Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling

It’s episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, and more!

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In this episode

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
• Time Machine 2: Search For Dinosaurs and David Bischoff
• Inheritance by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn
  • Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer
• Bats of the Republic by Zachery Thomas Dodson
• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
• Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen
  

Other Media We Mentioned

• Choose Your Own Adventure
• S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
• Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Frances Burney
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
• A Void/La Disparition by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Detroit: Become Human
  • Talking Simulator — Detroit: Become Human
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  • “I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.”
• Wanted: Dead
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
• Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
• Blue Prince
• Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel by Antony Johnston
• The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction
• Oulipo
• Reddit threads
• Books with experimental or unusual formats - multiple illustrations, combination of mediums, alternating structure etc
• Any books with unconventional or creative storytelling formats/structures you'd recommend?
• List of sandwiches
• Architecture student writes 149-page thesis without punctuation

15 Non-Traditional Storytelling 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.

• Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse by Ana Castillo
• Inheritance: A Pick-the-Path Experience by Darrell Dennis, Medina Hahn, and Daniel Arnold 
• The Girl I Am, Was, And Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
• The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
• Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds with art by Jason Griffin
• Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq with art by Jaime Hernandez
• Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon with art by Frank Yoon
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
• Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell 

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