Book Club for Masochists

A potentially controversial episode as we discuss Separating the Art from the Artist. We bring up #MeToo, library neutrality, problematic faves, and firing people out...

In this 80 minute episode we talk about Essay Collections! We get into some deep topics this time, talking about precarity, race relations, and cultural...

Our Fiftieth Episode Extravaganza is our longest episode ever! We answer your questions! We answer our questions! We talk about library fines, reading parties, stats,...

This episode we discuss the genre of Southern Gothic! We talk about the “key elements” of Southern Gothic fiction (plantations, swamps, secrets, and racism), gothic...

This episode we catch you up on what books and comics we’ve been reading and shows we’ve been watching. We discuss guitar-playing ghost talkers, being...

In last week’s episode (Episode 047 – Creative Writing/Books About Writing) Matthew threatened to read some of the fiction he’d written for exercises from Ursula...

In last week’s episode (Episode 047 – Creative Writing/Books About Writing) Matthew threatened to read some of the fiction he’d written for exercises from Ursula...

This month our genre is Creative Writing/Books About Writing! With real, live, award-winning authors! (Well, one anyway.) We discuss our own experiences with these sort...

This episode we look back on our Reading Resolutions from last year and discuss our plans for reading in 2018! You can download the podcast...

This episode we’re reading Family Sagas! Do they have to be incredibly long? Do they have to be boring? Plus: We talk about diversity, reading books...