Book Club for Masochists

It’s one of our irregular “other media” episodes! This time we talk about French language books, dinosaurs, beetles, breakfast cereal, children’s books, and more! You...

This month we read Romance Fiction! We talk about “interpersonal attraction”, fake fan fiction, imagining the leads of romance novels look like David Bowie, spice-o-meters,...

This episode we’re talking about Travel Reading! What do we read when we travel? How do we pick which books to bring? Which fictional places...

This episode we’re discussing Non-Fiction Food and Cooking books! We talk about the mystery of electric kettles, bodybuilding expertise, and fear of trying to make...

This month we all read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente as though we were...

This month our genre is Nordic/Scandinavian Noir! There’s coldness and darkness in fiction, blood on snow, screaming children, and we ask (and answer) whether Iceland...

This episode we discuss the American Library Association Annual Conference and the many galleys we got there! We talk about wrestling, ballet, leeches, cancer, demons,...

This month our genre is Military Non-Fiction! We talk about defining war, sword fighting, genocide, and conscription. Plus: Trebuchets! You can download the podcast directly,...

This episode we’re talking about how we ended up working in libraries, literary inspirations for our careers, and what you should think about before you...

Our genre this episode is Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy. We talk about anachronisms, comedy in sci fi/fantasy and sci fi/fantasy in comedy, “laugh out...