Two-Person Book Club

Two-Person Book Club episodes:

• 03.27.2020

  12 - FUCKED:... by Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson

  Season finale! Amanda B. (@AmandaJBermudez) and Rony J. (@ronyphat) try and distract you from the fact that this is only the fourth female-written book they've done out of 12, with a book by TWO ladies: FUCKED: BEING SEXUALLY EXPLORATIVE AND...

  
• 02.28.2020

  11 - WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS by Nelson Antonio Denis

  (#prisonbreakforcover)While Amanda B. is off re-hiding the Holy Grail because we've proven we can't have nice things, Rony J. (@ronyphat) and producer Josh N. (@theincomparablejosh) reveal the greatest unknown revolution in (Latin, but also normal) American history with WAR AGAINST...

  
• 12.27.2019

  10 - The Babysitter's Club #38: KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER by Ann M. Martin

  Amanda B. and Rony J. do the serious-book-club equivalent of hitting on a girl that's obviously...uh... not interested in you, by seeking to break down Babysitter's Club book #38, KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER. Y.A.? YNOT! Ok so here's why not:1.) Pretty...

  
• 12.24.2019

  Bonus Holiday Episode - 'Twas the Poem That's Not Called What You Probably Think It's Called

  Are mice nocturnal?Where's dad?No dad?Tiny reindeer?Fur is murder!Smoking??? INDOORS!Santa's an elf?Explains the chimneys.YOU'RE a jerk.Happy Christmas! G'night.

  
• 12.13.2019

  Bonus Episode - Gini Sikes, Author of 8 BALL CHICKS

  Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez) sits down with 8 BALL CHICKS author Gini Sikes (@8ballchicks) to discuss Gini getting in, her subjects getting out, and women getting on equal footing in America. Along the way, the Midwesterners cover...Lucille Ball goes to the...

  
• 12.02.2019

  9 - 8-BALL CHICKS by Gini Sikes

  Rony J. (@idontreadthis // @ronyphat) and Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez // @a.j.bermudez) do '90s nostalgia all wrong by focusing on the women-on-society's-fringes part of the decade with Gini Sikes's portrait of girls in urban gangs, 8-BALL CHICKS. What does this view...

  
• 11.15.2019

  Bonus Episode - Keren Taylor, Executive Director of WriteGirl

  Amanda B. interviews Keren Taylor (@kerentaylor), Executive Director of the young women's creative writing and mentoring organization WriteGirl (writegirl.org) and publisher of their multiple-dozen-award-winning anthologies. They discuss...The collective's new book, This Moment: Bold Voices from WriteGirl.Self-expression as an unshakable anchor...

  
• 10.25.2019

  8 - 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  Amanda B. and Rony J. face a choice between a.) silently choking down their guilt at not knowing or b.) reveling in the glory of learning the rich history in 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO, by Henry Louis Gates,...

  
• 09.27.2019

  7 - THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson

  Amanda B. and Rony J. take on (and spend way too long taking) THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson. Lean back, pop a (Pro)Zac, and descend into hell with us. Spoiler alert! We're boring and will likely not murder you....

  
• 08.30.2019

  6 - CASINO ROYALE (James Bond #1) by Ian Fleming

  Agent Amanda B. and Rony "Double-O" J. (aka Mr. License-to-Find-the-Real-Killer) jump the shark in rocket-powered skis by doing fiction-- specifically, the novel that introduced 007 to the world, CASINO ROYALE, by Ian Fleming. Did Sir Ian debut with the cool...

  
• 07.26.2019

  5 - BULLSHIT JOBS by David Graeber

  Gas station impresario Amanda B. and Walking Zipper-Face Emoji Rony J. dive into the "work"-for-money system and how and why it's driving us mad via BULLSHIT JOBS, by David Graeber. They had so much fun, the unspoken Western economic contract...

  
• 07.19.2019

  Bonus Episode - (Spiritual) Milk for Babes. Drawn Out of the Breasts of Both Testaments. Chiefly, for the Spirituall Nourishment of Boston Babes in Either England: But May Be of Like Use for Any Child

  Inspired by THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS, Amanda B. and Rony J. put on their tri-corns and dive head-first into a jug full. Ask not what your podcast can do for you, but how much shrimp you can throw on the...

  
• 06.18.2019

  4 - THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS by Jill Lepore

  Amanda B. and Rony J. follow Harvard professor and professional NEW YORKER-er Jill Lepore through birth, adolescence, work, and death, via a Puritan board game called THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS. Amanda antagonizes a (maybe) dead man, while Rony comes face...

  
• 05.24.2019

  3 - (This is) MAUS by Art Spiegelman

  Amanda B. and Rony J. pick through a tender family drama in the looming shadow of the hallmark horror of the 20th century. Come for the cute animal allegory, stay for the holy-crap-they-force-marched-these-people-miles-in-the-woods-at-night-and-left-them-packed-like-sardines-standing-up-in-train-cars-only-opening-the-doors-to-collect-the-dead-and-that's-AFTER-the-war-was-basically-over. Remember-- these are people, that did this...

  
• 04.19.2019

  2 - LOST IN THE COSMOS by Walker Percy

  Amanda and Rony dive into Walker Percy's super-casual hybrid parody-self-help-theoretical-space-narrative centering on a dense mid-century theory of language and the self. What they find there is unspeakable! Pro-tip: don't look at the sun.Also, Charles Bronson, not Richard. He knows.**This book,...

  
• 03.01.2019

  1 - POETICS by Aristotle

  Amanda and Rony vet the philosopher's ideas on what makes a story a story. Can one still Oedipus Rex in a Black Mirror world?