You asked, GBR answered! Due to popular demand, we’ve decided to release our first literary horoscopes episode—in full!—to our regular listeners. These reading recs from Makda and astrologer Milo Anderson Offerein are ones that you’ll definitely wanna share with all the air signs in your life.

Titles mentioned:

Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Ducks by Kate Beaton

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth

Real Man Adventures by T Cooper

In a Land Without Dogs, Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel

All's Well by Mona Awad

How You Get Famous by Nicole Pasulka

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Wallpaper* City Guide New York by Wallpaper*

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Check out Milo’s astrological offerings on their website.

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For GBR’s first Patreon Preview, Makda is joined by Edmonton-based queer astrologer Milo Anderson Offerein for the first instalment of a four-part series on literary horoscopes. In this sneak peek, Milo gives a crash course in Astrology 101 before the pair recommend some reads for air signs Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. To listen to the full episode, subscribe to the Glass Bookshop Radio Patreon!

Check out Milo’s astrological offerings on their website.

You can find Milo on Twitter @AleaMilo and Instagram @moondemilo, as well as Facebook and Substack.

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After a brief, tech delay-induced break, GBR is back in action this week with special guest Priya Guns. The author of YOUR DRIVER IS WAITING sits down with Makda to talk origin stories, the highs and lows of writing in academia, and anger as a tool for transformation. 

Priya Guns is an actor and writer previously published in short story anthologies, gal-dem, and Spring magazine, and anonymously in The Guardian. Born in Jaffna and raised in Tkaronto, she graduated from York University and studied Creative Writing at Kingston University in the U.K. No matter where she is, she is Scarborough at heart. YOUR DRIVER IS WAITING is her debut novel.

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On this episode of GBR, Makda is joined by multidisciplinary artist and educator Britta Badour to talk all things WIRES THAT SPUTTER, Britta's debut poetry collection. They discuss the skills performance poets bring to the page, what makes WIRES THAT SPUTTER feel like an album, and playfulness as creative practice.

Britta Badour, better known as Britta B., is a Toronto based award-winning artist, poet, and educator. As a spoken word performer, she has featured at notable events such as The Walrus Talks, TEDx, as well as international literature festivals like Women of the World Poetry Slam and LitFest Bergen. She is the recipient of the Breakthrough Artist Award (Toronto Arts Foundation, 2021) and Lecturer of the Year (COCA, 2021). Britta holds an MFA in creative writing from University of Guelph and teaches spoken word performance at Seneca College.

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This week on the pod, writer, editor, and pop culture aficionado Jen Sookfong Lee joins Makda for her second stint on GBR, this time to discuss her new memoir SUPERFAN: HOW POP CULTURE BROKE MY HEART. The pair talk about the power of saying no, fandom in the Internet age, and the relationship between nostalgia and memory.

Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, The Shadow List, and Finding Home. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast, Can’t Lit. Her newest book is the memoir Superfan.

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You can order SUPERFAN here and listen to Jen’s previous GBR episode here.

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This week on the pod, GBR makes its triumphant return with an episode featuring two writers and interdisciplinary artists we all know and love: Emily Riddle and Jessica Johns. Celebrating Emily’s debut poetry collection THE BIG MELT and Jess’ debut novel BAD CREE, our favourite pair of besties come together to discuss the many kinds of love that make their lives full, the significance of writing the books they wished they had as teens, and the identity-affirming power of cultural knowledge.

Emily Riddle is Nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation (Kipohtakaw). A writer, editor, policy analyst, language learner and visual artist, she lives in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). She is the senior advisor of Indigenous relations at the Edmonton Public Library. Her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Teen Vogue, The Malahat Review and Room Magazine, among others. In 2021, she was awarded the Edmonton Artists’ Trust Award. Emily Riddle is a semi-dedicated Oilers fan and a dedicated Treaty Six descendant who believes deeply in the brilliance of the Prairies and their people.

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. She is an interdisciplinary artist and winner of the 2020 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize.

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You can find Emily on Twitter and Instagram @emilyjaneriddle and Jess on Twitter @jessicastellaaa and Instagram @jessicastellaa.

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