Episode 181 - Summer 2023 Media Update

This episode it’s time for our Summer 2023 Media Update! We talk about chairs, orangutans, weird music, and 17 novellas! Plus, lots more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media & Things we Talked About 

• Meghan
  • Graphic Novels
    • L'Esprit du camp by Cab, Michel Falardo
    • Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, coloured by Muntsa Vicente
    • Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge
  • Looking at Stuff
    • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
    • A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz (illustrator)
    • Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John R. Stilgoe
  • Novellas
    • Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire
    • The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo
    • Voidwitch Saga by Corey J. White
• Matthew
  • Ducks by Kate Beaton
  • Weird Music
    • Venjent - Flowin' with the Vibe
    • Venjent - Tapping Away
    • Venjent - Create Machines
    • Jacek Dzwonowsk - Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle
    • Boys Noize & Pussy Riot - "Chastity" feat. Alice Glass
      • “Put it in a dick cage”
  • Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)
• Jam
  • Captain Disillusion
    • Orangutan Card Trick DEBUNK
  • Corridor Crew
    • VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 57 (Ft. Captain Disillusion)
    • VFX Artists React to Amazing Movie Props With Adam Savage!
  • The Girl I Am, Was, and Will Never Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney
  • Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)
    • ‘Breath of the Wild’ is the Zelda Adventure I've Always Wanted by Austin Walker
• Anna
  • Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
  • LoadingReadyRun - Swap & Shop - Selling Edition
  • Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
  • Photos of chairs (on Matthew’s Instagram account)
  • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
    

18 Non-Fiction Military Books by BIPOC 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.

• Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds by Remi Adeleke
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati
• Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan
• Gabriel Dumont Speaks by Gabriel Dumont, translated by Michael Barnholden
• Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees by Yen Le Espiritu
• They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit by Ruben Gallego
• Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America by Truman K. Gibson Jr.
• Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
• Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism by Tom Holm
• Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War by Tom Holm
• Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes
• The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
• Duty, Honour and Izzat: From Golden Fields to Crimson - Punjab's Brothers in Arms in Flanders by Steven Purewal
• Call Me Chef, Dammit!: A Veteran’s Journey from the Rural South to the White House by Andre Rush
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk
• Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly
  

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 5th when we’ll be discussing the format of Lyric Poetry!

Then on Tuesday, September 19th it’s time for our One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey!