Well, look. I did not manage to get this podcast edited and release in January. As it’s going to probably be our second-to-last podcast (more to come on that), I was truly hoping to have it out earlier in the year, but then life got in the way, and I had to settle for having it out before the Super Bowl. (Bengals!!!!) We chatted about alllllllll the books we acquired over the holiday break, discuss some superlatives in our 2021 reading years, and then the rest of the podcast is just FISH FACTS. Which is honestly very on brand for…
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Did you miss us? We missed you! It’s the holiday season, therefore the perfect time to talk about how to be ethical when doing art. tldr; you still have all the same moral responsibilities when making art that you have at any other time. We also have the opportunity to chat about TL Huchu’s The Library of the Dead, a very fun ghost story and the first in a series of ghost story mysteries. (Huzzah.) You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 153 Here…
Leave a CommentHello, patron friends! This podcast is coming to you earlier than expected because there is a very enormous hurricane coming my way, and I have had to hustle to get this podcast out in advance of its arrival. If you are not in the path of a hurricane currently, please keep a good thought for us! If you are experiencing some other natural disaster, please know that I am keeping a good thought for you. What a dreadful world it is these days! Why are we all stuck with it this way? You can listen to the podcast in the…
1 CommentFriends, a sea change has befallen Whiskey Jenny in this plague year. Not to spoil the thing I find out on air this episode, but Whiskey Jenny has made a shift! a change! from being a determined non-DNFer to DNFing books left and right. In but the last few days prior to recording this episode, she DNFed two entire books! I didn’t even know this when I proposed this topic, but needles to say I’m thrilled about it. I think everyone should abandon books they’re not enjoying. You’d all find it so cleansing! We chat about that, get a polar…
Leave a CommentIt’s Wednesday once again, and we are all the way into summer now! I had the opportunity to speak with P. Djèlí Clark, author of the new novel A Master of Djinn, a murder mystery set in an alternate version of Cairo with magic! And djinns! We chatted about what real historians have to say about alternate history, changes in the SF genre over the past ten years, and when to stop researching for a historical novel (answer: never). It’s a great conversation about a terrific book, and I hope you enjoy! You can listen to the podcast in the…
Leave a CommentIt’s Wednesday once again! And Whiskey Jenny and I have realized that we never talked about moms in fiction, and we’re mad about moms in fiction, so HERE YA GO. Other content in this podcast includes: Whiskey Jenny talking about Ted Lasso, possibly her favorite thing ever; me abjectly apologizing for Hatening Whiskey Jenny way too intensely with Christopher Yates’s dark academia novel, Black Chalk; kind of a lot of bloopers; and a lot of discussion of unreliable narrators and how much the Whiskey Family dislikes them. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download…
Leave a CommentThe Hatening begiiiiiiiiiiiiiins! I dearly hope that with this Hatening, I have managed to talk Whiskey Jenny out of Hatening me to read Irish literature, because this is now two Irish books in a row that haven’t really worked for either of us. Star of the Sea is set on a famine ship, and the good thing I can say about it is that it made me really want an Upstairs/Downstairs style BBC series that takes place on board a ship. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you…
Leave a CommentWE ARE BAAAAAAAACK THE PODCAST IS REUNITEDDDDDDDD, not even this pandemic can keep us apaaaaaaaaaaart! It’s me and Whiskey Jenny, reunited to shoot the shit and discuss all the books we read in 2020 (all two of them). It’s magical! I love her so much! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 145 Things We Discussed If the Boot Fits, Rebekah Weatherspoon The King Must Die, Mary Renault Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings Vanishing Falls, Poppy Gee The Midnight Bargain, CL Polk Sorcerer…
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