Podcasts about Metafiction

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   John Barth (1930-2024) John Barth (1930-2024), who died on April 2, 2024 at the age of 93, was America's leading writer of metafictional and post-modern fiction. This interview was conducted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff on November 12, 2001 in the KPFA studios, while on the book tour for the novel Coming Soon. John Barth began to receive notice for his two earliest novels, The Floating Opera and End of the Road in the late 1950s, but burst on the scene with his epic comic novel about colonial life in Maryland, The Sot-Weed Factor, and his allegory of the Cold War, set on a university campus, Giles Goat-Boy. His short story collection, Lost in the Funhouse and novella collection Chimera cemented his reputation as a writer of meta-fiction, as the stories zoom back on themselves and on the writing of those stories. From Wikipedia: “In his epistolary novel LETTERS (1979), Barth corresponds with characters from his other books. Later novels such as The Tidewater Tales (1987) and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991) continue in the metafictional vein, using writers as protagonists who interact with their own and other stories in elaborate ways. His 1994 Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera casts Barth himself as the protagonist who on a sailing trip encounters characters and situations from previous works.” After the 2001 interview, he continued to work in the same vein with a triptych of novellas, Where Three Roads Meet in 2005, interrelated short stories set in a retirement community, The Development: Nine Stories in 2008, and Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons in 2011. A, book of collected stories was released in 2015 and Postscripts (or Just Desserts): Some Final Scribbling came out in 2022. This interview was both the last interview conducted with Richard Lupoff as co-host, and the final interview recorded and edited on analog tape. This program was digitized and edited in July 2024 by Richard Wolinsky. Complete 46-minute Interview   Lorrie Moore is a celebrated short story writer and novelist. In this excerpt from an interview recorded April 8, 2014 while on tour for her collection, Bark, she discusses her writing and research process. Complete 40-minute Interview.   Review of “The Return”  a Golden Thread production at The Garret in ACT's Toni Rembe Theatre through August 24, 2025. The post August 14, 2025: John Barth, Master of Metafiction appeared first on KPFA.

In 2021, Jason Mott won the National Book Award for Hell of a Book. Now, he's out with a new novel called People Like Us, in which two Black writers navigate life in the United States in an era of gun violence. Mott says the book is loosely based on himself – and leans into the audience's tendency to conflate authors with the stories they write. In today's episode, Mott talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about his personal relationships with American identity, guns, and fiction.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In this episode, we take a closer look at Spike Jonze's Adaptation, exploring its unique narrative structure and the standout performances by Nicolas Cage, Chris Coooper, and Meryl Streep. We delve into the film's themes of creativity and identity, offering insights that both fans and newcomers will appreciate. Join us for a thoughtful conversation about this intriguing film and what makes it a significant work in contemporary cinema.

Start our Spike Jonze retrospective with "Being John Malkovich"! Discover how this 1999 classic challenges identity & reality through Jonze's unique vision.

In this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about games that include the player in its story and pick up the concept of the magic circle. Also featuring tutorial talk, deep invasions of privacy, and save data as a diary.

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Stefan Iversen discuss a story generated by artificial intelligence; more specifically, the story comes from the system operated by OpenAI, in response to the prompt: “please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief.” Stefan Iversen is Associate Professor in the School… Continue reading Episode 43: Jim Phelan & Stefan Iversen — OpenAI's “AI, Metafiction, and Grief”

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(May 2, 2025) Jeff Kramer is a former journalist whose new book is about a journalist who is writing a book about a jouranlist.

This is the first episode of Eminent Americans where I've had the pleasure of talking to both the subject of a published profile and the profile writer at the same time. Kevin LaTorre, a return guest on the show, recently wrote “The 6,069 Fictions of Justin Smith-Ruiu,” a long piece about philosopher and metafictionist Justin Smith-Ruiu. Or maybe Justin wrote it himself, appropriating Kevin's name and likeness as another one of his authorial alter-egos. Maybe “Kevin” doesn't even exist. I mean, I think he does, since I've talked to him before on zoom, and perused his digital profile, but what if he's just a gifted improviser who was hired by Justin to play Kevin on my podcast? What if the plan all along was to create a real-seeming “Kevin LaTorre” persona, with a fully fleshed out online profile, in order to add yet another layer of semi-unreality to the many layers of the Hinternet, Justin's vast and sprawling endeavor.This seems unlikely, given that “Kevin” and I don't even talk about Justin in our first podcast interview, but who knows? If you're going to create a plausible “Kevin LaTorre” in the world, then you need to have him doing plausibly Kevin LaTorre-esque things, like coming on my podcast to discuss his “faith,” the essayist “Jia Tolentino,” and “climate change.”Anyhoo — such are the questions one begins to ask oneself after one has spent more than a certain amount of time in Justin's world. The conversation, which I really enjoyed, is primarily about Justin and his Hinternet project. We also talk about the challenges that Kevin faced in profiling Justin, Justin's disillusionment with academia, and Justin's scooter accident of a few years ago, which marked a profound break in his life and career. And much, much more.Hinternet posts we discuss include (descriptors and parentheticals from Kevin)* His re-version story* His past audio-mixing history* This metafiction: "The Storyteller"* His case against euthanasia (by far, the most technoskeptic take I've read from him)* His case for pacifism (by far the most dissident-left stance he has, I think -- antiwar in a pro-war Democratic party)* His reflection on his post-2020 developments (where he uses the "old-time religion" of love which sums up plenty about him lately)The show notes, according to ChatGPT:

"When he was fifteen Fabian saw the film The 39 Steps, which had just come out. He liked to say that this film was a turning-point in his life. It was an epiphany for him. As he left the cinema he knew that he wanted to make films."   An excerpt from a new novel in which characters invent other characters, and events are both magical and real. What is authorship? Who's in charge here, anyway?  

  John Barth (1930-2024), who died on April 2, 2024 at the age of 93, was America's leading writer of metafictional and post-modern fiction. This interview was conducted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff on November 12, 2001 in the KPFA studios, while on the book tour for the novel Coming Soon. John Barth began to receive notice for his two earliest novels, The Floating Opera and End of the Road in the late 1950s, but burst on the scene with his epic comic novel about colonial life in Maryland, The Sot-Weed Factor, and his allegory of the Cold War, set on a university campus, Giles Goat-Boy. His short story collection, Lost in the Funhouse and novella collection Chimera cemented his reputation as a writer of meta-fiction, as the stories zoom back on themselves and on the writing of those stories. From Wikipedia: “In his epistolary novel LETTERS (1979), Barth corresponds with characters from his other books. Later novels such as The Tidewater Tales (1987) and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991) continue in the metafictional vein, using writers as protagonists who interact with their own and other stories in elaborate ways. His 1994 Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera casts Barth himself as the protagonist who on a sailing trip encounters characters and situations from previous works.” After the 2001 interview, he continued to work in the same vein with a triptych of novellas, Where Three Roads Meet in 2005, interrelated short stories set in a retirement community, The Development: Nine Stories in 2008, and Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons in 2011. A, book of collected stories was released in 2015 and Postscripts (or Just Desserts): Some Final Scribbling came out in 2022. This interview was both the last interview conducted with Richard Lupoff as co-host, and the final interview recorded and edited on analog tape. This program was digitized and edited in July 2024 by Richard Wolinsky.   The post John Barth (1930-2024), Master of Metafiction appeared first on KPFA.

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   John Barth (1930-2024), who died on April 2, 2024 at the age of 93, was America's leading writer of metafictional and post-modern fiction. This interview was conducted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff on November 12, 2001 in the KPFA studios, while on the book tour for the novel Coming Soon. John Barth began to receive notice for his two earliest novels, The Floating Opera and End of the Road in the late 1950s, but burst on the scene with his epic comic novel about colonial life in Maryland, The Sot-Weed Factor, and his allegory of the Cold War, set on a university campus, Giles Goat-Boy. His short story collection, Lost in the Funhouse and novella collection Chimera cemented his reputation as a writer of meta-fiction, as the stories zoom back on themselves and on the writing of those stories. From Wikipedia: “In his epistolary novel LETTERS (1979), Barth corresponds with characters from his other books. Later novels such as The Tidewater Tales (1987) and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991) continue in the metafictional vein, using writers as protagonists who interact with their own and other stories in elaborate ways. His 1994 Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera casts Barth himself as the protagonist who on a sailing trip encounters characters and situations from previous works.” After the 2001 interview, he continued to work in the same vein with a triptych of novellas, Where Three Roads Meet in 2005, interrelated short stories set in a retirement community, The Development: Nine Stories in 2008, and Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons in 2011. A, book of collected stories was released in 2015 and Postscripts (or Just Desserts): Some Final Scribbling came out in 2022. This interview was both the last interview conducted with Richard Lupoff as co-host, and the final interview recorded and edited on analog tape. This program was digitized and edited in July 2024 by Richard Wolinsky, and is heard in full for the first time.   Lorrie Moore is a celebrated short story writer and novelist. In this excerpt from an interview recorded April 8, 2014 while on tour for her collection, Bark, she discusses her writing and research process. Complete 40-minute Interview.   Review of “Collective Rage: A Play in 4 Betties” at Shotgun Players Ashby Stage through August 18, 2024.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. 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"Valentine Basilevich Glass, native of Vyborg, accountant in the bureau of administration of the Leningrad Parks of Culture and Rest, led a number of unrelated lives. Whereas most people were trapped by the web of Soviet bureaucracy, he reveled in its complexity and quirkiness, finding in the course of his work numerous loopholes which he impressed in his memory, an unconscious act much like anticipating an annoying scratch on a phonograph record."   Two very short stories about unusual men. Or are they stories about the culture? Or are they stories about you and me and the ways we make meaning? This episode may or may not have the answers. Also, have you ever broken the fourth wall?

I wrote a new book! It's called SO LET IT BE WRITTEN - A Wizards' Guide to Metafiction and my co-author Eric J. Millar returns to the ritual for a very meta discussion about metafiction, creativity, writing, and the multilayered magic we baked into this book. Get your copy today at: https://www.personisawake.com/so-let-it-be-written Or order direct at: Paperback: https://www.lulu.com/shop/eric-j-millar-and-devin-person/so-let-it-be-written-paperback/paperback/product-v8k6we4.html Hardcover: https://www.lulu.com/shop/eric-j-millar-and-devin-person/so-let-it-be-written-hardcover/hardcover/product-yvz46p8.html Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual Follow the Wizard on Instagram @personisawake

Bienvenidos una vez más La literatura para niños ha surgido con mucho auge en las últimas décadas. Hoy día existen un campo dedicado a la Literatura Infantil, se llevan a cabo conferencias y simposios dedicados a dicha literatura. En una de mis lecturas acerca de esta literatura me encontré con una publicación titulada Expresión y Comunicación y sus autores son Encarni Mateo Peñalver y Miguel Gómez Amorós. Estos autores nos hablan del papel importante que juega La Literatura infantil. Esta literatura tiene como objetivos principales lo siguiente: – Ser fuente de placer y diversión: el niño a través de la literatura aprende, disfruta y se entretiene. –Ser fuente de enriquecimiento personal: la literatura desarrolla la curiosidad, la creatividad y la imaginación a través de sucesos, personajes y diversas situaciones, y estimula el hábito lector. – Ser un instrumento de comunicación y expresión: introduce el lenguaje, esencial para la socialización, proporciona modelos para imitar, facilita la vivencia de diferentes roles, amplía el vocabulario, muestra los patrones del lenguaje hablado y escrito y ofrece al niño la posibilidad de expresar su mundo interior. Por ultimo – Acercar el niño al mundo que le rodea: permite al niño conocer las características culturales y los valores del contexto social. Dentro de esta literatura se encuentran los libros ilustrados. Estos libros son excelentes fuentes para que los niños participen en conversaciones que surgen en sus entornos. Temas como la empatía, la añoranza, se pueden entender mejor si tenemos un cuento con ilustraciones. Estas ilustraciones pertenecen al lenguaje visual. Un lenguaje que todos deberíamos de conocer. Estor ilustradores o artistas visuales nos narran a través del color y las formas la historia, pero en un lenguaje accesible. Todo esto es un preámbulo para decirles acerca de la exposición que se inauguró el pasado viernes 3 de mayo en el Eric Carle Museum. Esta exposición titulada Pictures at Play: Metafiction in Art. Metaficción es ficción sobre ficción—libros que contienen ilustraciones acerca de ilustraciones e historias sobre historias. Estas ilustraciones aparte de ser hermosas son parte importante de libros ilustrados. En estos libros ilustrados podemos ver el elemento sorpresa o el elemento de continuidad mediante la ilusión óptica o podemos ver que en la ilustración el narrador de la historia eres tú u otro personaje que no ves hasta el final. En esta exposición participan una serie de ilustradores como Raúl Colon, Yuyi Mórales entre otros. Esta exposición estará acompañada por una extraordinaria programación de eventos. Para más información visite la página del museo. Una vez más muchísimas gracias y será hasta la próxima.

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Help! We're trapped inside this podcast and we can't get out! Just kidding, that didn't happen to us. It happened to our friend. Or did it...? This week, the squad attempts to untangle the complexities of Catriona Ward's latest novel, Looking Glass Sound. We spend a good chunk of the podcast nailing down the plot, but we also find time to discuss the merits of stories within stories, watery books, and, obviously, gay stuff. If you feel like you can explain any of this better than we did, please drop us a line at thesquad@booksquadgoals.com, and if you're not all Christmased out, check out Emily's 12 Days of Christmas Movies series on the blog! Stay tuned for our upcoming othersode on our favorite things of 2023 (1/9), and read Biography of X by Catherine Lacey to prep for our next bookpisode (1/23) which will also feature an interview with Emily Austin, author of Interesting Facts About Space. Happy (???) New Year!TOC:30 - Unhinged milk conversation3:55 - Actual welcome & intro question9:49 - Dog advice11:30 - Goodreads summary (featuring a mistake)14:25 - Remembering what happened in this book16:55 - Establishing basic plot points27:26 - When things start to spiral36:40 - The “present” of the book47:30 - Witchcraft?51:02 - Stories within stories - do these work?56:00 - Catriona Ward's other books that we're obsessed with1:01:08 - Gay stuff!1:06:30 - The setting and wet books1:10:50 - Character specifics and humor1:14:21 - Emily's ONE critique1:19:00 - Ratings1:26:45 - Listener feedback1:33:10 - What Emily wrote for the blog1:40:00 - What's next on the pod

This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by  Sitting Under The Shade Of Another Tree edited by Matthew Distefano and Keith Giles. Published by Quoir and available now.In this episode we chat with David GilesDavid Giles shows an interest in the little moments of life. Inspired by the slow cinema of Tarkovsky, and the ambient music of Brian Eno, Giles understands that people are not just their highs and their lows, but also all of their day-to-day errands. David was the recipient of the William Shanebeck Award for Excellence in Creative Writing (2020) and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, There Once Were Orange Groves, is available now on Amazon from Quoir Publishing.You can follow David on:Facebook     InstagramYou can purchase There Once Were Orange Groves on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      Twitter     TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Linktree for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest     The New Evangelicals     Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly FaithJonathan Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our StoriesEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you're thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!

"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, is hailed as the first modern novel. A unique blend of humor, tragedy, and critique nestled within a meta-narrative on chivalry and storytelling. Jay reflects on the enduring relevance of Don Quixote's adventures through the lens of modern fan fiction and intellectual property debates. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2023/11/04/301-2336-why-don-quixote-is-so-great/ Support the show!  Subscribe to the zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo

Prepare for an unsettling cinematic experience as "Funny Games" (2007) defies conventional horror tropes, weaving a disturbing tale of psychological terror and unnerving realism. This chilling masterpiece challenges the audience's comfort zone, leaving them questioning the very nature of human cruelty long after the credits roll.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5621141/advertisement

For everyone who's ever cast a pod, there comes a time to kill it. But what happens when that podcast doesn't want to stay dead? Thought you'd get through this summer without a scare? Well, too bad! The Summer of Scares is here, and it's more powerful than it's ever been before... Kill the Podcast. Written and directed by Sarah Palm. Voice talent in this episode: Andrew Soucek, Erik Bergstrom, J. Garrett Mitchell, Sarah Palm, Dustin Riccio, Zach Marion, Katie Wickline, Jules Schrader, and Tim Gilmore. You can find & subscribe to our show on iTunes, Google Play, or anywhere else you stream your podcasts. We're on social media, @unexpectedshow on Twitter and @theunexpectedpodcast on Facebook. You can also find out what we're up to on our website, www.theunexpectedpodcast.com.

If  this movie had been just a little more camp, or been a little more parodic, or a little more self aware, we could have gotten there. This week, we're joined by SCENE AND HEARD's hosts Jackie Postajian and Greg Kleinschmidt, to pick apart this much-lauded vehicle for Meryl Streep.Follow us on Letterboxd!Greg: https://letterboxd.com/gkleinschmidt/Jackie: https://letterboxd.com/jacpostaj/Victoria: https://letterboxd.com/vicrohar/Chelsea: https://letterboxd.com/chelseathepope/ Theme Music "A Movie I'd Like to See" by Al Harley. Show Art: Cecily Brown Follow the Show @freshmoviepod YouTube Channel abreathoffreshmovie@gmail.com Shop the Store: http://tee.pub/lic/bvHvK3HNFhk

In the world of Gunnhild Øyehaug's fiction, the mechanics of the short story are constantly being pulled apart and played with: characters we've followed on a bus turn out to be the inventions of the narrator on page four; an omniscient “analysis department” argues with the author about the validity of a story ending; Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil turn out to be real flowers growing by the side of the road and the cause of a woman's broken foot. But the magic of Øyehaug's latest collection, Evil Flowers, translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson, is how these subversions still manage to awaken us to the wonder of real, ordinary, corporeal life, whether our main character is a loner searching for connection on a travel forum or a girl who turns everything she touches into slime eels.Go beyond the episode:Gunnhild Øyehaug's Evil Flowers, translated by Kari DicksonRead “Nice and Mild,” from Knots, her first collection to be translated into EnglishCheck out her two novels, Present Tense Machine and Wait, Blink, adapted into the film Women in Oversized Men's Shirts (sadly only available in Norwegian)Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Stitcher • Spotify • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic?… read more »

A supercut of all season 1 episodes for convenient bingeing. George Orwell has rented a getaway cottage on a remote Scottish island to finish work on his groundbreaking novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unfortunately, he finds he's been double-booked with the last person he'd choose to take a holiday with—his annoying literary nemesis, H. G. Wells! An argument about the destiny of humanity and the right way to make a cup of tea escalates into an aeon-spanning adventure of time travel and political machination, as Orwell conspires with other classic dystopian science fiction authors to use Wells's time-travel technology to shape the world into the dark future of their own books. This omnibus episode includes all six main episodes of Untrue Stories' first season, plus its three bonus mini-episodes, two of which have been integrated into the main continuity and the third of which is included as a post-credit scene. The episodes are linked together with short music cues, leaving all the credits to the end. There have also been numerous improvements to audio quality, particularly in the earlier episodes. Episode 1: A Nice Cup of Tea (0:00:58—0:14:27)Episode 2: The Wheels of Chance (0:14:30—0:28:15)Episode 3: Battle Ground (0:28:19—0:33:21 and 0:34:58—0:40:06)Mini-episode #1: Evil George Orwell (0:33:20—0:34:59)Episode 4: How a Nation Is Exploited (0:40:09—0:56:17)Episode 5: Man Becomes a Different Animal (0:56:20—1:11:02)Episode 6: The Wonderful Visit (1:11:05—1:21:50 and 1:27:59—1:33:33)Mini-episode #2: Exile to Hell (1:21:51—1:27:58)Mini-episode #3: The Telescreen Programme: Newspeak Phrasebook (post-credit scene) (1:37:02—1:42:21)CAST: Robin Johnson as George OrwellPatrick Spragg as H. G. WellsJoanna Lawrie as Mrs WatchettTara Court as JuliaLiselle Nic Giollabháin as Captain RutherfordSimon Beck as Aldous HuxleyAlexander Walsh as Yevgeny Zamyatin, Isaac Asimov and the radio/telescreen announcerDavid Court as Ray BradburyAlex Noussias as Margaret AtwoodCanavan Connolly as Nebogipfel the MorlockRachel Pulliam as Ursula Le GuinEve Morris as the joycamp commander and Oldspeak interpreterAdditional voices by Robin, Eve and AlexanderSound effects were sourced from freesound dot org, and include sounds made by the users alecbark, anagar, caitlin-100, ccomics88, deleted-user-56114036, djgriffin, fabrizio84, fillsoko, floodmix, hasean, ikbenraar, inchadney, inspectorj, iwanplay, juanfg, katelyn100, keweldog, keithpeter, m1a2t3z4, mootmcnoodles, prim-ordial, panska-tlolkova-matilda, sin2xv0, sophielhall3535, soundsnapfx, timbre, vpp-2015, webbfilmsuk, and wlabarron.  Original music was by Robin Johnson. The Internationale (as used as accompaniment for Oceania, 'Tis For Thee) was a public domain recording by the Belinskogo Radio Orchestra. A transcript of this omnibus episode is available here. If you've enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you could help us amuse more people by telling your friends about us, and/or leaving us a rating or review on iTunes, Spotify, Podchaser, Goodpods or your favourite podcast site/app — thank you! Follow us on twitter: @untrue_storiesfacebook: untruestoriespodcastinstagram: untrue.storiessoundcloud: untrue-storiesIf you would like to help cover our costs, you can tip us at ko-fi.com/untruestories or buy Untrue Stories merch at our zazzle store. 14 September 2022: This episode has been updated to enhance audio.Robin can be contacted at robindouglasjohnson@gmail.com. Share and Enjoy! 

What happens when two giants of speculative fiction double-book a getaway cottage... A one-minute trailer for Season 1 of Untrue Stories, in which George Orwell and H. G. Wells argue about tea, go time travelling, and sort of accidentally-on-purpose overthrow western democracy. Includes material from episodes one through five. Untrue Stories is a comedy-drama sci-fi serial that puts its own surreal spin on classic science fiction. Written and produced by Robin Johnson. Starring Robin Johnson as George Orwell and the voiceover; Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells; Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett; Tara Court as Julia; Alexander Walsh as the BBC announcer and Isaac Asimov; Liselle Nic Giollabhain as Thought Captain Rutherford; and Canavan Connolly as the Morlock.  The music was composed and performed by Robin Johnson on kalimba, mountain dulcimer and electric bass, and sound effects were sourced from freesound.org (all effects used were released under a CC0 "no rights reserved" licence.)A transcript of this trailer is available here. If you enjoy the show, we'd love it if you could leave us a rating on iTunes, Spotify, Podchaser or your favourite podcast site/app — and tell your friends! Follow us on twitter: @untrue_storiesfacebook: untruestoriespodcastinstagram: untrue.storiessoundcloud: untrue-storiesIf you would like to help cover our costs, you can tip us at ko-fi.com/untruestories or buy Untrue Stories merch at our zazzle store. Robin can be contacted at robindouglasjohnson@gmail.com. Share and Enjoy!

DUM DUM DUM!!! 100 episodes!! We did it. We reached an utterly abstract threshold together guys and we are DELIGHTED to be here. I'm also delighted to welcome Paul Tremblay back to the show for a neat bit of circularity (as he was the one to kick things off way back in episode 1). Paul's new novel, The Pallbearer's Club came out just at the right time to make him the 100th guest. I'm convinced he planned it that way.It's a tale of weird adolescence, New England folklore, Punk Rock and loneliness. Sounds typically bleak right? Well it is, but it also has jokes, a heartwarming friendship and argumentative notes in the margins – so it's both a homecoming and a departure for Paul.We talk about his early desire to be a musician, his obsessions with misinformation, the art of fictionalising the truth, and the fear that inspires his uniquely uncanny set-pieces.Oh, and we also mention a certain film adaptation that may be in the works.Enjoy!The Pallbearers Club was published on July 5th by William Morrow and Titan BooksOther books discussed in this episode include: The Bus on Thursday (2018), by Shirley BarrettLunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton EllisA Confederacy of Dunces (1980), by John Kennedy TooleHouse of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. DanielewskiOur Share of Night (2023), by Mariana EnriquezSupport Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show

‘This cartoon will never end' In the seventy third episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, Eero Suoranta and I are saying Farewell, Doraemon (再见，哆啦A梦 / zàijiàn, duōlaAmèng). This is the second time a story by A Que has appeared on the show, and I feel that I now know the writer's soul: tender in spirit, thoughtful in action, of limpid and eerie atmosphere, and shy about everything except postmodern intertextual showmanship. Pass with us through a loop in time hidden in a lonely river, to drown in nostalgia (from the Greek nostos ‘return home' + algos ‘pain'). - // NEWS ITEMS // READ: a review of Zhang Yueran's Cocoon, tr. Jeremy Tiang WATCH: Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-garde, Metafiction and Post-postmodernism ATTEND: the Festival of Chinese Translation at Aberdeen Uni META NEWS: I'll be hosting an event on Empires of Dust - // WORDS OF THE DAY // (动画 - dònghuà - animation ) (90后 - jiǔ líng hòu - 90s kids) - // MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE // Eero's musical pairing: Moonmin Took My Head by Ritual Angus' musical pairing: Roads by Portishead Video CDs Cara Healey's theory of generic hybridity Flower of the Other Shore Ye Yonglie's Little Smarty Finnconn 2022 Sadan aaveen öinen paraati - Xia Jia's A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight, in Finnish - // Handy TrChFic Links // The TrChFic mailing list Episode Transcripts Help Support TrChFic The TrChFic Map INSTAGRAM // TWITTER // DISCORD // HOMEPAGE

It's a Spooko whodunnit! Join us (and an annoyingly unhelpful .pdf cheat sheet) to unmask the identity of the latest Ghostface(s).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Hilbig, author of Judgement Day and Other White Lies, is a punk rock academic fascinated by mythology and philosophy. He talks to us about getting an MFA, the nature of story, and why we might all be descended from drug addicted monkeys. Deep, but down to earth, this episode is guaranteed to get you thinking. Mike's Website: mikehilbigwriter.com Mike's Publisher, Madville Publishing: madvillepublishing.com

After last episode's mother of all chapters, we get a reprieve - a much shorter and  lighthearted chapter devoted to those weird genres of metafiction, deconstruction, and jazzing around (that last one we're pretty sure Gardner  made up.) While we do discuss Gardner's take, we mostly just have fun geeking out over our favorite examples of the genres. But, just when you think it's all congenial conversation, we come upon an eye-raising quote by Gardner, and once again, the knives come out.For our exercise, Renee shifts her memoir into poetry and we discuss the results.Want to hear more of our exercise workshop? We post the bonus podcast, SnarkNotes, and detailed write up of the exercises on our Words to Write by Patreon account.*Support this podcast on Patreon*

This episode we're talking about Adaptations! We discuss (the fictional) Junji Ito's Anne of Green Gables, The Muppets presents Dune the Musical, bad wigs in adaptations, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Appleberry Media We Mentioned Peter and the Wolf (Wikipedia) Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wikipedia) Spider-Man in film (Wikipedia) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wikipedia) Spider-Ham Spider-Verse (Wikipedia) Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series) (Wikipedia) Spider-Man (Japanese TV series) (Wikipedia) Spiders-Man (Wikipedia) The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien  The Lord of the Rings (film series) (Wikipedia) Lord of the Rings - trailer (YouTube) Harry Potter (film series) (Wikipedia) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - trailer (YouTube) Batman in film (Wikipedia) Spider-Men (Wikipedia) Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) (Wikipedia) Highlander (franchise) (Wikipedia) Frankenstein by Junji Ito Dune by Frank Herbert Dune (1984) - trailer (YouTube) Dune (2021) - trailer (YouTube) Muppet Treasure Island - trailer (YouTube) Muppet Christmas Carol - trailer (YouTube) The Music Man (Wikipedia) The Music Man - trailer (YouTube) The Princess Bride by William Goldman The Princess Bride - trailer (YouTube) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Wikipedia) Cassandra Cain (Wikipedia) Little Shop of Horrors - (Wikipedia) Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena Parasite Eve - video game (Wikipedia) The Witcher (Wikipedia) The Witcher (TV series) (Wikipedia) The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski The Lego Movie (Wikipedia) The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman  Golden Compass - trailer (YouTube) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis  Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - trailer (YouTube) BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei The Dark Tower (2017 film) (Wikipedia) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - trailer (YouTube) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - trailer (YouTube) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll  Alice in Wonderland - trailer (YouTube) You (TV series) (Wikipedia) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Twilight - trailer (YouTube) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia) Lovely War by Julie Berry The Illusionist  - trailer (YouTube) The Prestige - trailer (YouTube) Seven (1995 film) (Wikipedia) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Wikipedia) West Side Story (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Desert Bus Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows) The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End (BoardGameGeek) There are three different Pirates of the Caribbean version of the Game of Life Resource Description and Access (Wikipedia) Storm - X-Men character (Wikipedia) Mystique - X-Men character (Wikipedia) Five laws of library science (Wikipedia) “Every book its reader.” 18 Metafiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) 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 to help our listeners diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here. Insurrecto by Gina Apostol Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima by Hideo Furukawa Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour Hell of a Book by Jason Mott Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri The Friend by Sigrid Nunez The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Thrillers! Then on Tuesday, December 21st it's our Best Books we Read in 2021 episode!

The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. This episode features two metafiction stories from the radio program Lights Out, Murder in the Script Department from the 5/11/43 airing and The Coffin in Studio B from the 7/13/46 broadcast.

Ostensibly, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, is about a young man who finds a manuscript in a dead man's apartment. This experimental novel, released in 2000, takes a cinematic approach to the novel – creating a novel experience in time and space. The dead man, Zampano, was an elderly blind man writing an academic critique of The Navidson Record; a documentary about a family moving into a home in Virginia, which happens to be bigger on the inside. At the center of Danielewski's work is the question, “What is real?” How do humans interact with the space they inhabit? How do they interact with the stories around them? Featuring: Zenya Prowell, Stacy Patterson, Lisa Schweitzer, and Jen Bravo

In this episode, we talk about the popular Disney+ series, WandaVision. Dean wiggles his nose and magically finishes an entire turkey dinner, just in the to save the show. Trey grieves over the carbonite death of Han Solo, and Sarah brakes the universe. Hosted by Dean Karpowicz, with Trey Bourn and Sarah Willis. Content 0:22: What did we think of the show? "I loved it!" --Trey (who also loved grief, the Brady Bunch, and the way Dean delivered the outro of the show) 3:37: Waiting for New Episodes "I couldn't believe that such a beautiful line could come from a red android." --Sarah 10:00: WandaVision as Metafiction "I felt like I was doing the English teacher thing that my students think is crazy interpretation." --Dean 10:00: The Multiverse "We got to play the super fun game where we all try to guess who broke the universe." --Sarah (who broke the universe)

Hunks. Metafiction. Gilmore Girls. The operational aesthetic. Jenson Ackles gently barking. Jared Padalecki deeply tanned. In this Booyah, Rob and Joe talk about why Supernatural is excellent because it knows exactly what it is. At low-effort content—where okay is okay—we make stuff and share it with you to celebrate life with curiosity, creativity, and compassion...kind of...sometimes. You can contact us & buy our coffee mugs and things. And you can listen to our shows:  Make Mine a Double Feature, where Rob & Ellen have a few drinks and tell each other movie stories in all kinds of ways—like backwards or in the form of letters or from the POV of a side character. Kid. Dad. Songs. Yeah!, where Rob & Felix talk about music. Trivial Television, where Ellen & Rob recap TV episodes while sprinkling in facts, fictions, and trivia questions. Booyah 90s Now, where Rob & Joe break down what it's been like to live under the influence of 90s media. Trading Up!, where Rob loses a bunch of money trying to become a good stock trader. Thanks for hanging out.  Take care.

In modern crime fiction, or perhaps just modern fiction, there are few authors as prolific and genre-diverse as Anthony Horowitz, so it was a delight to have him on the show to cap off our 2021 journey through Metafiction to discuss his latest, 'A Line To Kill', as well as the many ideas and themes we've been investigating on this leg of our Murder Mystery World Tour. From unlikely thematic pairings, the inversion of the writer in his portrayal of himself, to the homework he does to put together a compelling puzzle, we did our best to hit all the ideas of A Line To Kill (and Magpie Murders!) without spoilers, so enjoy at your leisure!

Professor Jacques Berlinerblau joins the show to celebrate his new book, The Philip Roth We Don't Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography (UVA Press)! We get into a deep dive on All Things Roth: #metoo, reverse-biography, metafiction, rage merchants, Rothian Path Dependency, literary legacy & reputation, the changing expectations and tolerances of readers, and the writer Roth cites more than any other in his books. We also talk about the scandal around Roth's biographer and why I think it's greatest metafictional novel Roth never wrote, the role of race & racism in Roth's work (and in Jacques' broader areas of study), why Jacques never wanted to meet Roth, his love of The Anatomy Lesson, the disillusionment he had upon reading Roth's letters in the Library of Congress, why we should all read My Dark Vanessa, whether not winning the Nobel really burned Roth's ass, and so much more! Follow Jacques on Twitter • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Host Julie Sugar leads guest Sharman Apt Russell in a discussion about her latest book, Within Our Grasp, and the push to end childhood malnutrition, the use of metafiction, and finding satisfaction in your writing life.   This episode was produced and mastered by Julie Sugar and Amy Mills Klipstine

Talking Scared is a whole year old today, and to celebrate I've brought you one of the brightest stars in the horror sky, someone who is getting bigger, better and badder with each book he releases. It's Stephen Graham Jones!Stephen is here to discuss My Heart is a Chainsaw – his oh-so-meta revision of the slasher movie and the final girl. The book starts dark and gets darker, with references to every single slasher that you've seen, as well as plenty you haven't. If you say you've seen them all, you're lying. This isn't just a rehash of Wes Craven's Scream, though. As well as the tricks and references, My Heart is a Chainsaw has… well … HEART. Plenty of it. Just as Stephen says in this conversation: sincerity matters. The story matters. Stephen and I talk about our favourite slashers, the joy of childhood horror viewing, the pros and cons of the final girl trope and how you blend irony and sincerity in a work of fiction. I take him to task for always killing animals in his stories and he DOES not make it better by telling me why.Oh, and we both spend a bit of time idolising Joe R. Lansdale. Thanks to everyone who has listened this past year. I can't believe how far we've come and this show wouldn't be what it is without you. Thanks so much. Ok, sweetness over with. On with the bloodshed!Enjoy.My Heart is a Chainsaw was published August 31st by Gallery / Saga in North America and Titan in the UK. Support the show on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com.Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.

This week the walls between reality and fiction begin to break down. What is truth, what is a lie? Can a story be both?These are the kinds of questions my guest, Richard Chizmar, has become an expert at answering. His new novel (if we can call it that) is Chasing the Boogeyman and it's a unique beast. Part memoir, part true-crime, part horror fiction – it takes the streets of Rich's boyhood home, colours them sepia and then lets a serial killer run loose. We talk about the illusion of storytelling, about true-crime and false memories, and the golden-hued horror that we both love. Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and others loom in the background, but Chasing the Boogeyman is uniquely Chizmar, in all the ways a book can be. If that all sounds gorge-risingly poetic then, well, first of all, sod-off, it's my podcast and I'll rhapsodise if I want to. Secondly, don't worry we also talk about monsters and mayhem and the time Rich's friend crapped in his own hand. In short, something for everyone.Enjoy!! (I really did!)Chasing the Boogeyman was published August 17th by Gallery Books in North America and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. Other books mentioned include:Gwendy's Button Box (2017), by Richard Chizmar and Stephen KingGwendy's Magic Feather (2019) by Richard ChizmarI'll Be Gone in the Dark (2018) by Michelle McNamaraTrue Crime Addict (2016), by James RennerLunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton EllisFrom a Buick Eight (2002), by Stephen KingIt (1986), by Stephen KingBoy's Life (1991), by Robert McCammon Support the show on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com.Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.

This episode looks at the Tempest from the perspective of Metafiction and how the relates to modern fiction, philosophy, and reality. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paul-cady/support

David Mitchell celebrates the power of music in Utopia Avenue, Jane Austen inspired fiction and Tara June Winch, winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award.

Metafiction and Metaphysics? Join host Anna Joy for a solo episode where they nerd out about the various scientific evidences there is for witchcraft being a real phenomenon and not make believe. First, we discuss Anna Joy's life directly before she discovered she was a witch: she was a creative writing student highly interested in the genre of metafiction.   We discuss such authors as: Sheila Heti Ben Lerner James Joyce David Foster Wallace Jean Luis Borges   And get into why and how metafiction catapulted Anna Joy into realizing she was a REAL ACTUAL WITH WITH MAGICKAL POWERS HOLY SHIT!   Then we get into all kinds of fun and interesting scientific lessons, such as Dr. Masaru Emoto's water experiments (read all about that here: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html) and the documentary Memory Hackers and the subject of neuroplasticity (watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpX3VZMuyM)   Ultimately, the thesis of this episode is that we all have control over our own actions and that's basically what witchcraft is. This episode was presided over by Hecate, the goddess of the crossroads, choice and witchcraft.   Visit www.annajoyhealing.com/science to get a special pdf download that includes practical guidance on how to integrate the lessons we covered in today's episode as well as a special tarot spread made by Hecate herself! Other episodes referred to in this podcast: The Firebrand Witch: https://www.annajoyhealing.com/podcast/20   Queer Desire & Manifestation: https://www.annajoyhealing.com/podcast/podcast21   Wheel of the Year with Maeanna Welti: https://www.annajoyhealing.com/podcast/podcast22 To support the Queer Witch Podcast, visit www.patreon.com/thequeerwitch to pledge monthly or visit www.thequeerwitch.com to make a one-time donation   Follow us on instagram @thequeerwitch Join our Facebook community called The Queer Witch Community Metafiction and Metaphysics? Join host Anna Joy for a solo episode where they nerd out about the various scientific evidences there is for witchcraft being a real phenomenon and not make believe. First, we discuss Anna Joy's life directly before she discovered she was a witch: she was a creative writing student highly interested in the genre of metafiction.   We discuss such authors as: Sheila Heti Ben Lerner James Joyce David Foster Wallace Jean Luis Borges   And get into why and how metafiction catapulted Anna Joy into realizing she was a REAL ACTUAL WITH WITH MAGICKAL POWERS HOLY SHIT!   Then we get into all kinds of fun and interesting scientific lessons, such as Dr. Masaru Emoto's water experiements (read all about that here: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html) and the documentary Memory Hackers and the subject of neuroplasticity (watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpX3VZMuyM)   Ultimately, the thesis of this episode is that we all have control over our own actions and that's basically what witchcraft is. This episode was presided over by Hecate, the goddess of the crossroads, choice and witchcraft.   Visit www.annajoyhealing.com/science to get a special pdf download that includes practical guidance on how to integrate the lessons we covered in today's episode as well as a special tarot spread made by Hecate herself! Other episodes referred to in this podcast: The Firebrand Witch: https://www.annajoyhealing.com/podcast/20   Queer Desire & Manifestation: https://www.annajoyhealing.com/podcast/podcast21   Wheel of the Year with Maeanna Welti: https://www.annajoyhealing.com/podcast/podcast22 To support the Queer Witch Podcast, visit www.patreon.com/thequeerwitch to pledge monthly or visit www.thequeerwitch.com to make a one-time donation   Follow us on instagram @thequeerwitch Join our Facebook community called The Queer Witch Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/thequeerwitch/   Tune in next week for an interview with Tonya Gonzalez aka @browngirlswhotarot

Time Codes: 00:00:27 - Introduction 00:02:37 - Setup 00:04:06 - A Strange and Beautiful Sound 00:39:45 - Inside Moebius, Part 2 01:19:19 - Wrap up 01:21:02 - Contact us On this month's Euro Comics episode, Pascal and Derek discuss two recent French-language translations. They begin with Zep's A Strange and Beautiful Sound, the second of his books released through IDW Publishing. This is a story of a Carthusian monk who, because of a dead relative's last will and testament, reenters the everyday world after 26 years of seclusion. The art and colors of this narrative are quite striking, and while the subject matter is significantly different from his previous A Story of Men, both Pascal and Derek find a common style between these two texts. Next, they check out the latest work in Dark Horse's Moebius Library, Inside Moebius, Part 2. The guys begin by contextualizing the first part of this improvisational journal, released earlier this year, and then go into detail about Part 2. This second book is much more metafiction and self-referential than Part 1, but like the first installment, it includes multiple representations of the author himself, along with encounters with his most notable creations, Arzach, Major Grubert and Malvina, Stel and Atan, and of course Lieutenant Blueberry. The text is free-flowing and surreal, but this is what makes Moebius's self-investigation so notable. Both guys eagerly await the third and final part of Inside Moebiuslater this fall.

This week Gabe and Tycho create the comic Meta-metafiction.

This week Gabe and Tycho create the comic Metafiction.

We welcome back guest Justin St. Germain, author of the memoir Son of a Gun and picker of this week's book, a novel largely about the process of writing a novel. We talk about metafiction, audience, writerly paralysis, and Tom's love of shoplifting. For more, including a link to buy Justin's book, check out bookfightpod.com.

Tom hates metafiction. Mike tries to get him to love it, or at least appreciate it, using John Barth's 1996 collection On With the Story, linked stories that play a number of narrative games and call attention to how stories work, and how we expect them to work. We also talk about about the false dichotomy of sad stories vs happy stories, and why Tom's students want him to cheer the hell up.