• Episode 108 - Visual Novels
• Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia)
• Demian's Gamebook Web Page
• KineticNovel (Wikipedia)
• Hypertext fiction (Wikipedia)
• HyperCard (Wikipedia)
• Flip Book (Wikipedia)
• Desert Bus for Hope
• Microform (Wikipedia)
• Rice writing (Wikipedia)
• Matthew was just wrong about this
• Changes to new editions of Roald Dahl books have readers up in arms
• Jaffa Cakes: Legal Status (Wikipedia)
• That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law
• Fountain (Duchamp) (Wikipedia)

20 Books Adapted into Film/TV by BIPOC Authors (and 7 Being Adapted Soon)

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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 Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (1985)
• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (1989 mini-series)
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol & Thomas Christensen | Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison | Beloved (1998)
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie | Smoke Signals (1998)
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis (2007)
• Q&A by Vikras Swarup | Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• Push by Sapphire | Precious (2009)
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly | Hidden Figures (2016)
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston | Silence (2016)
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese | Indian Horse (2017)
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give (2018)
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)
• Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Chararipotra | Tiny Pretty Things (2020 TV series)
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger (2021)
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee | Pachinko (2022 TV series)
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese (2023 TV series)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (2023)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Exit West (2023)
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind (2023)
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu | The Three-Body Problem (2023 TV series)
• Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Blackout (forthcoming film & TV series)
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl (forthcoming TV series)

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Then on Tuesday, March 21st we’ll be talking about Moving and Management of Books!

It's almost Valentine's Day, so this episode we’re talking about Holiday Romance! We discuss what counts as a holiday, Christmas, nostalgia, 1st vs. 3rd person narration, and how all the stories we read are “fine.” Plus: There’s only one bed!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
• Someone to Trust by Mary Balogh
• Yule Planet by Angel Martinez
• Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Red Satin Collection by Giselle Renarde
• The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer (the Hanukkah one Jam mentioned)
• Casper Gets His Wish by R. Cooper (the elf one Jam mentioned) (from Episode 063: Cheap eBooks)
• The Frontier Romance: Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity by Judith Kleinfeld

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hark! Episode 328: Brand Synergy
• When Is ‘Cuffing Season?’
• New Christmas Movies You Can Stream This Season (2022)
• How to watch all 172 new Christmas movies in December
• Quiz: What Queer Holiday Romance Should You Read?
• Escape from the Holidays
• 24-hour comic (Wikipedia)

20 Holiday Romance books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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 Holly Dates by Brittainy C. Cherry
• Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
• Sweet on You: A Filipino Romance by Carla de Guzman
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• Kwanzaa Angel by Shirley Hailstock
• Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
• Amor Actually: A Holiday Romance Anthology by Adriana Herrera, Alexis Daria, Diana Muñoz Stewart, Mia Sosa, Priscilla Oliveras, Sabrina Sol, and Zoey Castile
• Merry Inkmas by Talia Hibbert
• Tempted at Midnight by Cheris Hodges
• One Christmas Wish by Brenda Jackson
• Grand Theft N.Y.E. by Katrina Jackson
• Gettin' Merry: A Holiday Anthology by Beverly Jenkins, Francis Ray, Geri Guillaume, and Monica Jackson
• A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
• Holidays with the Wongs by Jackie Lau
• Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough
  • Also published under the title The Boy From the Mish
• The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo
• Right Beside You by Mary Monroe
• Love Me This Christmas by Jasmine Nicole
• The Christmas Clash by Suzanne Park
• All I Want Is You by Kayla Perrin and Deborah Fletcher Mello

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 21st it’s time for What is a book? (part 2)!

Then on Tuesday, March 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Gender Theory/Studies! 

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This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year.

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

2022: Year of Book Two

• Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

2023 Resolutions

• Matthew:
  • Read more non-fiction
• Meghan:
  • Quit trying to read fiction when she doesn’t feel like it
  • Read more of what she owns (borrow less from the library)
• Anna:
  • Read more graphic novels
  • Take pictures of favourite reads
• Jam: 
  • Theme for the year: Intention
  • Return to tracking picture book reading

Media We Mentioned

• Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, narrated by Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer & Steve West
• Illuminae Files (books 1-3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, narrated by Moira Quirk
• Steven Erikson
• Witch Hat Atelier, Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler
• Delicious in Dungeon, Vol 1 by Ryoko Kui, translated by Sébastien Ludmann 

Links, Articles, and Things

• Which Pokemon are the Most Goth?
• Matthew reviews his manga reading from 2022 on Twitter
• List of One Piece manga volumes - Wikipedia

25 Dystopian Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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 to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Leila by Prayaag Akbar
• Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Caster by Elsie Chapman
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
• The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
• Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
• The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He
• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher
• Futureland by Walter Mosley
• The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
• We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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Then on Tuesday, February 21st join us for What is a Book? (part 2)!

This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year.

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

2022: Year of Book Two

• Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

2023 Resolutions

• Matthew:
  • Read more non-fiction
• Meghan:
  • Quit trying to read fiction when she doesn’t feel like it
  • Read more of what she owns (borrow less from the library)
• Anna:
  • Read more graphic novels
  • Take pictures of favorite reads
• Jam: 
  • Theme for the year: Intention
  • Return to tracking picture book reading

Media We Mentioned

• Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, narrated by Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer & Steve West
• Illuminae Files (books 1-3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, narrated by Moira Quirk
• Steven Erikson
• Witch Hat Atelier, Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler
• Delicious in Dungeon, Vol 1 by Ryoko Kui, translated by Sébastien Ludmann 

Links, Articles, and Things

• Which Pokemon are the Most Goth?
• Matthew reviews his manga reading from 2022 on Twitter
• List of One Piece manga volumes - Wikipedia

25 Dystopian Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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 to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Leila by Prayaag Akbar
• Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Caster by Elsie Chapman
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
• The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
• Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
• The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He
• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher
• Futureland by Walter Mosley
• The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
• We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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Then on Tuesday, February 21st join us for What is a Book? (part 2)!

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Sports books! We discuss how to define sports, live sports, weird rules, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google 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 Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-OOPS
  • Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball (YouTube)
  • (lots more below in “Links, Articles, and Things”)
• Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook, narrated by Atli Gunnarsson
• Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
• One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter by Matt Hern
• Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-Changing Female Athletes by Laken Litman
• A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper, narrated by Adam Lazarre-White

Other Media We Mentioned

• Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
• Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn

Links, Articles, and Things

• Which Pokémon are the most goth? (featuring Matthew and Jam)
• Lumberjack World Championship (Wikipedia)
• Sports Book Awards
• Mascot Mischief (Jam’s mascot RPG)
• Pawtucket Red Sox (Wikipedia)
• It’s possible the burlesque wrestling event that Anna and Matthew went to was Glam Slam, which still exists!
• Heritage Minutes (Wikipedia)
  • Wilder Penfield (YouTube)
  • Sam Steele (YouTube)
  • Halifax Explosion (YouTube)
  • Jackie Shane (YouTube) (most recent one!)
  • The 10 Best Canadian Heritage Minutes of All Time
  • A Part of Our Heritage (YouTube)
• AK Press (Wikipedia)
• Green Bay Packers (Wikipedia)
• List of fan-owned sports teams (Wikipedia)
• Sex verification in sports (Wikipedia)
• Testosterone regulations in women's athletics (Wikipedia)
• Zhang Shan: The only female shooter to win gold in a mixed competition
  • “After the Barcelona Games, the International Shooting Union barred women from shooting against men. For the next years, the skeet event remained on the Olympic Games programme, but only for male athletes.”
• The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I by Jon Bois
• Barbados intentionally scored an own goal to help them win by two thanks to a weird golden goal rule Weird Rules on Secret Base (YouTube)
• Twenty20 (Wikipedia)
  • “Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket.”
• Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

16 Sports (Non-Fiction)books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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.

• Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina  by Misty Copeland
• Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization through Physical Activity by Tricia McGuire-Adams
• Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City by Perry King
• A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
• Basketball (and Other Things): a Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
• Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X. O. Woodbine
• Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
• In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
• Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
• A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History by Seth Berkman 
• Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus, Elizabeth Terzakis
• Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America by Jason Reid
• Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford
• My Olympic Life by Anita L. DeFrantz and Josh Young
• Back in the Frame: How to get back on your bike, whatever life throws at you by Jools Walker 
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover

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Then on Tuesday, February 7th it’ll be our annual Valentine’s Day episode and we’ll be talking about the genre of Holiday Romance!

This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Favourite Fiction

• For the podcast
  • Anna
    • Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
      • Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
  • Jam
    • Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
      • Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies
  • Matthew
    • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
      • Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
  • Meghan
    • Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
      • Episode 164 - Military Fiction
• Not for the podcast
  • Jam
    • Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
      • Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy
  • Matthew
    • Semiosis by Sue Burke
  • Meghan
    • Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Anna
    • The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Favourite Non-Fiction

• For the podcast
  • Matthew
    • Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley
      • Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction
  • Meghan
    • The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
      • Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space
  • Anna
    • Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner
      • Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism
  • Jam
    • Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
      • Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction
• Not for the podcast
  • Meghan
    • Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes
  • Anna
    • Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv
  • Jam
    • Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey
  • Matthew
    • X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor

Other Favourite Things of 2022

• Anna
  • Tasting History with Max Miller
    • Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci
• Jam
  • Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday”
    • French tacos (Wikipedia)
• Matthew
  • Unpacking
• Meghan
  • Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian

Runner-Ups

• Anna
  • Video Games:
    • Crashlands
    • Wobbledogs
  • YouTube:
    • Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews)
  • Podcasts: 
    • American Hysteria
    • Maintenance Phase
    • You Are Good
  • Other (Audio)Books:
    • Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
    • Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
    • Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)
    • Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    • The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• Jam
  • Favourite classic: 
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
      • Episode 151 - Classics
  • Favourite manga: 
    • Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia) 
  • Favourite Album: 
    • Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia)
      • Working for the Knife (YouTube)
  • Favourite AAA video game: 
    • Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia)
  • Favourite indie video game: 
    • Wytchwood
  • Favourite Wordle spin-off: 
    • Worldle
• Matthew
  • Video game:
    • Hyper Light Drifter
  • Manga
    • Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen
    • My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by  Taylor Engel
    • Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey
    • Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud
    • Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth
    • Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry
    • Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida
    • Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan
  • Graphic novels:
    • Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
    • A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas
    • Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
  • Books
    • Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
• Meghan
  • Favourite new-to-me author:
    • Zviane
  • Favourite work of translation:
    • The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles
  • Podcast non-fiction runner up: 
    • Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder
  • Podcast fiction runner up:
    • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Non-fiction
    • The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
    • Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins
    • Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
  • Runner up graphic novels:
    • Himawari House by Harmony Becker
    • Taproot by Keezy Young
    • Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu
    • Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French)
    • L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man)
    • Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera 
    • Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French)
    • Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew)
    • Radium Girls by Cy. (French)
    • Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French)
    • Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French)
    • Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French)

Links, Articles, Media, and Things

• Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021
• Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
• ChatGPT (Wikipedia)
• There no longer appears to be an easy way to find images sent through Google Chat anymore, so no screenshots of fake podcast co-hosts discussing reptile fiction. Sorry!
• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia)
• Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap

24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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.

• America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature by Kamal Abdel-Malek
• Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele
• Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, And Snapshots Across Colors, Cultures and Continents by Lola Akinmade Åkerström
• All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
• The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta
• Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
• A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin & Cheryl J. Fish
• I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes
• Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
• A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
• An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
• Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
• Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee
• The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills
• The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul
• Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola
• Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
• An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike
• Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa
• From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth
• Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun
• Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith
• Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 3rd we’ll be talking about Sports non-fiction!

Then on Tuesday, January 17rd we’ll be discussing our 2023 Reading Resolutions!

This episode we’re talking about Military Fiction! We discuss jingoism, how war is hell, war stories vs military fiction, clichés, historical fiction, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• A Summer for War by Darrell Duthie
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen
• Battlefields, vol. 1: Night Witches by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun
  • Night Witches (Wikipedia)
• Battlefields, vol. 6: Motherland by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun
• Battlefields, vol. 8: The Fall & Rise of Anna Kharkova by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
• Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh
• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
  • Code talker (Wikipedia)
• Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler
  • The Fallen of World War II (infographic)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Call of Duty (Wikipedia)
  • No novels, but there are some graphic novels
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• MASH: A Roman About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker
• M*A*S*H (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wikipedia)
  • Figuring out what to link to for Modern Warfare is too much effort
• Spec Ops: The Line (Wikipedia)
• Band of Brothers (miniseries) (Wikipedia)
• Saving Private Ryan (Wikipedia)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
• If anyone has a good link about the connections between Marvel movies and militaries, please let us know!
• John Wick (Wikipedia)
• Coming Home (1978 film) (Wikipedia)
• Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Sgt. Rock (Wikipedia
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
• Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki
• Inglourious Basterds (Wikipedia)
• Preacher (comics) (Wikipedia)
• The Boys (comics) (Wikipedia)
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye (TFWiki)
• Suicide Squad (Wikipedia)
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Links, Articles, and Things

• Finish It! Podcast
• Remembrance Day (Wikipedia)
• Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage
• Episode 055 - Military Non-Fiction
• W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction
• War comics (Wikipedia)
• Protests against the Iraq War (Wikipedia)
• United States and the International Criminal Court (Wikipedia)
• Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History

15 Military Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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.

• Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson
• Where I'm Bound by Allen B. Ballard
• March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac
• At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis
• Flying High by Gwynne Forster
• This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda
• Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
• War Trash by Ha Jin
• Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
• The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi, translated by Nariman Youssef
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
• Two Trails Narrow by Stephen McGregor
• Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
• Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 20th we’ll be talking about our favourite books we read in 2022!

Then on Tuesday, January 3rd we’ll ring in the new year by discussing the genre of Sports non-fiction!

This episode we’re talking about Podcasts! We talk about the first podcasts we listened to (and whether we still listen to them), how we find new podcasts, what speed we listen to podcasts at, what podcasts we’ve been enjoying recently, podcasting in our pyjamas, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Podcasts We Recommended

• Mangasplaining
• Finish It! Podcast
• Stuff The British Stole
• Hey Riddle Riddle
• One Shot Podcast
• Gender Reveal
• Stronger by Science
• The Slowdown
• Food 4 Thot
• American Hysteria
• Dig: A History Podcast
• You Are Good
  • Clue (1985) w. Lauren Milberger

Other Podcasts We Mentioned

• War Rocket Ajax
  • Episode 333 - Long, Sustained Dong f/ [Jam] and Ian from HARK!
  • Episode 383 - The Christmas Specials Special f/ [Jam] and Ian from HARK
  • Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins
• HARK! Podcast
• Wait, What?
• Movie Fighters
• Welcome to Night Vale
• All Songs Considered
• Radiolab
• On Being with Krista Tippett
• Speaking of Faith
• Serial
• My Favorite Murder
• Maintenance Phase
• If Books Could Kill (they apparently don’t have a website, just a Twitter feed and a link to Apple Podcasts)
• You’re Wrong About
  • The Satanic Panic
  • Quarantine Book Club: “Michelle Remembers”
• My Brother, My Brother and Me
• The Adventure Zone
• Alice Isn’t Dead
• The Moth
• Episode  136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled
• 99% Invisible
• RISK! Podcast
• Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr
  • Tenure and Transparency (Brenna Clarke Grey talks about the tenure process)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Podcast (Wikipedia)
  • "Podcast" is a portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast". The earliest use of "podcasting" was traced to The Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben Hammersley, who coined it in early February 2004 while writing an article for The Guardian newspaper.
• The man who accidentally invented the word ‘Podcast’
• ComicsAlliance (Wikipedia)
• Judge Dredd (Wikipedia)
• BBC Radio 6
  • Matthew listened to a lot of Steve Lamacq’s show
• Evolution of the iPod [2001-2022]
• How YouTube Became a Podcasting Powerhouse Without Trying
• Podcast Addict
• Who's on First? (Wikipedia)
  • Abbott & Costello Who's On First
• Parasocial interaction (Wikipedia)

15 Literary Podcasts by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Podcasters

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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.

For this episode on podcasts, we’ve compiled a list of literature-related podcasts featuring BIPOC hosts/creators.

• AAWW Radio
• Black Chick Lit
• Book Friends Forever
• Book Women Podcast
• Books & Boba
• Deadline City
• Dreaming In The Dark
• Getting Lit Podcast
• LibVoices
• Minorities in Publishing
• Not Another Book Podcast
• Shaping the Narrative
• Storykeepers Podcast
• Tres Cuentos Literary Podcast
• Well-Read Black Girl

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Then on Tuesday, December 20th we’ll be talking about our favourite books we read in 2022!

This episode we’re talking about Investigative Journalism! We talk about what makes something journalism, when we don’t read articles, enjoying vs. appreciated media, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love by Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman
• Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump by Sarah Posner, narrated by Cassandra Campbell
• The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer by Nicholas Shaxson
  • "The overall results of this sea change from progressive economics toward identity politics has been an enduring one, and it was crystallized by Hillary Clinton in an election rally speech in 2016. "If we broke up the big banks tomorrow," she shouted, "Would that end racism?" "No!” Her audience replied. "Would that end Sexism?" No!" Although she did say she would tackle the banks if they misbehaved, hers was a pro-big bank message, couched as something progressive.”
• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs by John Pilger
  • Murrow on McCarthy (YouTube)
• Dreamland (YA Edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
• The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael
• Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Charles Bowden and Nick Schou
• The Disappearing Act by Florence de Changy

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster
• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by The Boston Globe
• Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman
• Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (Wikipedia)
• Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
  • Also published as Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
• Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson
• Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson
• The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
• Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Links, Articles, and Things

• The Librarian Alignment chart
• Jorts the Cat
• Episode 080 - True Crime
• The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos
• Ed Yong
  • His COVID stories in The Atlantic
• Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction
• Notes from America
  • The Wolf Pack of White Nationalism
• Hillary Clinton Suggested Breaking Up the Big Banks Won’t End Racism and Sexism. Is She Right?
• How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
• “kind of a bummer to have been born at the very end of the Fuck Around century just to live the rest of my life in the Find Out century” (Twitter, 2021-02-21)
• The Invisible Substrate of Information Science
• MLM:
  • Men Loving Men: Men who have sex with men (Wikipedia)
  • Multi-level marketing (Wikipedia)
  • Marxism–Leninism–Maoism (Wikipedia)
• Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
• “Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus” (Twitter, 2021-11-08)

10 Investigative Journalism Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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 Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees by Matthieu Aikins
• The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
• Stolen from Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities by Suzanne J. Fournier and Ernie Crey
• We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle
• Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
• Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
• The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
• His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels
• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
• The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B. Wells

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 15th we’ll be talking about Podcasts!

Then on Tuesday, December 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Military Fiction!