Podcast Episodes

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 01 - Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club #1)

We have convened a club whose charter is to learn about The Baby-Sitters Club. Join us as we met the Club's founding members and learn about Kristy's mortal enemy: her mom's new boyfriend.

These episo…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Ep 711 - Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

Gay anti-fascist librarians roam a speculative future version of the western United States in this week's novella. It's pretty close to as cool as it sounds, though the book will probably leave you w…

Published on 2 months ago

The Sillymarillion Episode 0 - J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, an Introduction

For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be learning about the world of Middle-Earth! We're going to read J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION.

In this ep…

Published on 2 months ago

Ep 710 - A Boy's Own Story, by Edmund White

The late Edmund White’s breakthrough 1982 novel is the first in a trilogy of autobiographical novels that depict key eras in his life as a gay man. A Boy’s Own Story is, as you might expect, about a …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Ep 709 - The Complete Peanuts, by Charles Schulz

Good grief! It's time to talk about Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy - the whole gang. To give ourselves a solid cross-section of Charles Schulz's work on Peanuts, we read Volume 1 (1950-52) and Vo…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 708 - American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis (w/ Too Scary, Didn't Watch!)

We’re joined by Sammy and Emily of the TOO SCARY, DIDN’T WATCH horror movie podcast this week to talk about Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. None of us had an amazing time with this read, partly b…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 707 - Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg

Leslie Feinberg’s debut novel is an intersectional bildungsroman about Jess Goldberg, a butch lesbian navigating the constellation of oppression that was the United States in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Ep 706 - James, by Percival Everett

James isn't so much a retelling or corrective of Huck Finn as it is an expansion, a conversation with, a delving -- or so says Pulitzer Prize winner Percival Everett. Tune in to find out what happens…

Published on 3 months ago

Ep 705 - Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

A dying preacher writes a (rather) long letter to his son. Another dying preacher’s son returns home, seeking…something. Salvation? Forgiveness? A balm? Robinson’s novel is a deeply considered portra…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Ep 704 - Cursed Bread, by Sophie Mackintosh

This is another one of those historical books that could have resulted from a Wikipedia dive, this one's arguably based on a real historical event but with a non-real non-historical protagonist .

Our …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago