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Advisors, parents, and students react to possible school closures in San Francisco. Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a triple-threat artist. And, an intimate story about a widow, a daughter, and a friend.

On this week's episode of "Sights & Sounds," comedian Baruch Porras-Hernandez gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

It's not every day you're swept off your feet by a handsome stranger on the subway. But when Baruch Porras-Hernandez rides Muni, anything can happen. We were thrilled to have Baruch back on the Muni Diaries Live stage in November with the story of a fleeting romance from his past, and the unexpected turn it takes. Baruch is a writer, performer, and standup comedian who's done storytelling shows all over California. He's won the Moth in LA, headlined at About Last Night, is a three-time winner of Best of Bawdy, and won first place at Oakland's Story Showdown. You can hear more stories from Baruch on the Muni Diaries podcast in Episode 43 and Episode 70. Have a Muni story you'd to share? Email us your pitch at muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com. Photo by Emily Huston

Today, we learn about what happens when a park is constructed on stolen land. What the history of one East Bay park can tell us about borders, access, and equity. Then we speak with writer and performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez about body positivity and being queer. And, we'll hear a reading from San Mateo author Lee Kravetz.

On this week's episode of Sights & Sounds, writer, organizer, and comedian Baruch Porras-Hernandez gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

Today's episode was recorded live on January 24th, 2022. We begin the show with a stacked open mic, before our two amazing headliners. First, is Sister Unity, a gay orange Hindu drag nun and one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with whom she has corrupted the corrupt and upheld Queer dharma for the last 26 years. Then, we have Baruch Porras-Hernandez, who has featured and competed in Poetry Slams all over the country, and in Montreal, Canada! He is a queer gay Mexican living in San Francisco who runs the Latinx variety literary showcase “Donde Esta Mi Gente?” often sponsored by KQED!

Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a comedian, artist, and poet. A fan of donuts. Author of Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle and I Miss You Delicate. We both share the same last name and we try to figure out if were actually related. You can follow him on twitter & Instagram. @baruchporrashernandez - instagram @baruchisonfire - twitter Por*Ass Podcast Theme Song by Inappropriate Things www.veecomedy.com @porasspodcast - Instagram & Twitter Venmo: @BMERecovery For a personal video message from me get me on Cameo! - search Veronica Porras https://www.cameo.com/veeporras paypal me at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/VeronicaPorras --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/porasspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/porasspodcast/support

Juicy and cbpotter exchange glances with Baruch Porras-Hernandez (writer, illustrator, comedian @baruchisonfire) as we explore his dark, seedy, sex positive, underbelly. Rename those schools, Texas Ice Storm Massacre, Thots on Fire! We consent for you to follow and leave a review!

Featuring, Baruch Porras-Hernandez!  The man responsible for All The Answers theme song drops a new album MC INFINITE - CRITICAL MINDED. Check It Out!!! ATA theme song rapped by - Versoul! We have passed the future, the movies we grew up on didn’t happen. Katie has some more notes for her podcasting self. Baruch comes on the show and reminds straight guys that not every gay man is trying to fuck you.  He has some poetry for us to enjoy and then talks about not being spiritual while talking about his spirituality guiding him, or maybe his Mom is a witch, you decide. No time to get to the Records this week, the record keepers leave this one to our mere 3 dimensions. Enjoy!  Katie Rubin .com (https://www.katierubin.com/)   FB/IG/T @allanswerspod or write directly to allanswerspod@gmail.com (mailto:allanswerspod@gmail.com) and maybe Katie will answer your question through the Akashic Records.  Join the facebook community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/371989500646765/) for great conversations with like minded individuals.  Thanks for the listens and support, Please Rate/Review and tell a friend. 

The lovely and hilarious Baruch Porras-Hernadez is in the house with big sparkly Aquarius energy. We talk about his journey from actor to performance poet and comedian, healing familial toxic masculinity, and how to joyfully make a living as an artist. We also get some pointers on Zoom theater as we hear about how he staged his solo show, “Love in the Time of Piñatas,” in his bedroom. And there’s a special sneak peak at the team of Queer Latinx superheroes that will be coming soon to save the world! And if that’s not enough excitement and intrigue for you, stick around for Sarah and Emily’s thoughts on pandemic braining and how, er, hopeful (?) they are now that good ole Uncle Joe is for realsies the prez. KEEP UP with BARUCH https://baruchporrashernandez.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @ baruchisonfire Instagram: baruchporrashernandez Featured poems are “The Trees, They Hate the Birds the Most” and “Oh the Places You Will Go, Fearing for Your Life, While People Do Drugs” by Baruch Porras-Hernadez, courtesy of the artist. GUEST BIO Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, professional MC/Host, curator, stand up comedian, and the author of the chapbooks “I Miss You, Delicate” and “Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle” both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer poetry tour in 2019, is a is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a regular host of literary shows for KQED, and was named a Writer to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine. His poetry can be found with Write Bloody Publishing, The Tusk, Foglifter, Assaracus and many more. He has been an artist in residence at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and Playwriting. He’s been featured in shows with The Rumpus, Writers with Drinks, has performed several times with Radar Productions, LitQuake, and Quiet Lightning. His solo show “Love in the Time of Piñatas” got a clapping man from the SF Chronicle and was performed to sold-out houses at Epic Party Theatre in December of 2019. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series, he is an immigrant originally from Mexico, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. He lives in San Francisco.

Republican Lesbians, Anal Covid Test, Rita Moreno and mucho more Latinx Virtual performance NEWS with Marga and Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Mateo Hurtado and Suni Reyes. Catch their LIVE STREAMS Saturday October 24th. "Love in The Time Of Piñatas" (PCS.ORG) and "Disco" on Mateo's Facebook page. If you like the show please subscribe and give me some stars por favor. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marga-gomez/message

Cutting-edge poetry and visuals from both coasts, on the theme of "You, Me, and Everyone In Quarantine." From the depths of their shelter-in-place, these writers will perform their literary hearts out for you! With SevanKele Boult, Wo Chan, Katie Fricas, Irene McCalphin aka Magnoliah Black, and Preeti Vangani. Curated and hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. Books are available from your favorite indie bookstores, or order from bookshop.org!

Dick Van Dyke's British Accent invites you to experience the reunion episode of Shipwreck in the comfort of your earholes. We invite seven formerly dignified writers to take on adult characters from P.L. Travers's series of novels about haunted nannies and talented *ahem* chimney sweeps. Does Mrs. Banks have a first name? And what the heck's a "matchman" anyhow? Can and should you absolutely still be shopping at Booksmith on its website booksmith.com and enjoying free shipping in San Francisco? Join us to find out. Stories from Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Joe Wadlington (as Jeananne Tonic), Amanda Rosenberg, Molly Sanchez, Michael Howley, Kirstie Haruta, and Alan Leggitt. Stories read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. 

It's BYO cocaine to endure the Misery of the very last monthly Shipwreck show. We Cujoled seven of San Francisco's best writers to compete On Writing so that one might emerge The Shining winner of Shipwreck. Whose story will Carrie them to victory, and who will stay in The Dead Zone? Join us to learn the answers to It. Stories by Justin Lucas, Corin Chellberg, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Joe Wadlington, Charlotte Hollingsworth, Michael Howley, and Jamie Real. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. 

Break out the Cutty Sark and jump in the nearest well: it's time for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. We take four humans and two animals from Murakami's most iconic book and assign them to six writers tasked with the impossible: creating even weirder sex scenes than the ones in the book. Is naming yourself Malta better or worse than saying 'the loo' after your year abroad? Is Toru the most boring person in all of literature? Will there be weird asides about spaghetti and the war? Turn on, tune in, and mope out.Stories from Danielle Truppi, Sarah Blake, Corin Chellberg, Calvin Albright, Christina Ortega, and one anonymous donor. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Hey Whalers, and welcome back aboard The Good Ship Wreck, where we take on possibly the only book with more penis jokes than an episode of this show. We'll talk whale facts, take that smarmy Captain Ahab down a peg, and confess our sincere, unabashed love for this truly unhinged tale of whale vengeance and smokin' hot platonic love. To put it in Melville's own words: “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”With stories from Ash Fisher, Corin Chellberg, Louis Evans, Brian Troutwine, Rebecca Rubenstein, and Ali Meza. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. Ballot art by Katie Morton.

a.k.a. ‘babykillers’ and ‘my little burrow bois’ Happy 69th episode of Drunk Safari, pals! We celebrated by having special guest BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ on to talk about bunnies and turtles, bc we LOVE YOU and we LOVE BARUCH and so this is our gift to you, the listener, on this the 69th episode of our show.  Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Baruch on Twitter Baruch on Instagram for dick drawings Amy Stephensen's Episode  Casey Childers' Episode I Miss You, Delicate by Baruch Porras-Hernandez Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle by Baruch Porras-Hernandez Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter

Wayne Goodman in conversation with Baruch Porras-Hernandez, poet, artist, stand-up comedian, host of open-mike comedy, and head organizer for ¿Donde Está Mi Gente?

Storyteller Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, host, storyteller, and regular KQED community events host based in San Francisco. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry and regularly organizes poetry shows in the Bay Area. In today's story, Baruch shares an exchange that he had with a visitor while working at one of the longest running gay sex clubs in San Francisco. Upon realizing that the visitor was having a hard time in our city, Baruch encourages him give San Francisco a second try.  Please note that this story has themes about suicide if this topic may be triggering for you. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals: 1-800-273-8255.

Hey hunnys. If Disney can make Christopher Robin look like a horror film, we can make the Pooh Forest universe into an orgy. After all, as Pooh himself famously said, "You don't spell [love]...you feel it." So let's feel it together, with thanks to Meg Elison, Lauren Parker, Maia Jannele, Joe Wadlington, Sarah Manolis, and The Horrible Heffal-hump. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Sexual tension, heavy drinking, sensitive characters, intolerable heat, and it all ends in madness? Yep, sounds like Shipwreck. Thanks to Anand Vedawala, Spencer Tierney, Mel Burke, Alan Leggitt, Kelly Anneken, and Joe Wadlington for helping us take ol' Tennessee "Best Play Ever" Williams down a peg. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

[TK] Featuring the writing of Jared Schwartz, Joe Wadlington, Chris Philpot, Stephanie Smith, Adriana Vazquez, and Stephanie Lacy-Price. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

The main thing that Shipwreck and The Sun Also Rises have in common is that they render sex thoroughly unappetizing and deeply frightening for all parties involved. We hope Sebastian Sangervasi, Adriana Vazquez, Kirstie Haruta, Vivienne Pustell, and Corin Chellberg are enjoying their hangovers from our Pamplona vacation. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

You would think that removing the children from A Wrinkle in Time would improve it considerably, but unfortunately that means you're left with religious overtones, a bunch of witches who think they're better than you, and a general sense of being disappointed by your parents. With thanks to Annalee Newitz, Yona Malone, Lily Miller, Molly Sanchez, and Sarah Lyn Rogers for tesser-acting in good faith. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

[Extreme movie trailer narrator voice] Imagine a world that revolves around the specific basic mainstream garbage entertainment that one white dude likes. Shipwreck reams up with Komedio SF to present Ready Player Fun! just in time for the movie release. Jump in the DeLorean with Kristee Ono, Stephen Ku, Tirumari Jothi, Thomas Paras, Marc Abrigo, and Molly Sanchez. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

We here at Shipwreck can't resist a faux-rogueish manchild. Sneak off to the garden with Tina LeCount Myers, Zoe Young, Carson Beker, Sarah Lyn Rogers, Tessa Gregory, and Alan Leggitt as we make out with Jane Eyre at long last, just in time for Valentine's Day. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Immigration is a major theme in science fiction, both in subtext and straightforward plot arcs. Creators often tell stories about new arrivals on Earth from other worlds, other dimensions, and other timelines. Poet and performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez joins us to discuss what these stories say about the fears and aspirations of real-life immigrants. Can scifi help people accept neighbors from far away, or are we doomed to live in a world where mutants are exiled to distant islands?  

Are you tired of Earth? These people? Are you tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives? Join us on Mars to mope sexily about Watchmen, with the help of Charlie Jane Anders, Sarah Elizabeth Blake, Nick Baker, Claire Rice, Alan Leggitt, and Annie. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Let's oversimplify the French Revolution! Shipwreck goes #DeepDickens with A Tale of Two Cities, because Fanfic recognizes Fanfic. This month's fellow revolutionaries include Lily Miller, Mel Burke, Moon Choe, Diane Glazman, Claire Rice, and Meg Elison. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Writer Baruch Porras Hernandez talks shipping, slashing, and other ways readers make their fan-fiction sexy. Plus: * Acting skills for writers * Goths love Wuthering Heights * Literature as a competition * The need for queer heroes * Mexican comic book characters for the win! * How fans can improve canon works.  Shipwreck SF:  http://www.booksmith.com/shipwrecksf Iceman (Marvel comic) http://marvel.com/comics/series/23096/iceman_2017_-_2018 Read more about Baruch: https://baruchporrashernandez.wordpress.com/ Artgasm Patreon: http://patreon.com/artgasm  

Still the beating of your hideous heart: October was Shipwreck at it's Goth-est, as we presented a buffet of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories for your consumption. (See what we did there?) Forever sitting on the pallid busts of Pallas in our hearts are Sarah Elizabeth Blake, Meghan Trowbridge, Sarah Manolis, Kaeli Quick, Sang S. Kim, and Ken Grobe. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

This year's Stephen King extravaganza came one month early, to celebrate the 2017 movie adaptation of It. Get ready to ingest an alarming concoction of small town faux-quaintness, childhood horrors, and, most importantly, cocaine jokes. Featuring: Lily Miller, Jamie Leigh Real, India Sabater, Molly Sanchez, and Ken Grobe. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

a.k.a. ‘death stabbers’ and ‘invasive tree colonizers’ Special guest BARUCH PORRAS HERNANDEZ is here to ruin woodpeckers forever. We talk murder birds, monogamous rodents and unwelcome intrusions everywhere.  Show Notes Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Baruch on Twitter Baruch on Instagram for dick drawings One of those horrible videos Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter

This month we teamed up with the Bay Area's premier sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster to get our Shakespeare on. Join us in Fairyland for A Midsummer Night's (Wet) Dream with Amanda Rosenberg, Rinee Shah, The Bardi Twins, Ken Grobe, Sean Owens, Margaux Poupard, and Sam Bertken. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Hello, old chaps! It's our 50th show, so join us as we get zozzled in the classiest, most glamorous locale we can imagine: Long Island. Pinch some hooch and get a wiggle on with these hotsy-totsy sarcasts as they razz the The Great Gatsby. This month's Real McCoy's: Andrea Grimes, Lauren Parker, Miles Klee, Madeline Gobbo, Molly Sanchez, and Ms. P. And how! Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Greetings, Merry Pornsters! For the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Shipwreck writes fanfiction about Tom Wolfe's Summer of Love fanfiction epic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with some generation-defining work by Lauren Parker, Kendra McPhee, Meg Elison, Julia Wilde, Chase Kamp, and the Cummer of Love. Hop on the bus. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Enjoy our episode dedicated to IFC’s Garfunkel and Oates featuring Baruch Porras-Hernandez. We talk sex clubs, ukulele music, and the need for dude butts on tv. Watch the pilot here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80010828

This week's story is from our reigning Muni Haiku champion, Baruch Porras-Hernandez! You can see him at Muni Diaries Live on Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Elbo Room. Tickets are at munidiarieslive18.eventbrite.com Baruch tells a story of taking a visiting friend on her first Muni ride, promising that nothing will go wrong. And if you've been on Muni at all, you know that's a hard promise to keep. Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer, performer and standup comedian, named one of the 13 Top Bay Area Writers to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine in San Francisco. He’s been featured in Writers with Drinks, has performed several times with Radar Productions, LitQuake, and is a winner of Literary Death Match, Write Club, The Moth, and of course, Muni Diaries. 

In April we got a little too on the nose with 1984. Sexy contraband care of India Sabater, Jared Schwartz, Kaeli Quick, Natalie Warner, Lily Miller, and Moon Choe. All fic read by notorious collaborator Baruch Porras-Hernandez

It's hard to believe we've all pretty much forgotten about Disney's horrifying Beauty and the Beast reboot, but back in March it was all anyone was talking about. Anyway, we did a show on the subject with gross takes by Joe Wadlington, Sarah Manolis, Kamala Puligandla, Persephone Karnstein-Wieland, Meghan Trowbridge, and Lily Miller—all read by national treasure Baruch Porras-Hernandez. Sorry.

In February of 2017 we "wandered the moors," so to speak, with Lily Miller, Amanda Rosenberg, Ms. P, Ivan Hernandez and Leah Reich. Things got molderingly sexy, as you might imagine. Ghost sounds by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Back in January we set our sights on that testament of quality American living and animal husbandry that is Little House on the Prairie. Doling out glimpses of frontier romance were our guest writers Hope Waggoner, Tirumari Jothi, Tess Barry, Michael Howley, Meg Trowbridge, and Daphne Gottlieb. Horse sounds by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

December, 2016 we saddled up with our buddy Victor Hugo and talk-sung our way through a life of crime. Stories by Meghann Hayes, Kelly Anneken, Pam Benjamin, Rebecca Rubenstein, Michael Howley, Danny Nguyen. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Look out below, it's Shipwreck's fourth annual Stephen Kingtober...vember. This year we tackled Pet Sematary, a gross tale of grief and what have you. Stories by Amanda Rosenberg, Lauren Wheeler, Kathy Ames, Elaine Gavin, Jamie L. Real, and Nicole Love. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Epigraph On this episode we becomes best friends with Amy Stephenson, Events Director at Booksmith in San Francisco and co-creator/host of Shipwreck, a competitive literary erotic fan fiction live show. This episode is sponsored by Books & Whatnot, the newsletter dedicated to books, bookselling, and bookish folk. We were too excited about hosting Books on the Nightstand to mention Books & Whatnot on air, but you should definitely check out the newsletter archive here. Follow Books & Whatnot on Twitter at @booksandwhatnot. Introduction In Which We Discuss Sad Sociology Books and Amy’s Twitter Life Coach, and Furiously Take Notes On the Books We’re Recommending Each Other (but oh wait look, show notes!) We’re drinking Manhattans—Amy’s go-to, “I’m fancy on a Friday night” drink—and making jokes about robotripping. We’re Reading: Amy is reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (and Kim & Emma are SO excited) and Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin. Kim is reading Necessary Trouble by Sarah Jaffe, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, and The Revenge of Analog by David Sax—which is her favorite book of 2016. Emma is reading My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris (out from Fantagraphics Feb 14) and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.  Also mentioned: Shirley Jackson’s memoir(ish) essay collections Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons and the new biography on Jackson, Shirley Jackson: a Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin. She recommends all the Shirley Jackson book. Because Shirley Jackson is a #bosswitch Emma’s favorite book of 2016 is Trainwreck by Sady Doyle. Amy’s is Evicted by Matthew Desmond (paperback out Feb 28). If Kim were allowed to pick two favorites, her other favorite would be While the City Slept by Eli Sanders (paperback out Feb 7). We’re Excited About: Amy is looking forward to so many books in 2017, but, when pressed, narrowed it down to these six: All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg (out March 7) All the Lives I Want: Essays about My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey (out Feb 7) Alana Massey is Amy’s “Twitter life coach,” so you should probably follow her too: @alanamassey The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn (out April 11) Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki (out May 9) And We’re Off by Dana Schwartz (out May 2)  Dana Schwartz is also the creator of Guy In Your MFA. Amy says, “She’s so talented it makes me angry.” Emma is excited about Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (out Feb 14) Seriously. Read this book. It’s his debut novel and it’s amazing. Or listen to the record-breaking audiobook. What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America edited by Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians  shout out to Melville House for putting this out with a quickness. Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller the cover is done by the amazing painter Lee Price. And Kim is looking forward to The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker because she’s pretty sure it’s queer. Chapter I [19:50] In Which We Discuss How Kids Book Authors Write The Best Erotic Fan Fic, Dick Jokes, and Shipwreck in Seattle Amy works at Booksmith in San Francisco, California. She is their Events Director, does all their social media, and is their de facto HR dept. Because bookstores.  Booksmith recently celebrated their 40th anniversary and they’re opening a new store called The Bindery—a sort of wine bar/living room space/events annex—across the street. Amy is also the co-creator and host of Shipwreck, “a competitive literary erotic fan fiction live show,” which began in June 2013 and runs once a month at Booksmith (and sometimes travels to Comic Cons). They record ALL the shows so you can enjoy crazy dick jokes from the comfort of your own headphones. They were inspired by the competitive reading series Write Club, which also has  a podcast! Shipwreck is such an amazing concept, that Grand Central Publishing wanted to collect the stories in a book: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck edited by Amy Stephenson and Casey A. Childers Hey, Seattleites, does this sound awesome? You too can enjoy live erotic fan fiction at Emerald City Comic Con this year on March 2nd. The line-up includes:  Seanan McGuire (whose most recent book is Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day and who wrote for the very first Shipwreck) Peter Mountford (author of The Dismal Science) Scott Westerfeld (who has a graphic novel called Spill Zone coming out May 2nd)  Matt Fraction (who writes Sex Criminals, so you know his erotic fanfic will be excellent).  They’ll be writing fan fiction for Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comics. And their San Francisco performer, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, will be reading for both shows. Buy tickets here. There will be two shows, one at 7pm and another at 9:30pm. BONUS: we, the Drunk Booksellers, will be there selling books and representing Elliott Bay Book Co. Chapter II [40:00] In Which We Reveal Bookseller Secrets and Are Super Supportive of Each Other The book description guaranteed to get Amy reading is: “strong female character written by a women involved in a murder somehow and you won’t believe the twist… bathtub gin reading.” If you need a gateway mystery, Amy recommends Tana French, specifically The Likeness. Her desert island pick is The Comedians by Graham Greene because she already reads it every year. Her Station Eleven pick (aka the world is falling apart, which it kind of is) is Erich Fromm: The Sane Society (NOTE: this is still in print, despite what we say in the episode) and On Disobedience by Eric Fromm Her Wild pick: something Didion “because Didion teaches you how to see the world.”  Bonus bookseller confession: neither Kim or Emma have read Didion. So where do you start with Didion? If you want to read something that’s going to make you cry: The Year of Magical Thinking If you want astute cultural commentary: Slouching Towards Bethlehem Amy’s bookseller confession: she can’t get into Ferrante Go to handsells: Tana French Margaret Atwood’s contemporary fiction: Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride Fred Vargas, who writes police procedurals that are weirdly witty, funny, and entertaining; her newest book, A Climate of Fear is out March 7th go to non-fiction: A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres (who also wrote a memoir called Jesus Land The book Amy wants to champion to other booksellers: Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Griffin, which she describes as “a modern, feminist telling of Frankenstein, sort of” Chapter III [50:40] In Which Our List of Bookstores to Visit and Sites to Check Out Grows Almost As Long As Our List of Books to Read Bookstore Crushes WORD Bookstores  (in Brooklyn, NY and Jersey City, NJ)  Skylight Books (in Los Angeles, CA) Title Wave Books (in Anchorage, AK) Favorite Literary Media: website:  Book Riot—“I think they’re doing the lord’s work out there.” podcasts: Let’s Not Panic: podcast by bookseller Maggie Tokuda-Hall who is spending the year traveling around South America in a Jeep with her husband Adam Wolf. WARNING: it will make you want to quit your job and travel the world. Boars, Gore, and Swords: Game of Thrones-y pop culture podcast by stand-up comics Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott other: Alana Massey’s twitter @alanamassey Maris Kreizman’s tinyletter Drafts, a writing prompt newsletter by Joe Wadlington you can send him what you’ve written and he’ll send you back validation. How awesome is that?? Epilogue [56:39] Amy can be found on the internet as @losertakesall​—a Graham Greene reference, in case you were curious. her personal website Twitter Tumblr Instagram You can also follow Shipwreck on Tumblr and Facebook. And keep up with ALL the hilarity and eroticism by subscribing to their podcast. Having a bad day? Listen to an old episode. Mood = instantly transformed. You can find us on Twitter at @drunkbookseller and everywhere else as DrunkBooksellers (plural). Emma tweets @thebibliot and writes bookish things for Book Riot. Kim tweets occasionally from @finaleofseem, but don’t expect too much.

To celebrate the San Francisco release of our anthology, Loose Lips, we invited Cecil Baldwin to read Princess Bride erotica to a few hundred of our closest friends. Featuring the writing of Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Michelle Threadgould, Baruch Porras Hernandez, Jane Harrison and Muffin McCue. With apologies to your childhood.

Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Sovereign Syre and Graham Isador share stories of relationships that became identity crises.

Listen: we asked six fantastic writers to muck up Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in the pursuit of cheap thrills, free will, and maybe even a little agency. It happened, more or less. Providing the words were Madeline Gobbo, Lauren Parker, Tara Marsden, Melissa Tan, Meg Elison, and so on. Providing the musical voice: Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Just in time for Halloween, it's Shipwreck's third annual Stephen Kingtober. This year we tackled The Master's short story cum short novel about the rigors of adult onset puberty. Hurling sanitary napkins in the locker room: Virgie Tovar, Meg Elison, Spencer Bainbridge, Jessica Lachenal, Na'amen Tilahun, and Lily Miller. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

We spliced everyone's favorite book about dinosaur mating and the woeful inadequacy of human foresight when balanced againced potential profitability with frog DNA and bing-bang-boom: hello dinosaur porn. Your guides to this island of earthly delights: Molly Rosen, Sean Kennedy, Christopher Wieland, Chase Kamp, Rebecca Rubenstein, and John William. All fic performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

This episode is a trifle, really, a pastoral meditation on the loveways of Civil War-era monied poor. Gather round the hearth, dear listeners, for the masterful prose of Pickwick Club members Lauren Parker, John William, Ferocity Prose, Louis Evans, and Kitty Stryker. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

This podcast is perfect. It's so perfect that we fear we will never be as perfect as this podcast is in this moment. It will go on forever, poised in its eternal youth, while we piss away our lives with yellow books and opium dens and gradually become twisted, unrecognizable grotesqueries of our former selves. We hate this podcast. We wish Joe Wadlington, Alan Leggitt, Sarah Stanton, Matthew Verus, and their mysterious associate had never existed. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

This episode of Shipwreck is so good it sparkles in the sunlight. That's right, the book that sparked the world's favorite proto-BDSM fanfic for the sexually repressed: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. Joshua Redel, Rebecca Rubenstein, Joe Wadlington, Na'amen Tilahun, Lauren O'Neal, and an anonymous figure watch you while you sleep. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Finally, and at long last: Shipwreck goes Randian with Ayn's doorstop paean to libertarianism and specious causality. Doff your top hat, light a cigar, and raise a flute of Dom to Atlas Shrugged. Featuring gold-encrusted pastiche from The Walnut, Wonder Dave, Kamala Puligandla, Natalie Warner, Joe Wadlington, and an anonymous lord of industry. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.