Happy Monday! As y’all may know, I’ve been thinking a lot about the boundaries between fanfic and literary fiction and genre fiction, and one of the ways this has manifested is that I chased down Lara Elena Donnelly, author of the wondrous secondary world fantasies Amberlough and Armistice, to ask her many questions about her background with fandom and fanfic. If you haven’t read her books yet, I recommend them highly: They are about the performers and owners and patrons of a glam-as-fuck nightclub in a country where fascists are slowly taking over. This interview contains no spoilers for either…
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In one and the same week there have dropped a profile of Jonathan Franzen that was everything I wanted it to be and our VERY FIRST BONUS PODCAST EPISODE, made possible by our wonderful Patreon patrons. So, I mean, those are two things making me happy, even though there’s a lot that sucks about this week. And I hope those things can make you happy, too.
This time around, we’re discussing The Man from U.N.C.L.E., one of the greatest movies of our time and a top candidate for me to donate to a Kickstarter for a sequel to. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
There are no time signatures because we literally only talk about one thing this week, and it’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and everything we love about it. Please enjoy. Here is Henry Cavill’s face half in shadow.
Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).
Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is available below the jump!
Leave a CommentSome time ago, when my Twitter TL was having many conversations about genre fiction and fanfiction and literary fiction, and I was chatting to my brilliant friend Maureen about how to solve genre wars, I got the notion of writing some posts with litfic recommendations for lovers of fanfiction. Then, as tends to happen, I got distracted by life events and the world being on fire and I didn’t do anything about it. BUT. Then I read this extremely litficcy book, America Is Not the Heart, by Elaine Castillo, and when I say extremely litficcy you should understand that I…
Leave a CommentIt’s Wednesday, and I am running out of ways to say that the world feels more on fire than usual. But I hope that our podcast can be a small escape from the news. Call your reps, then hunker down under a weighted blanket with some chocolate cake and join in with our extremely high level of enthusiasm for Lord of the Rings and the books we already own and are determined to read at last — plus a literary fiction book that was really really not in our wheelhouse.
You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!
0:21 – What we’re reading
3:05 – What we’re learning
9:01 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 1-5
26:10 – Summer TBR Piles
39:47 – Halsey Street, Naima Coster
49:31 – What we’re reading next time
Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).
Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is available below the cut!
Leave a CommentSo one of my random but intense opinions is that the Stanford Prison Experiment and its creator, Philip Zimbardo, are unethical as shit and also bad science. If you get me started on the Stanford Prison Experiment, I can expostulate for a good twenty minutes on everything that was wrong with it and how infuriating it is that it continues to garner its unethical creator praise and fame and money. Good, ethical scientists exist! Give them a movie deal, damn! Anyway, here’s a quick run-down on the Stanford Prison Experiment and its many problems. I’m so excited this is in…
Leave a CommentWell LOOK, since Hollywood is évidemment out of the business of making teen rom-coms or even, it seems, rom-coms whatsoever, at least thank the Lord for YA authors stepping into the breach. In a world where the news is the news and nobody has yet financed a Man from U.N.C.L.E. sequel, at least I got to read Amy Spalding’s new YA novel The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles), the cutest sweetest teen rom-com that I have laid my eyes on since When Dimple Met Rishi. Abby knows that she’s a sidekick. Queer fat girls…
Leave a CommentCome my own ones, come my fair ones, come now unto me, would you fancy a new podcast that has just come from WELL NOT REALLY THE SEA but for the sake of the rhyme. It’s Podcast Wednesday, and Whiskey Jenny is back and y’all maybe (maaaaaaaaaaaaybe) missed her almost as much as I did! We resume rereading Lord of the Rings, get slightly heated on the topic of Goldberry, chat about the summer books we’re looking forward to, and review (kinda) Hiromi Kawakami’s The Nakano Thrift Shop. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or…
Leave a CommentAll right, I am sufficiently settled into my new status as Short Story Advisor that I have decided to give this monthly feature a proper name. I am calling it Shortly Ever After, with thanks to the writers and editors of Lady Business for naming assistance, and I will never stop doing it until you pry it from my cold dead hands because I’m all about short stories now and that is just my life. Next month I’m going to have a DAMN LOGO, that’s how serious I am about my newfound short story obsession. (Never before has a New…
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