This is the eighth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week, Tracy and I get together for a conversation on visual novels, especially The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Other visual novels you might want to check out: the Danganronpa series, the Zero Escape series, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series, The House in Fata Morgana, Dream Daddy, The Walking Dead, Batman: The Telltale Series, and other Telltale games. Disco Elysium has a lot in common with visual novels, but the writing is better.

In the back half of the episode, Tracy and I discuss the books we're reading. Texts mentioned include Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec, God's holy Bible, the works of Eula Biss in general, Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step by Cecile Pineda, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (again!), and Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Plus probably something else I'm forgetting.

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My thanks to Tracy for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the seventh episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest unfortunately fell through, so it's going up slightly late, and the format is a bit different. This time I read excerpts from three pieces:

03:05 - "The Guy with the Eyes," a short story by Spider Robinson 13:38 - An excerpt from The Fawn, by Magda Szabó 31:20 - The first chapter of Iza's Ballad, by Magda Szabó

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My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the sixth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is Ed "from Bluesky" Roppel, one of the four cohosts of "Normal Men", the only podcast on Bluesky. He blogs at ed3d.net.

Texts and writers discussed include but are not limited to the Foundation series, Robert Heinlein, John W. Campbell, Ben Bova, Spider Robinson (especially his story "The Guy with the Eyes"), The Sixth Column, L. Ron Hubbard, Orson Scott Card, Neuromancer, Michael Stackpole, The World According to Garp, Seeing Like a State, Moral Mazes, The Uncaccountability Machine, and László Krasznahorkai

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You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the fifth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is Rachel Jane Andelman, a writer, performer, and improv coach in the Boston area. She has taught at ImprovBoston and Union Comedy. She currently performs improv with independent casts Tales of Enstonishment and Magic: The Gathering: The Show, as well as her stand-up act, in the Boston area and beyond.

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You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the fourth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is my friend Ned Resnikoff, an analyst, researcher, journalist, and consultant with a particular focus on housing and urban policy.

Follow me on Bluesky here, and Ned here. You'll learn about his forthcoming book Cities for the People in his pinned post. Ned's newsletter Public Comment is here, and here are the articles we discussed in the pod: The Party Should Throw Them a Party, and Happy Hour Power. The site for Resnikoff Consulting is here.

The article "Is Matter Conscious?", by Hedda Hassel Mørch, can be read here.

You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the third episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guests are my friends Lea, Anne, and Allie, the cohosts of my favorite wrestling podcast, Tunnel Talk. After an initial tooth and claw struggle for power, we settled in to discuss what we had been reading, dying from gender-induced sleep deprevation, the importance of butter, and more. My thanks to the Tunnel Talk ladies for letting me play host!

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You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the second episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is my friend Blorb, who is a cartoon pug. I met Blorb on a discord about professional wrestling, they did the art for this pod, and they are a delight. We talked about a bunch of books, furnipure, Culver's, and everything else.

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You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

This is the first episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is my partner, Tracy Rae Bowling. We discuss Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland, Yukio Mishima's Beautiful Star, and G-Fest 2025.

You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.