Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

All aboard! This episode we're discussing the non-fiction genre of Transportation and Transit! We talk trains, buses, bicycles, spaceships, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd
• Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik
• Ghost Train (four part podcast by Denver Public Radio)
• Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden
• Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden
• Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
• Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell
• Links between two cities: historic bridges between Ottawa and Hull by Lucien Brault.

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways by Mike Ashley
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• Orient Express by Graham Greene
• Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura
• Heaven's Design Team, Vol. 1 by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako
• For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter
• Vancouver's Expo Line 1990 vs 2020
• Mini Metro
• Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig
  • There's a documentary movie!
• Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig
• How To F#€k Up An Airport (five part podcast by Radio Spaetkauf)
• Some YouTube channels and videos about trains and transport things:
  • CityNerd
  • Not Just Bikes
    • Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere)
    • Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) (See the building Anna and Matthew used to live in!)
  • RMTransit
  • The Tim Traveller
  • This New LA Metro Station Should be PACKED - Here's Why It's Not
  • Denver's Transit System is Problematic
• Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

Links, Articles, and Things

• Note to self: Make "derail" joke about conversation going off topic.
• Train_Station-Katowice_Poland.wav by jgrzinich
• Rail replacement bus service (Wikipedia)
• Slow television (Wikipedia)
  • "It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009."
• Fort Collins Trolley
• 'I am done': Amid rider woes, is Ottawa's transit system a victim of its own success?
• Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow

12 Transit/Automotive/Planes/Trains/Boats 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.

• Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay
• Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
• Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka
• Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo
• Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover
• Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew
• Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix
• Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
• Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman
• Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
• Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor
• The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we'll be discussing the genre of Humorous/Funny Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 20th we'll be talking about our reading resolutions for 2024! (2024? That can't be right. That's definitely the future.)

This episode we're discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, 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

Favourite Fiction

• For the podcast
  • Anna
    • The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers)
  • Jam
    • Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror)
  • Matthew
    • Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror)
    • The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction)
  • Meghan
    • The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy)
• Not for the podcast
  • Jam
    • Heaven's Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako
      • Naked mole rats do not die of old age
      • Owls' ears are at asymmetrical heights
      • Tarsiers have two tongues
      • Accidental Elephant (YouTube)
  • Matthew
    • Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
      • Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia)
  • Meghan
    • What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
  • Anna
    • Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood)

Favourite Non-Fiction

• For the podcast
  • Matthew
    • Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics)
  • Meghan
    • Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry)
  • Anna
    • They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs)
  • Jam
    • Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies)
• Not for the podcast
  • Meghan
    • Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
  • Anna
    • Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
  • Jam
    • The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181)
  • Matthew
    • Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague

Other Favourite Things of 2023

• Anna
  • If Books Could Kill
    • The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge
    • Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube)
  • Two Point Hospital / Campus
  • Oxygen Not Included
  • Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
• Jam
  • Nimona (film)
  • Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki
• Matthew
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
  • Nier: Automata (Wikipedia)
• Meghan
  • Ten Candles
  • Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue

Runner-Ups

• Jam
  • Games
    • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)
    • Baldur's Gate 3 (Wikipedia)
    • Redactle
  • Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy)
  • Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1)
  • Changing my name (legal procedure)
  • Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies)
  • Moon (celestial body)
• Matthew
  • Comics
    • Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa
    • Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen
    • The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe
    • Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
    • Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
    • Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell
    • Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
    • Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber
  • Books
    • Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi
    • Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano
    • Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui
    • Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam
    • The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
    • The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
    • A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
  • Games
    • Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy
    • Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)
    • Tetris Effect
    • Bayonetta (Wikipedia)
  • Video Essays
    • The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas
    • Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game
• Meghan
  • Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker
  • Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
  • Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley
  • Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven
  • Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr
  • A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
  • Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B.
  • Witch King by Martha Wells
  • Bad Fruit by Ella King

Other Media We Mentioned

• Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
• Theme Hospital (Wikipedia)

25 Food/Cooking 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.

• Niqiliurniq: A Cookbook from Igloolik by Micah Arreak, Annie Désilets, Lucy Kappianaq, Glenda Kripanik, and Kanadaise Uyarasuk
• New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian by Freddie Bitsoie
• Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table by Toya Boudy
• Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations by Tabitha Brown
• tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine by Shane M. Chartrand with Jennifer Cockrall-King
• Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly
• 50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the United States Through Pie by Stacey Mei Yan Fong
• Modern Native Feasts by Andrew George Jr.
• Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha
• A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism by Eric Holt-Giménez
• Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui
• Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim
• Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna with Ritu Krishna
• 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
• A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food from Asia by Lara Lee
• Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking by Shahir Massoud
• The Mexican Home Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico by Mely Martinez
• Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in México by Rick Martinez
• Food-Related Stories by Gaby Melian
• Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel
• Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
• Plantcakes: Fancy + Everyday Vegan Cakes for Everyone by Lyndsay Sung
• Chef Tee's Caribbean Kitchen by Chef Tee
• Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes by Bryant Terry
• Cooking with the Wolfman: Indigenous Fusion by David Wolfman and Marlene Finn

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 2nd when it's time for trains, planes, and automobiles (and bicycles) as we discuss non-fiction books about Transit and Transportation!

Then on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we'll be discussing the genre of Humourous/Funny Romance.

This episode we're discussing the fiction genre of Suspense! We talk about crime, mysteries, horror, and even suspense!

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…)

• Ascension by Nicholas Binge
• The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha
• Malice by Keigo Higashino
• Dead Woman Walking by Sharon J. Bolton
• Alice in Borderland by Haro Aso (Wikipedia)
• Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
• Reckless by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
• A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson

Read But Not Mentioned

• Find Me by Anne Fraser
• Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
• The Midnight Line: Jack Reacher #22 by Lee Child
• The Phantom Scientist by Robin Cousin, translated by Edward Gauvin
• Wyrd, vol. 1 by Curt Pires and Antonio Fuso
• Colorless, vol 1 by Kent
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark

Other Media We Mentioned

• Scalped by Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, and others
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia)
• Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
• Small Game by Blair Braverman

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hark! Podcast
• Category:Fiction about death games (Wikipedia)
  • What Matthew described as "escape room fiction"
• Final girl (Wikipedia)

20 Suspense Novels 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.

• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose
• A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
• The Between by Tananarive Due
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
• We Lie Here by Rachel Howzell Hall
• The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka
• My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa
• The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
• Are You Sara? by S.C. Lalli
• Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow
• The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
• Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu
• Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
• Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon
• There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh
• In the Dark We Forget by Sandra S.G. Wong

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 19th it's time for our Favourite Reads of 2023!

Then on Tuesday, January 2nd it's time for trains, planes, and automobiles (and bicycles) as we discuss non-fiction books about Transit and Transportation!

What About Crowdfunded Comics? By Matthew Murray 🦇 and Mara L. Thacker

Published in Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library edited by Brian Flota and Kate Morris

Read the full book chapter.

Notes

1. Caitlin McGurk and Jenny E Robb, "Comics in Special Collections: Purposeful Collection Development for Promoting Inclusive History," in Comics and Critical Librarianship (Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2019), 169; examples of crowdfunded comics providing a platform for marginalized voices include Black Comix Returns: African American Comic Art & Culture, Bystander: Stories, Observations & Witnessings from South Asia and Sensory: Life on the Spectrum—An Autistic Comic Anthology
2. Todd Allen, "Is Kickstarter the #2 Graphic Novel Publisher?," PublishersWeekly.com, July 10, 2012, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/52925-is-kickstarterthe-2-graphic-novel-publisher.html.
3. "Kickstarter Stats," Kickstarter, accessed August 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats.
4. Chris Arrant, "These Are the Titles Driving Kickstarter Comics to Their Biggest Year Yet," gamesradar, July 21, 2021, https://www.gamesradar.com/these-are-the-titles-driving-kickstarter-comics-to-their-biggest-year-yet/.
5. "Monthly Ranking for Patreon Comics: Ranking for Top Creators by Month," Graphtreon, accessed August 12, 2021, https://graphtreon.com/monthly-ranking/comics.
6. "Ended on Ulule," Ulule, accessed August 12, 2021, https://www.ulule.com/ discover/?categories=bandes-dessinees&offset=0&statuses=ended&languages=fr.
7. Oriana Leckert, "Pow! 2020 Is the Best Year Yet for Comics on Kickstarter," Kickstarter.com, October 20, 2020, https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/2020-is-the-best-year-yet-for-comics-on-kickstarter.
8. Kat Calamia, "Should Major Publishers & Creators Be Crowdfunding Comics alongside Independent and DIY Creators?," GamesRadar+, September 22, 2020, https://www.gamesradar.com/should-major-publishers-and-creators-be-crowdfunding-comics-alongside-independent-and-diy-creators/.
9. While Image Comics is a well-known comics publisher, they tend to operate more like self-publishing than many traditional publishers as they do not pay page rates or advances, provide minimal editorial oversight, and charge a flat publishing fee.
10. "Drainers—An Underground Graphic Novel," Cloudscape Comics, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudscape/drainers-an-underground-graphic-novel; Robert Jeffrey II, "Route 3: Vol 1," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter. com/projects/1484007393/route-3-vol-1; Richard C. Meyer, "'No Enemy, But Peace' Graphic Novel," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/863672719/no-enemy-but-peace-graphic-novel; "Are You Ready for War in the Neighborhood?," Ad Astra Comix, Indiegogo, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/1856162.
11. A "stretch goal" is an amount above the initial amount asked for at which point additional rewards are "unlocked."
12. A "tier" is a level of support tied to a specific amount of money.
13. The campaign for "Atomic Robo and the Spectre of Tomorrow HARDCOVER" lists "Fifty copies for Libraries + another Print in Print Set!" as a stretch goal in an image but doesn't describe these goals in text anywhere on the project page.
14. Rachel Seeger, "SPROUT: A Wordless Comic Book for Kids," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511570919/sprout-a-wordless-comic-book-for-kids.
15. Tom Humberstone, "Solipsistic Pop 4: Maps," Indiegogo, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www. indiegogo.com/projects/solipsistic-pop-4-maps#/; Becca Hillburn, "7 Inch Kara Volume 2: An All Ages Watercolor Comic," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/ projects/beccahillburn/7-inch-kara-volume-2.
16. Isaac Cates, "Cartozia Tales: Ten Issues," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www. kickstarter.com/projects/1765342446/cartozia-tales-ten-issues; "Life Finds a Way," Cloudscape Comics, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudscape/ life-finds-a-way.
17. "Aztlan Graphic Novel," Astlan, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter. com/projects/aztlan/aztlan-graphic-novel; Joamette Gil, "Mañana: Latinx Comics From the 25th Century," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/powerandmagic/manana-latinx-comics-from-the-25th-century; "Chicken Soup and Goji Berries," Cloudscape Comics, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudscape/ chicken-soup-and-goji-berries.
18. Including the "Reading Rainbow" DVD campaign, the only non-comic related crowdfunding project we found that specifically mentioned libraries.
19. Seeger, "SPROUT"; "Barefoot Gen for Schools and Libraries," Last Gasp, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1784498350/barefoot-gen-for-schools-andlibraries; JD Sweet, "The Ring Masters Comic—Continuing the Adventures!!," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trmvsshiaraku/the-ring-masters-comic-continuing-the-adventures; Levar Burton and Reading Rainbow, "Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere!," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/ projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh; Jeff Douglas Messer, "The Adventures of Young Robin Hood Comic Book," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https:// www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffdouglasmesser/the-adventures-of-young-robin-hood-comic-book; Sean Lykins, "Lora and the Paper Mirror (Children's Comic)," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/739841783/lora-and-the-paper-mirror-childrens-comic; Sweet, "The Ring Masters Comic"; "Happy AlternaWeen!," Alterna Comics, Indiegogo, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2419865.
20. Megan Lavey-Heaton, "Valor: Fairy Tale Comic Anthology about Courageous Heroines," Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1987386669/ valor-a-fairy-tale-anthology-about-courageous-hero.
21. Debra A. Riley-Huff et al., "Crowdfunding in Libraries, Archives and Museums," The Bottom Line 29, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 67–85, https://doi.org/10.1108/BL-03-2016-0014.
22. "Crowdfunding and Public Libraries: The Record so Far," Public Libraries News (blog), June 28, 2018, https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/campaigning/increasing-income/crowdfunding-andpublic-libraries-the-record-so-far; K. W. Colyard, "15 Crowdfunding Campaigns For Libraries To Donate To This National Library Week," Bustle, April 12, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/15-crowdfunding-campaigns-for-libraries-to-donate-to-this-national-library-week-50736; Caroline Lewis, "Crowdfunding the Library," Library Journal (April 17, 2013), https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=crowdfunding-the-library; Tom Mukite, "Bring the Hulk to the Northlake Public Library," Indiegogo, 2013, http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/386975/fblk.
23. Kay Ann Cassell, "Do Large Academic Libraries Purchase Self-Published Books to Add to Their Collections?," in Self-Publishing and Collection Development, ed. Robert P. Holley, Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015), 27–36, https:// doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1wf4dpf.7; Heidy Berthoud, "Going to New Sources: Zines at the Vassar College Library," The Serials Librarian 72, no. 1–4 (May 2017): 49–56, https://doi.org/10.1080/03615 26X.2017.1320867.
24. McGurk and Robb, "Comics in Special Collections"; Jerry Spiller, "Decoder Ring-Digital Comics: Ownership vs. Access," Against the Grain 25, no. 5 (November 1, 2013), https://doi. org/10.7771/2380-176X.6628; Jerry Spiller, "Decoder Ring--Collaboration Is King in Cartozia," Against the Grain 25, no. 6 (2013): 2; Jerry Spiller, "Decoder Ring—Fireside Fiction Keeps the Stories Coming via Crowdfunding and Subscription," Against the Grain 27, no. 3 (June 1, 2015), https://doi. org/10.7771/2380-176X.7114; Jerry Spiller, "Decoder Ring—Unexpectedly Musical Updates," Against the Grain 27, no. 5 (November 1, 2015), https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.7213.
25. Matthew Z. Wood, Comic Book Collections and Programming: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
26. McGurk and Robb, "Comics in Special Collections"; Izabella Penier, Martin Paul Eve, and Tom Grady, "COPIM—Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs 2020," Zenodo, September 8, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011836.
27. Tom Bruno, "Self-Publishing and Libraries: The Slush Pile Is the Platform," in Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015), 125–38, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dpf.14.
28. "Kickstarter Comics at the Library—The Seattle Public Library," BiblioCommons, accessed October 16, 2020, https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/ share/104354882_shelf_talk/1146745557_kickstarter_comics_at_the_library.
29. "Review Copies and What We Cover," No Flying No Tights (blog), accessed February 5, 2021, http:// www.noflyingnotights.com/about/submitting-review-copies/.
30. "Best Graphic Novels for Adults—FAQ," Text, Round Tables, April 20, 2020, http://www.ala.org/rt/gncrt/-bgna-faq.
31. Perry Chen and Aziz Hasan, "The Future of Crowdfunding Creative Projects," Kickstarter, December 8, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects.
32. Heidi MacDonald, "Kickstarter's Switch to Crypto Platform Alarms Creators," The Beat (blog), December 9, 2021, https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-crypto-platform-alarms-creators/.
33. Rob Salkowitz, "Why Comics' Top Crowdfunder Is Leaving Kickstarter For Her New 'Poorcraft' Project," Forbes (February 7, 2022), https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/02/07/ why-comics-top-crowdfunder-is-leaving-kickstarter-for-her-latest-project/.

Further Reading

Stretch goals: Launching crowdfunded comics collections in academic libraries by Mara L. Thacker and Jason Larsen

This episode we're discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting! We talk about art vs craft, makerspaces vs crafting spaces, the challenges of trying new crafts, academic crafting, 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…)

• Paper + Craft: 25 Charming Gifts, Accents, and Accessories to Make from Paper by Minhee Cho, Truman Cho, and Randi Brookman Harris
• Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design by Steve Dodds
• Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander
• Crafting Change: Handmade Activism, Past and Present by Jessica Vitkus
• Hand Lettering: Creative Alphabets for Any Occasion by Thy Doan Graves
• Mastering Hand-Lettering: Your Practical Guide to Creating and Styling the Alphabet by Mye De Leon
• Creepy Cross-Stitch: 25 Spooky Projects to Haunt Your Halls by Lindsay Swearingen
• A Crochet World of Creepy Creatures and Cryptids: 40 Amigurumi Patterns for Adorable Monsters, Mythical Beings and More by Rikki Gustafson
• Chonky Amigurumi: How to Crochet Amazing Critters & Creatures with Chunky Yarn by Sarah Csiacsek
• Simple Hand Sewing: 35 slow stitching and mindful mending projects by Laura Strutt
• Boro & Sashiko, Harmonious Imperfection: The Art of Japanese Mending & Stitching by Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby
• Wilderness Knits for the Home by Linka Neumann

Other Media We Mentioned

• Two Point Hospital (Wikipedia)
• Two Point Campus (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Fuse beads (Wikipedia)
• Jam's Tiger Millionaire costume (and their trophy)
  • Tiger Millionaire (Steven Universe Wiki)
• The cross stitch Matthew finished the night before recording
• Bone folder (Wikipedia)
• Fourth Doctor (the one with the scarf) (Wikipedia)
• Creativebug (see if your library provides access)
• Creepy halloween mask template
• Granny square (Wikipedia)
• Creepypasta (Wikipedia)

15 Crafts and Crafting 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.

• Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands: Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories by Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez
• The Embroidered Garden: Stitching through the Seasons of a Flower Garden by Kazuko Aoki
• asowacikanisa: A Guide to Small Metis Bags by Amy Briley and Gregory Scofield
• Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide by Brandi Cheyenne Harper
• This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection by Jen Hewett
• Print, Pattern, Sew: Block-Printing Basics + Simple Sewing Projects for an Inspired Wardrobe by Jen Hewett
• Embroidered Animals: Wild and Woolly Creatures to Stitch and Sew by Yumiko Higuchi
• Super Easy Amigurumi: Crochet Cute Animals by Mitsuki Hoshi
• Mini Knitted Woodland by Sachiyo Ishii
• The Art of Mi'kmaw Basketry by edited by shalan joudry and Holly Brown Bear
• Embroidery: A Modern Guide to Botanical Embroidery by Arounna Khounnoraj
• Visible Mending: A Modern Guide to Darning, Stitching and Patching the Clothes You Love by Arounna Khounnoraj
• The Tunisian Crochet Handbook: A Beginner's Guide by Toni Lipsey
• Literary Yarns: Crochet Projects Inspired by Classic Books by Cindy Wang
• The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice by Kristina Wong

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 5th we'll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, December 19th it's time for our Favourite Reads of 2023!

This episode we're discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, 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…)

• Straight by Chuck Tingle
• Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
• The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
• Leech by Hiron Ennes
• The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow
• House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
• Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper
• Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi
• The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui

Things We Read (but didn't talk about in this episode)

• Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki
• Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer
• Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
• Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
• A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
• The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw
• Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum

Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned

• Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins
  • Dracula on the Moon
• Stephen King
  • Misery
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
  • Cujo
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia)
• Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia)
• R.L. Stine
  • Goosebumps
  • Fear Street
• Junji Ito
  • The Enigma of Amigara Fault - "T-this is my hole! It was made for me!"
  • Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
• Emily Carroll
• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
  • Smart Podcast Trashy Books: 579. Punk Rock Writing with Chuck Tingle
• Candle Cove by Kris Straub
  • Candle Cove (Wikipedia)
• Black Swan (film) (Wikipedia)
• The Addams Family (Wikipedia)
• Dune (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• SCP Foundation
  • SCP-087
  • The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube)
• Terror in 16-bits
• Five Nights at Freddy's (Wikipedia)
• The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
  • We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
• Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube)
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
• Abbott and Costello (Wikipedia)
• Dread (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, Etc.

• Episode 176: Fantasy
• Episode 123: Psychological Horror
• Does the Dog Die?
• Matthew's spooky phone case is a variant of this one
• Matthew did a "31 Spooky Manga" challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October.
• The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry

Sound Effects

• Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01
• Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ
• bats1 by sofie
• Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy

31 Recent Horror 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.

This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years.

• Jackal by Erin E. Adams
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
• The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
• The Spite House by Johnny Compton
• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
• And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
• Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
• Piñata by Leopoldo Gout
• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
• My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
• Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
• Lone Women by Victor LaValle
• Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia
• This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
• Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele
• Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
• Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop
• There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer
• She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
• Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong
• White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

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Then on Tuesday, December 5th we'll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction!

This episode it's time for One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. We talk about spoilers, horse operas, spoilers, relationships, spoilers, queer coming-of-age stories, and spoilers. Plus: Spoilers!

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

The Book We Read

• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Other Media We Mentioned

• River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Wikipedia)
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Wikipedia)
• The Walking Dead (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Links, Articles, and Things

• Horse Opera
• Episode 029 - Westerns
• Smart Bitches Trashy Books review of Upright Women Wanted
• Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read Changed my Life by Sarah Gailey

Jam's Upright Women Wanted film cast comprised of internet tabletop roleplayers:

• Esther: Becca Scott
• Cye: Erika Ishii
• Bet: Krystina Arielle
• Leda: Ashley Johnson
• Amity: Aabria Iyengar

12+ International Noir 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.

• Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle
• The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas
• The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim
• The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
• Real World by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Philip Gabriel
• Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
• A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi
• Nothing Is Lost by Cloé Mehdi, translated by Howard Curtis
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Morena-Garcia
• My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Sam Bett
• I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
• The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
• Plus many in the Akashic Books noir series, including:
• Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer
• Haiti Noir edited by Edwidge Danticat
• Manila Noir edited by Jessica Hagedorn
• Nairobi Noir edited by Peter Kimani
• Baghdad Noir edited by Samuel Shimon

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 3rd get ready for Halloween because we'll be talking about the genre of Horror!

Then on Tuesday, November 7th we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting!

This episode we're talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, 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…)

• Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
• Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr
• Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
• Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
• Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
• Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith
• Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones
• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi
• No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
• White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
• Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum
• The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
• The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott
• Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
• 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
• When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
• All Def Poetry
• milk and honey by rupi kaur
• One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
  • Trailer for Netflix show
• "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" by Audre Lorde (pdf)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)
• The Writer's Block
• The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
• Chiac (Wikipedia)
• Plasco Building (Wikipedia)

30 Recent Poetry Collections 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.

This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.

• Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne
• Feast by Ina Cariño
• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
• Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo
• Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
• I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
• Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
• Song of my Softening by Omotara James
• Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin
• Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna
• Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
• Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
• Finna by Nate Marshall
• Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin
• God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
• You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
• I'm Always So Serious by Karisma Price
• Homie by Danez Smith
• Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik
• Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano
• That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri
• it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
• Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith
• Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith
• Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
• Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
• Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams
• Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
• From From by Monica Youn

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 19th it's time for our One Book One Podcast episode as we all discuss the book Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey!

Then on Tuesday, October 3rd get ready for Halloween because we'll be talking about the genre of Horror!

This episode it's time for our Summer 2023 Media Update! We talk about chairs, orangutans, weird music, and 17 novellas! Plus, lots more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media & Things we Talked About

• Meghan
  • Graphic Novels
    • L'Esprit du camp by Cab, Michel Falardo
    • Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, coloured by Muntsa Vicente
    • Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge
  • Looking at Stuff
    • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
    • A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz (illustrator)
    • Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John R. Stilgoe
  • Novellas
    • Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire
    • The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo
    • Voidwitch Saga by Corey J. White
• Matthew
  • Ducks by Kate Beaton
  • Weird Music
    • Venjent - Flowin' with the Vibe
    • Venjent - Tapping Away
    • Venjent - Create Machines
    • Jacek Dzwonowsk - Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle
    • Boys Noize & Pussy Riot - "Chastity" feat. Alice Glass
      • "Put it in a dick cage"
  • Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)
• Jam
  • Captain Disillusion
    • Orangutan Card Trick DEBUNK
  • Corridor Crew
    • VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 57 (Ft. Captain Disillusion)
    • VFX Artists React to Amazing Movie Props With Adam Savage!
  • The Girl I Am, Was, and Will Never Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney
  • Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)
    • 'Breath of the Wild' is the Zelda Adventure I've Always Wanted by Austin Walker
• Anna
  • Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
  • LoadingReadyRun - Swap & Shop - Selling Edition
  • Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
  • Photos of chairs (on Matthew's Instagram account)
  • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

18 Non-Fiction Military 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.

• Transformed: A Navy SEAL's Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds by Remi Adeleke
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati
• Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan
• Gabriel Dumont Speaks by Gabriel Dumont, translated by Michael Barnholden
• Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees by Yen Le Espiritu
• They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit by Ruben Gallego
• Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America by Truman K. Gibson Jr.
• Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
• Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism by Tom Holm
• Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War by Tom Holm
• Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes
• The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
• Duty, Honour and Izzat: From Golden Fields to Crimson - Punjab's Brothers in Arms in Flanders by Steven Purewal
• Call Me Chef, Dammit!: A Veteran's Journey from the Rural South to the White House by Andre Rush
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk
• Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly

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Then on Tuesday, September 19th it's time for our One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey!

This episode we're talking about the fiction genre of Pulp! We talk about aliens, Mounties, sleuths, and vigilantes as discuss what counts as pulp and what doesn't!

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…)

• Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante by Richard Tooker
• The Aliens by Murray Leinster
• "All the Colors of the Rainbow" by Leigh Brackett
  • Republished in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Lisa Yaszek
• The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. I edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
• Sally the Sleuth by Adolphe Barreaux - Forward by Tim Hanley
• Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties edited by Don Hutchison
• Planet Scumm - Issue 15: Major Arcana
  • The Battle of York by James Stoddard

Other Media We Mentioned

• Two-Fisted Library Stories on itch.io
• Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server
• Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps edited by Sheldon Jaffery
• McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon
• A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023
• The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and '70s Mexico
• Two-Fisted Library Stories on itch.io
• The Shadow (Wikipedia)
• Pulp collections available online:
  • The Pulp Magazines Project: "an archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazine from 1896-1946"
  • The Pulp Magazine Archive at Internet Archive
• Weird menace (Wikipedia)
• Episode 19: Weird Fiction (not "New Weird" as Matthew says)
• Sauron (comics) (Wikipedia)
• Betty Ross (Wikipedia)
• Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele
• Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz

15 Pulp Novels & Anthologies 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.

• Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarría, translated by Carlos Lopez
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey
• Four Bullets for Dillon by Derrick Ferguson
• The Green Lama: Scions by Adam Lance Garcia
• The Banks by Roxane Gay and Ming Doyle
• A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
• Blind Corners by Jemir Robert Johnson
• It Came from Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
• Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
• Once Upon a Time in Afrika by Balogun Ojetade
• One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
• Black Pulp II edited by Kimberly Richardson
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Then on Tuesday, September 5th when we'll be discussing the format of Lyric Poetry!