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  • Episode 229 - Media Criticism

    Episode 229 - Media Criticism
    Apr 7 2026
    It's episode 229 and time for us to talk about Media Criticism. We talk about what counts as media, the challenges of writing about emerging forms of media, how we interact with criticism, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel BetancourtReading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas WolkMarvel Age of Comics: Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic by Stuart Moore, narrated by Jason LaskyCritical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria MachadoCulture Creep: Notes on a Pop Apocalypse by Alice BolinPop Classics #15: Ugh, as if!: Clueless by Veronica LittSelected Amazon Reviews by Kevin KillianWe See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell AndersonThe Devil Finds Work by James BaldwinWhy I love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature edited by Becky Siegel SpratfordBad Indian Bookclub: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec Other Media We Mentioned Parasite EveClever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregorAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil PostmanManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky33 ⅓The Importance Of Being Earnest | Official Trailer | National Theatre LiveLady Sings the BluesVideo Essayists Answer Your Assumptions (with hbomberguy‬, ‪D'Angelo Wallace, and Mina Le, ft. Spencer Agnew) Our Favourite Video Essayists/Reviewers/Reviews Action ButtonAmanda the JediAny AustinDungeon ChillEvery Frame a PaintingFolding IdeasI Finished a Video GameJacob GellarJenna StoeberJenny NicholsonhbomberguyLindsay EllisMatt McMuscles: The Worst Fighting GameMatty BitesPrincess WeekesReRez: Just Bad GamesRyan HollingerSuper Eyepatch WolfT1JTodd in the ShadowsThe WWE's complex "Black" history by F.D SignifierExtremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List | Part 1: Re-ranking the Top 20 by Innuendo Studios and Questing Refuge Jam's list of top 10 video essays about media I've never seen Links, Articles, and Things The Times Literary SupplementBubbles Zine The Comics StapleLibro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program 20 Media Criticism Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin Black Music by Amiri Baraka The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television From Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond by Bethonie Butler Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey Original People, Original Television: The Launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network by Jennifer David Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Video Games are Changing Our World by Marijam Did Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by Karen Han Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals by Julia Lee Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship by Lori Kido Lopez The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema From Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris Music Is History by Questlove Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media update! Then on Tuesday, May 5th, we'll be talking about Sapphic horror (as suggested by tmauch)
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    59 mins
  • Episode 228 - Computers / Computer Science

    Episode 228 - Computers / Computer Science
    Mar 17 2026
    It's episode 228 and time for us to talk about Computers and Computer Science books! We discuss technology, digital humanities, coding, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (2016)Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (2022) I could not find a free version of this online Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip (2021)The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games Paperback by Elliot Lichtman (2025)Must Know High School Computer Programming by Julie Sway (2020) In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999)A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu (2016)Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (2012) Other Media We Mentioned The Soul of the New Machine by Tracy KidderClose to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents San Francisco by Ellen UllmanLife in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen UllmanClickArt 65,000Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999)Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson Mother Earth Mother Board Links, Articles, and Things Separating the data from the CHAFF by Matthew Murray 🦇, Fernando Rios, and Seth Erickson9-track tape Academic Book About Emojis Can't Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of CopyrightMedia Archaeology LabAlice Averlong (formerly Foone)READMEInstitute for Advanced Study 15 Computer Science Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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. Job Ready Java by Haythem Balti and Alan Galloway Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People by Aditya Y. Bhargava More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media by Bronwyn Carlson and Ryan Frazer Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age by Joseph Migga Kizza Code for What? Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice by Clifford Lee & Elisabeth Soep AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh Creative Coding in Python: 30+ Programming Projects in Art, Games, and More by Sheena Vaidyanathan A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online by Jennifer Wemigwans System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide by Alex Xu Number Theory for Computing by Song Y. Yan Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty) Then on Tuesday, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media Update!
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 227 - Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable

    Episode 227 - Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable
    Mar 3 2026

    It's episode 227 and time for an emergency backup episode! This episode is the audio version of "Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable" a presentation we gave for the 2022 Ontario Library Association's RA in a Day event. There's also a video version on our YouTube channel.

    You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

    In this episode

    Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

    Video version

    • https://youtu.be/hi_C_O_GLIA

    Slides

    • https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/presentations/7s75df43s

    Give us feedback!

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    Join us again on Tuesday, March 17th when we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea).

    Then on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty).
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    53 mins
  • Episode 226 - Reading Resolutions

    Episode 226 - Reading Resolutions
    Feb 17 2026

    It's episode 226 and time for us to talk about our 2026 Reading Resolutions! We discuss reading books, not reading books, quitting reading books, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Oh no, the passage of time!

    You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

    In this episode

    Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

    2026 "resolutions"/intentions

    • Matthew
      • Read all the personal "book of the month" display books
      • Read all the fiction books owned
      • Read all of the non-comics non-fiction owned
      • Read all the graphic novels owned
      • Be on the internet less and read more
      • Get rid of books monthly
    • Anna
      • Read more fiction
      • Catch up on what fantasy's been up to in the last 15ish years
    • Meghan
      • Read books already owned (for the podcast when possible); rereads ok!
    • Jam
      • Read in tiny bursts if that's the time available
      • Quit books and move on to something else

    Give Us Suggestions!

    • Suggest puzzle books to Jam
    • Suggest fantasy novels from the last 15 years to Anna
    • Suggest sources for in-depth book reviews

    Other Media We Mentioned

    • Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
    • Blood Meridian and the reddit-ification of literature
    • Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

    Links, Articles, and Things

    • Circulating Ideas 304: Passive Readers' Advisory, with Lila Denning
    • Tiled Words
    • Puzzmo
    • Minute Cryptic
    • Alto (high-speed rail)
    • Adhesive remover

    American Gothic books by BIPOC Authors:

    Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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.

    • Ruby by Cynthia Bond
    • House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
    • An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole
    • The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
    • The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
    • Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez
    • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
    • The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
    • The House of Erzulie by Kirsten Imani Kasai
    • A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
    • When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
    • Beloved by Toni Morrison
    • Cane by Jean Toomer
    • Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
    • Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
    • We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White

    Give us feedback!

    • Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!

    Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email!

    Join us again on Tuesday, March 3rd when we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea).

    Then on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty).
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    44 mins
  • Episode 225 - Queer Romance

    Episode 225 - Queer Romance
    Feb 3 2026
    It's episode 225 and just in time for Valentine's Day we talk about Queer Romance! We discuss what counts and doesn't count as romance, ice hockey, regency, spies, demons, and more! Plus: Matthew reads a book he actually likes, Jam reads a book they dislike, and a fairly large chunk of the episode wasn't recorded and had to be edited around! Guess what parts were re-recorded! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Betrothed to the Emperor by Kai Butler (2025)Emperor's Wrath by Kai Butler (2025)If I Told You, I'd Have To Kiss You by Mae Marvel (2025)The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur (2025)The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (2021)With Stars In Her Eyes by Andie Burke (2025) Jam's review Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei (2022)A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (2022)A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander (2025) Not discussed Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey (2025)The Unexpected Heiress by Cassidy Cane (2025)One Love by Matt Cain (2025)Swordcrossed by Freya Marske (2024)First Time for Everything by Henry Fry (2022) - Not actually romance Other Media We Mentioned Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake (2022)Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (2019)Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2019)Bedazzled (2000 film)Bedazzled (1967 film) Links, Articles, and Things Harlequin EnterprisesMills & BoonEpisode 210 - RomantasyEpisode 207 - Monster Romance Episode 189 - Romantic Comedies & Humorous RomanceEpisode 168 - Holiday Romance 25 Queer Romance Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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. Can't Let Her Go by Kianna Alexander Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Eva Apelqvist Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender Hangry Hearts by Jennifer Chen Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao Love Points to You by Alice Lin Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough Just Like This by Cole McCade Cash Delgado is Living the Dream by Tehlor Mejia A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell Last First Kiss by Julian Winters Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 17th when we'll be discussing our 2026 Reading Resolutions (or non resolutions). Then on Tuesday, March 3rd we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea).
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 224 - History

    Episode 224 - History
    Jan 6 2026
    It's episode 224 and time for us to talk about History books! We discuss queer history, local history, spies, roads, colonialism, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Lapêche : A history of the townships of Wakefield and Masham in the province of Québec 1792 to 1925 by Norma Greggie and Stuart Greggie (1974) Reconciling History: A Story of Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould and Roshan Danesh (2024) The Drive Across Canada: The Remarkable Story of the Trans-Canada Highway by Mark Richardson (2025) Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett (2025) The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini (2020) Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson (2019) How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr (2019)Fool Time part 1: The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois (2025) Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History by Donna Seto (2025) Black History is For Everyone by Brian Jones (2025) When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff (2024) Other Media We Mentioned Video Game History Foundation Video Game History Hour (podcast) If Books Could Kill - The End of History Playing at the World, Vol. 1: The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons by Jon PetersonDig (history podcast) The Labor of Fashion: Shirtwaists and the Labor Movement in the Early 20th Century Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games by Steenz and Samuel Sattin Links, Articles, and Things Advanced PlacementGolden Age of Comic Books Union of British Columbia Indian ChiefsHarry Benjamin Transgender Archives at the University of VictoriaGuano Islands Act Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman 28 History Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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. The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan AbramsRemembering Our Relations : Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones Bad Mexicans : Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded by Gord Hill Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf, translated by Jon Rothschild Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles This Place: 150 Years Retold by multiple authors The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History by Donna Seto Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century edited by Michael D. Shin Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 3rd we'll be talking about Queer Romance! ...
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 223 - 2025 Favourites

    Episode 223 - 2025 Favourites
    Dec 16 2025
    It's episode 223 and time for us to discuss our favourite reads (and other things) from 2025! We talk vampires, monster romance, cultural studies, linguistics & language, and more. Plus: Guess how many of our favourite reads are actually from 2025 (it's more than zero!). You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Genres (and "genres") we covered in 2025: Fiction Episode 207 - Monster RomanceEpisode 2010 - Romantasy Episode 214 - Non-Traditional StorytellingEpisode 216 - Rural Noir/Grit LitEpisode 219 - VampiresEpisode 221 - Epic & High FantasyEpisode 222 - Books from the 1980s Non-fiction Episode 206 - Cultural StudiesEpisode 209 - DesignEpisode 212 - Linguistics & Language Other Episode 213 - Found BooksEpisode 218 - Book Club Books Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna Of Monsters and Mainframes (2025) by Barbara Truelove (Episode 219 - Vampire Fiction) Jam Strange Love (2019) by Ann Aguirre (Episode 207 - Monster Romance) Matthew Hunger's Bite (2025) by Taylor Robin (Episode 219 - Vampire Fiction) Meghan Assassin's Apprentice (1995) by Robin Hobbs (Episode 221 - Epic & High Fantasy) Not for the podcast Jam Delicious in Dungeon (2017-2024) by Ryoko Kui Matthew Revolutions: Mars (2024-2025) by Mike Duncan Meghan Between Two Fires (2012) by Christopher Buehlman Anna Mercy Thompson series (2006-2024) by Patricia Briggs Moon Called (2006) Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (2018) by Gaston Dorren (Episode 212 - Language & Linguistics) Meghan Clever Girl : Jurassic Park (2024) by Hannah McGregor (Episode 206 - Cultural Studies) Anna Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) by Neil Postman (Episode 206 - Cultural Studies) Jam In Other Words (2015) by Jhumpa Lahiri (Episode 212 - Language & Linguistics) Not for the podcast Meghan A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places (2024) by Christopher Brown Anna Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022) by Douglas Rushkoff Jam Twenty Questions (2023) by Mac Barnett Matthew Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2021) by Cal Flyn Other Favourite Things of 2025 Anna Bear and BreakfastNongshim Shin Ramyun Stir Fry Gourmet Spicy Noodles With CheeseNew York CityFunkyFrogBait Jam Getting into drag (and writing a friend-newsletter about it)Penguin Cafe Orchestra"Touch Fabric" project (Glurp) Matthew Akira, vol. 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo Akira Club by Katsuhiro OtomoType HelpDungeon Chill The Mysterious Serial Experiments Lain PS1 Game The Tim Traveller The First Ever WORLD Tram Driver Championships Grand Sumo Highlights Blue Whirlwind: A Ukrainian sumo wrestler Meghan Anciients (prog metal)Comforting (atmospheric metal)Long pool Runners-Up Jam Fawns' Blood by Hal Schrieve (Episode 219 - Vampires) Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Episode 218 - Book Club Books) Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell (Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling)Two Point Museum (Jam has clocked 150+ hours)Wikipedia (consider making a donation!) Anna Guards! Guards! By Terry PrachettNotorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis Matthew 25 tracks from 2025Books Inheritance (Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling)Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. KleinThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (Episode 206 - Cultural Studies) Comics Akane-Banashi (vols. 4-6) by Yuki Suenaga and Takamasa MoueThe Apothecary Diaries (vols. 2-4) by Itsuki Nanao and Nekokurage Beetle & the Chimera Carnival by Aliza LayneBlue Period (vols. 13-14) by Tsubasa Yamaguchi Brain Damage by Shintarō Kago Deprog by Tina Horn and Lisa SterleDial H for Hero, vol. 1: Enter the Heroverse & Dial H for Hero, vol. 2: New Heroes of Metropolis by Sam Humphries and Joe QuinonesFool Night (vols. 2-4) by Kasumi YasudaGACHIAKUTA (vol. 1) by Kei UranaHome Office Romance by Kintetsu Yamada Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker and Sean PhillipsMermaid Saga (vols. 1-2) by Rumiko TakahashiVampirella: Dark Powers by Dan Abnett and Paul Davidson / Red Sonja: The Superpowers Collection by Dan Abnett and Jonathan Lau The Wrong Earth (vol. 1) by Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle Meghan French À l'ombre du moulin : une enfance à Gatineau 1934-1948 by Bernard Lacroix Deep café : Une jeunesse avec la poésie de Léonard Cohen by Malcolm Reid Non-fiction The Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting by Casey Johnston 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious ...
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 222 - Books from the 1980s

    Episode 222 - Books from the 1980s
    Dec 2 2025
    It's episode 222 and time for us to talk about books from the 1980s! Okay, I say "books" but it's really "science fiction and fantasy novels from the 1980s." You probably could have guessed that if you've listened to the podcast before. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Further Adventures of Batman (1989)Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (1989)Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (1987)Dawn by Octavia Butler (1987)The Kindly Ones by Melissa Scott (1897)When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger (1897) First edition coverThe "more cyberpunk looking" cover Other Media We Mentioned Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesBatman (1989)Batman (1960s)The Wrong Earth, vol.1 by Tom Peyer and Jamal IgleThe Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett Fafhrd and the Gray MouserDragonriders of Pern Mort by Terry PratchettWyrd Sisters by Terry PratchettGravity FallsManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam ChomskyAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981) E.T. by William KotzwinkleReturn of the Jedi (novel) by James Kahn Links, Articles, and Things Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1980sThe Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Beanie BabiesLabubu 20 Books of the 1980s by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (1980) Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko (1980) Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (1981) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) Zami, A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982) In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton (1983) Suder by Percival Everett (1983) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985) An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (1987) Dawn by Octavia Butler (1987) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (1987) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987) Scorpions by Walter Dean Meyers (1988) White Badge by Ahn Junghyo (1989) Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid by Evelyn Lau (1989) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 16th we'll be talking about our favourite books of 2025! Then on Tuesday, January 6th we'll be beginning our year of "listener suggested genres" with… non-fiction history!
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    1 hr and 6 mins