Episode 173 - Spring 2023 Media Update

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about recent media we’ve experienced and enjoyed! We discuss Return of the Obra Dinn, Worlds Beyond Number, Horror Queers, If Books Could Kill, Superman Smashes the Klan, Incredible Doom, Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media we Experienced

• Jam
  • Mystery Games:
    • Curse of the Golden Idol
    • Tangle Tower
    • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Podcasts:
    • Off Book
      • They Died on Space Mountain (with Ben Schwartz)
    • Lateral
      • Episode 1 of the quiz show of the same name (which is now unlisted on YouTube)
    • Worlds Beyond Number
      • Episode feed
  • Life hacks:
    • Make cooking feel like a magic ritual
    • Delete the Twitter app
    • Custom printed to-do list
• Anna
  • Dinkum
  • Winkeltje: The Little Shop
  • Horror Queers
  • If Books Could Kill
  • Mine O’Clock - Minecraft Through the Ages, episode 1
    • LRR Streams
• Matthew
  • Thirty-One Nil: The Amazing Story of World Cup Qualification / On the Road with Football's Outsiders, a World Cup Odyssey by James Montague
    • Episode 166 - Sports (Non-Fiction)
  • Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
    • The Adventures of Superman (radio series) - "Clan of the Fiery Cross" (Wikipedia)
  • Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
• Meghan
  • Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci
  • Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
  • Onley's Arctic: Diaries And Paintings Of The High Arctic by Toni Onley

Other Media We Mentioned

• Knives Out (Wikipedia)
• Only Connect (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• RA in a Day - Ontario Library Association (April 24th)
  • Our session is “Non-Fiction for Newbies: Navigating the Nuances”
• Catalogues & Cardigans: A Library RPG Zine #111
• Bulletin board system (Wikipedia)

15 Creative Writing books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown
• The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
• The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
• About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany
• Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich
• Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
• This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
• Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V.S. Naipaul
• How Dare We! Write edited by Sherry Quan Lee
• The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
• The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
• Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples by Gregory Younging

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Economics! (Economy?)

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