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This episode we're talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are Cosmopolitan for scientists! 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 | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, & Christopher Merrill Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto “Machine Love” by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill “Ice” by Lotte van der Krol The 4th Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Dans l'antre d'Aoï garden by Hye-Young Pyun  Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry Other Media We Mentioned “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn” (Wikipedia) “El Dinosaurio” by Augusto Monterroso “El Emigrante” by Luis Felipe Lomelí Every Book Its Reader by @marccold It's lunchtime, which means it's time for a very sad story in which love is found, love is lost, he does her wrong, and she gets her revenge by @marccold Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs edited and translated by John Colarusso New Yorker Flash Fiction Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol  Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (Wikipedia) “Human Intelligence” by Kurt Anderson Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 108 - Visual Novels Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks Book Club for Masochists: Land Acknowledgements Drabble (Wikipedia) Cell phone novel (Wikipedia) Twitterature (Wikipedia) The Short Story Dispenser Storm Crow Beermat microfiction contest (archive.org) Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction Lydia Davis (Wikipedia) Poetry in Transit (Vancouver) Deny Everything - Circle Jerks (Spotify) YouTube 15 Flash Fiction Books & 15 Flash Fiction Stories 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. All of the lists can be found here. Collections The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn People of Colo(u)r Destroy Flash Fiction! edited by Berit Ellingsen States of Grace by Stephen Graham Jones Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami Complete Works & Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso Forward by Shabnam Piryaei The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China edited & translated by Shouhua Qi Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America edited by by Robert Shapard & James Thomas Microfictions by Ana María Shua Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Córdoba Sosa The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela Work-In-Progress by Ran Walker Stories “Riddle” by Ogbewe Amadin “lil miss jackson” by Nefertiti Asanti “Smoothies” by Venita Blackburn “Gloria” by K-Ming Chang “After 'While” by Cherie Dimaline “Before the Haze Devours You” by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas “As the North Wind Howled” by Yu Hua “A Sailor” by Randa Jarrar “Moonboys” by Stephen Graham Jones “Roe Soup Dance” by Tammy Heejae Lee “Time, Like Water” by Amal El-Mohtar “As Above” by Amal El-Mohtar “Niqqak” by Sedna Qaġaq “More than Nothing” by Nisi Shawl “God Product” by Alyssa Wong 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, September 21st when we'll be discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Then on Tuesday, October 5th we'll be getting spooky in preparation for Halloween as we discuss the genre of Erotica!

This episode it's the first part of our 2021 Battle of the Books! We're each pitching a book that we think we should all read and discuss, and you get to decide which one we read! We talk about pombies, wooden book clubs, friendship, and more! Plus: Digressions about superheroes! 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 | RJ Edwards Which book should we all read? I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez  Vote for which book you'd like us all to read Vote! Our Shortlists RJ's Shortlist Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi Circe by Madeline Miller A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery Meghan's Shortlist The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow  The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Anna's Shortlist Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Media We Mentioned The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Loki (TV series) (Wikipedia) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Links, Articles, and Things Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Dear Prudence Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia) The Shirley Jackson shirt RJ was wearing Arsenal Pulp Press Hark! Podcast Mangasplaining Canada Reads (Wikipedia) Spider-Man (Wikipedia) Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe) (Wikipedia) Miles Morales (Wikipedia) Ben Reilly (Wikipedia) The New 52 (Wikipedia) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Wikipedia) Imaginary Prisons (Wikipedia) Wyvern (Wikipedia) Sixties Scoop (Wikipedia) Canadian Indian residential school system (Wikipedia) Cultural genocide (Wikipedia) 1976 Argentine coup d'état (Wikipedia) 15 Spy/Espionage books by Authors of Colour 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 POC (People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here. This is our retrospective book list for Episode 012 - Spies & Espionage.  Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent by Lorisa Bates A Hope Divided : A Novel of the Civil War by Alyssa Cole A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de Leon Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim The Starlet and the Spy by Ji-Min Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Quotients by Tracey O'Neill The Strivers' Row Spy by Jason Overstreet Open House by Nabil Saleh Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson 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, August 3rd it's time to jack in and download because we'll be reading the genre of Cyberpunk! Then on Tuesday, August 17th it's time for another of our episodes in which we discuss books, movies, and other media we consume that aren't for the podcast!

This episode we’re talking about Literary Theory & Literary Criticism! We discuss what literature even is, books we haven’t read, preconceived notions, and much 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 Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin Is Gender Necessary? A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk Other Media We Mentioned XKCD - Types of Scientific Paper Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison The ecology of dystopia : an ecocritical analysis of young adult dystopian texts by Stephanie Dror Anne of Green Gables (Wikipedia) The Hunger Games (Wikipedia) Merlin (2008 TV series) (Wikipedia) The Vampire Diaries (novel series) (Wikipedia) Harry Potter (Wikipedia) The Third Man by Graham Greene The Collaborators by Pierre Siniac, translated by Jordan Stump (originally published in French as Ferdinaud Céline) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Annals of Pard (blog posts about cats) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (Purdue) Racebending (Wikipedia) Category:Star Trek fandom (Wikipedia) Hugo Award (Wikipedia) Best Fanzine Best Fan Artist Best Fan Writer Best Fancast The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde Read it online Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia) Robert Crumb (Wikipedia) James Tiptree Jr. (Wikipedia) Norman Mailer (Wikipedia) Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing 20 Literary Theory 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. All of the lists can be found here. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice Ex-Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected by Edwin Wong 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, May 18th, we’ll be talking about Books We Did Not Finish! Then on Tuesday, June 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Crime Fiction!

“Center of Things” Episode 6 in George’s pandemic roadtrip demonstrates what’s at the heart of Unplugged America . . . and announces Charley’s first, and so far only, unplugged accessory.

Let's talk about confidence. Some people seem like they're born with it, while so many others struggle with it. For those who don't seem to have that natural born flair, no worries, being more confident can be learned and developed. In today's episode, Sherry shares five tips which she practices regularly in order to speak, act and feel more confident as she interacts with people and enters into social settings, whether at work, at a business conference or on a date. After listening in, let us know which one resonates with you the most. Screenshot this episode, and share it in your stories, and tag us! We LOVE hearing from you! Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode: Episode 51: You Can't Build Authentic Meaningful Relationships Without These 3 Things Episode 55: Dear Introvert, Don't Be Afraid to Shoot Your Shot. Here's Why! Toastmasters Own The Room The Confident Speaker Podcast with Kelly D. Parker The Art Of Charm Podcast Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie The Introverts Edge to Networking by Matthew Pollard Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain How to Deliver a TED Talk by Jeremy Donovan Click here for our "20 Easy Conversation Starters You Can Use Anytime". Get Social with Us: Sign up for our weekly newsletter for more motivation, tips and resources Instagram - @nosmalltalkpodcast Twitter - @nosmalltalkpod1 Facebook Group - No Small Talk Podcast No Small Talk is hosted by Ebony Anuforo and Shereefat Balogun; produced by Wale "Breathe Easy" Balogun --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/no-small-talk/message

In this week’s very special show we welcome the fantastic Pamela and Chelsey of the Canadian podcast ‘Dram Fine’ to help us taste the Auchentoshan American Oak Lowland Single Malt Scotch, all in the name of International Scotch Day. As well as chat all things Whisky, they also tell us all about their amazing podcast and we have great discussion about music we like to enjoy a dram with including some perfect playlists to set the mood. Here are this week’s show notes… You can purchase the Auchentoshan American Oak from the Whisky Exchange and help out the podcast in the process by clicking this link -https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/26000/auchentoshan-american-oakand the highly recommended Auchentoshan Three Wood here - https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/7957/auchentoshan-three-wood Learn more about Auchentoshan here - https://www.auchentoshan.com Find out more about the Dram Fine Podcast here www.dramfine.comand on socials media at the following links or @dramfinepodcast within the apps - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dramfinepodcast/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dramfinepodcast/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dramfinepodcast/ Hear their latest podcast episode on Spotify here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BKeUjm1WGiSnuYou2zC3n?si=3YOl0phqReWFH1P40Xg8Jw Find links to all their ‘Drinking Whisky While’ playlists here - https://dramfinecom.wordpress.com/playlist/ Find out more about the Distillery Chelsey works in, Strathcona Spirits and their Dreamland Prairie Whisky here - https://www.strathconaspirits.ca/product-page/dreamland-prairie-whisky-750-ml …and the ‘Canadian Whisky of the Year’ - Alberta Premium 100% Rye…. here - https://www.albertadistillers.com/home.html Here’s the list of the other wonderful content mentioned in this week’s show…Dave’s new Single “Elizabeth I” https://ffm.to/x5meaz9 Matt Berry Snuff Box compilation with that “WHISKY” line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDbb7-dn9A Sam Pope’s TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6914422500923902721 “That Dan Aykroyd Ghost Busters deleted scene" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzolJjO_1Bs Whisky and Things Episode 42 - Glenlivet Caribbean Reserve where we mentioned the excise act - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BAsxIxJmAxc8Ee6dYpDH0? Purchase "Dave Broom - Whisky, The Manual" here - https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/759/whisky-the-manual and find out more about "Dave Broom - The Amber Light (Film)" here - https://www.amberlightfilm.com Whisky and Things:Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/whiskyandthingsMerch and info: http://www.whiskyandthings.comBe sure to find our playlist on Spotify: Whisky and Things - The PlaylistMore Whisky and Things Merch available here - https://www.zazzle.co.uk/store/whiskyandthings Social media:https://www.facebook.com/whiskyandthingshttps://www.twitter.com/whiskyandthingshttps://www.instagram.com/whiskyandthingspodcast For business enquiries: info@whiskyandthings.com Nick Kent:https://www.facebook.com/nickkentmusichttps://www.twitter.com/nickkenthttps://www.instagram.com/mrnickkent Dave Giles:https://www.facebook.com/davejgilesmusichttps://www.twitter.com/davejgileshttps://www.instagram.com/davejgiles The Whisky and Things Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5CK9Fvo2ECvcvn6L4VL7Dt?si=7uC2ijz6QXmTZYCdYCg41A The old ‘Whiskey and Things’ music playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/74GPa8Yo14LBcECTfct79d?si=fBQ6zl4LR_GA1Jg_asajPw Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/whiskyandthings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Battle of the Books 2020! It’s the one time a year that we all read the same book! We each pitch a title and our listeners vote and decide on which it will be. Our possibilities include Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet, and An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Which book should we all read? Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (RJ’s pick) Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (Meghan’s pick) My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet (Anna’s pick) An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Matthew’s pick)   Vote for which book we all read! (deadline is July 1st)   Our Shortlists RJ Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Circe by Madeline Miller The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa Anna Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks Matthew Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch  Meghan Normal People by Sally Rooney The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Burnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Other Media we Mentioned Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (the 1000 page, one sentence book) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red by Martha Wells Links, Articles, and Things Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? (our “book pitch” episode from last year, includes shortlists) Episode 083 - The Fifth Season (our “we all read the same book” episode from last year) Domestic Fiction (encylopedia.com) A writer chronicles her “time among the whites” (Vox) Another Thing the Book Burning at Georgia Southern Reveals (Inside Higher Ed) Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature (Los Angeles Review of Books) Hark! (RJ’s winter holiday music podcast) Bingo sheets! The bingo sheets we made for episode 50.  What should we add to updated bingo sheet? Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 7th we’ll be talking about the genre of Entertainment (Non-Fiction)! Then on Tuesday, July 21st we’ll be discussing Summer Reading/Challenges!

Big T returns to the pod to talk wrestling - we count down our top 5 WWE superstars of the last decade. From Rollins to Cena, AJ to Brock, Charlotte & Alexa - we break down our lists and have some discussion about why we picked who we did. Also, I talk about an amazing rock show featuring the return of Mr. Bungle!!All the Things Episode 10!

This month we’re discussing Adventure Fiction! We talk about bears (and bear fighting), spies, secret tunnels, robots, survival, thrillers, male romance, geese, pirates, stolen smartphones, shipwrecks, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Robert Hamaker Things We Read The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy There are ten sequels to this book! And spin-offs! Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate (featuring Tim Curry) The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss Robinsonade (Wikipedia) Pirates! by Celia Rees The Wild Robot by Peter Brown The Anomaly by Michael Rutger Matthew forgot this bit of the book that he also really hates:  “We were guaranteed a spread in Ancient American magazine, and maybe a mention in Obscure Academic Quarterly About Indigenous Peoples (circulation: 151 copies worldwide, hidden in college libraries where no one under the age of forty goes expect to make out).” The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Dirk Pitt (Wikipedia) Sahara (2005 film) (Wikipedia) The photo that RJ shared with everyone Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia Rick Riordan Presents (Wikipedia) John Henry (folklore) (Wikipedia) Steel (John Henry Irons) (Wikipedia) Can RJ find a book in this genre by a trans author? Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Other Media We Mention You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane Conan the Barbarian (Wikipedia) The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (Wikipedia) The Shadow (Wikipedia) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Wikipedia) Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests by Diana Tixier Herald, Wayne A. Wiegand The Executioner (Wikipedia) Deathlands (Wikipedia) The Young Indiana Jones series of kids books Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Ghost Twins Series by Dian Curtis Regan The Boxcar Children (Wikipedia)  My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Wikipedia) Heinlein juveniles (Wikipedia) Indiana Jones (franchise) (Wikipedia) Tomb Raider (Wikipedia) Uncharted (Wikipedia) Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer Links, Articles, and Things Episode 059 - Food and Cooking Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Posts from the AI Weirdness blog tagged as “recipes” Something Something Soup Something (the “soup or not soup” game) "The Lectores Who Read to Cuba's Cigar Rollers" Jack London (Wikipedia) Adventure fiction (Wikipedia) Suggest new genres! Fill out the form to suggest genres! 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 17th for our Best of 2019 episode! Then on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art!

This month we’re discussing Psychology! We discuss psychedelics, rodent-based experiments, citations and footnotes, and books that turn out to be not what we expected. Plus: Why some of us don’t eat cephalopods!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Amanda Wanner Things We Read How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan Not the Monty Python guy, that’s Michael Palin Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (New York Times article) Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do by Stanley Coren Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith  The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski Other Media We Mention The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee  The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Links, Articles, and Things Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction Oliver Sacks (Wikipedia) Michael Murray (Google Scholar) - Matthew’s dad Jean Piaget (Wikipedia) XKCD - Purity - "sociology is just applied psychology"  SF Masterworks (Wikipedia) - The ones with yellow covers Contest! Tell us your favourite episode! Win a sticker! Suggest new genres! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 19th we’ll be discussing Other People’s Favourites! Then on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the genre of Adventure Fiction.

Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com Glass Eye for the Spooky Guy [Maker Update #143] *Adafruit Edition* This week on Maker Update: Everything is awesome with this 3d printed lamp, over 2000 guides, a Xenomorph Candy Bucket, a creepy beating heart, mobile coding, keychords, IoT security and crazy cartoon eyes. Join the Maker Update email newsletter http://eepurl.com/cCJF21 ++Show Notes [Maker Update #143 Adafruit Edition]++ -=Project of the Week=- MONSTER M4SK Toon Hat https://learn.adafruit.com/monster-mask-augmented-eyes-toon-hat/graphics -=News=- The Adafruit Learning System has 2,000 guides! https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/24/the-adafruit-learning-system-has-2000-guides-adafruit-adafruit-thank-you/ Max Holliday – CircuitPython in space, SmallSats and more! https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/23/max-holiday-circuitpython-in-space-smallsats-and-more-circuitpython-maholli404-smallsat-stanford-keysightiotchallenge-zacinaction-kicksat/ -=Adafruit Projects=- LEGO Head Lamp with Audio https://learn.adafruit.com/lego-head-lamp-with-audio LED Neopixel Mickey Ears https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-led-mickey-ears NEW GUIDE: Alien Xenomorph Halloween Candy Bucket with CPX & MakeCode https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/27/new-guide-alien-xenomorph-halloween-candy-bucket-with-cpx-makecode-adafruit/ 3d Printed Glowing Scale Armor https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/25/new-guide-3d-printed-glowing-scale-armor/ Capacitive Touch Pulsing Heart https://learn.adafruit.com/3d-printed-heart-capacitive-touch -=Contributed Projects=- Motorized Turntable by Liz Clark https://learn.adafruit.com/motorized-turntable-circuitpython -=Tools/Tips=- Adafruit Discord! https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/17/14000-thank-yous-celebrating-14000-members-in-the-adafruit-discord-community-adafruit-discordapp/ Glider - An app for editing Python on mobile devices wirelessly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYpcjDBA6xw TypeCase – a gestural keyboard phone case https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/26/typecase-a-gestural-keyboard-phone-case-assistivetechnology-feather-hackaday/ MobileNet V2 SSD Lite on Raspberry Pi 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wC2jVvGSXs All the Internet of Things – Episode 5: The S in IoT is for Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHqKL1okno -=Product Spotlight=- Monster M4sk https://www.adafruit.com/product/4343 Cool acrylic lenses https://www.adafruit.com/product/4330 Adafruit Monster M4sk just happens to fit perfect in a BOGLIN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah_opx9Q5Tg ------- Maker Update is a weekly video series covering news, projects, tips, and events that interest the maker and DIY community. Find more online: Blog: http://makerprojectlab.com Facebook: http://fb.me/makerprojectlab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makerprojectlab/ ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------

This month we’re discussing American Gothic! We discuss old creepy houses, weird families, cultural context, potential supernatural, the sense of unease, and media that makes you feel emotions. Plus: You’ve inherited a haunted decaying space station. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Jessi F Things We Read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote Bonavere Howl by Caitlin Galway Florence & Giles by John Harding The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Child of God by Cormac McCarthy Vlad by Carlos Fuentes Universal Harvester by John Darnielle the Mountain Goats (Wikipedia) This Year (music video) Sax Rohmer #1 (music video) (this is the one sampled in the episode) Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds Gothic Tales of Haunted Love by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures (Kickstarter) Other Media We Mention Hellboy by Mike Mignola The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Vampire: The Masquerade (tabletop game) American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The real place! The Addams Family by Charles Addams (Wikipedia) Scooby-Doo Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men - 261 – Out of the Subtext, Live from FlameCon with Vita Ayala! Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Edgar Allan Poe (Wikipedia) The Black Cat The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Pit and the Pendulum The Raven The Tell-Tale Heart Ghosts of Mars (Wikipedia) Betrayal at House on the Hill (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 002 - Gothic Literature Episode 049 - Southern Gothic Southern Ontario Gothic Wuxia (Chinese martial arts novels)  The Providence Athenæum New genres we made up Latin American Gothic Space Gothic Suggest new genres! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 15th we’ll be discussing suspending our disbelief when it comes to fiction plus we’ll talk about literary-themed Halloween costumes! Then on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!

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This month we’re discussing Which Book Should We Read? Once a year we pick one title that we all read and discuss. This year we each suggest one title and are asking you to vote for which one we’ll read. Also discussed: Books & Beverages library displays, The Podcaster’s Dilemma, poetry clocks, touching, smelling, and tasting podcasts, and a fantasy novel that’s a collection of found and fragmentary historical documents. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards The Nominees! Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Meghan’s pick) The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong (RJ’s pick) The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden (Anna’s pick) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Matthew’s pick) (It didn’t win the Hugo in early June 2016, so who knows what happened then.) Vote for which book we’ll read! (Polls will close by July 14th) Twitter Facebook Google Form (Shortlists only include books that none of us had read.) Meghan’s Shortlist Black Leopard, Red Wolf by by Marlon James All Systems Red by Martha Wells The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and  Amelia Nagoski She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal RJ’s Shortlist Little Fish by Casey Plett nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon Mistakes to Run With by Yasuko Thanh Anna’s Shortlist Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison We are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Matthew’s Shortlist Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey Links, Articles, and Things Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Canada Reads (Wikipedia) Meet the 2019 Combat national des livres contenders - The geographic region that got left out of Le combat des livres was BC Epistolary novel (Wikipedia) Episode 033 - Legal Thrillers Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (the fantasy novel) Masquerade, Initiation, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy: N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor in Conversation “I am still not sure what that [Afrofuturism] is,” Jemisin said. “I write what I write; you put whatever label makes you feel comfortable, have fun with it. I would write these stories whether they were getting published or not. […] I don’t have a problem with labeling, as long as it’s not too restrictive or conservative. People do try to hammer me into this little slot, but I don’t let them. I write what I feel like writing.” Suggest a genre or book! Fill out the form to suggest a genre or book! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 2nd when we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of True Crime! Then on Tuesday, July 16th we’ll be talking about the American Library Association annual conference and books we’re looking forward to in the second half of 2019!

Episode 17: Bitcoins Social Struggles • Introduction • Episode 1: Beauty Reinvented • Episode 4: AI and Fake News • Episode 5:Trump Economics • Episode 6: Rotten Social Media • Episode 3: Robot Labor • Episode 7: Cryptocurrency and Social a Crisis • Episode 8: The Millennial of Things • Episode 9: The Death of Expertise • Episode 10: GPU vs CPU • Episode 13: Cryptocurrency 2.0 • Episode 14: Blacxplotation Movies • Episode 15: Algorithmic World Dominance • Episode 16: Bitcoin Pop!!

We are back in 2018, for the first episode of the New Year we have two special guests, Shirley Wu and Amy Wibowo to talk with us about freelancing and running your own business. We discuss how to start freelance work, how to manage clients and how to handle difficult clients. Guests: Shirley Wu - @sxywu Amy Wibowo - @sailorhg Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Shirley Wu - Bubblesort Zines Shirley Wu - Coding like a girl by Amy Wibowo Shirley Wu - OpenVis Conf Shirley Wu - Kimi No Na Wa (Your name) Amy Wibowo - The Hate U Give Ryan Burgess - ConferCal Ryan Burgess - Black Mirror Season 4 Augustus Yuan - Smog Free Tower Augustus Yuan - Speedometer 2.0 Jem Young - Cowarobot Jem Young - Code Problems Jem Young - Babel Time Travel Derrick Showers - Gramercy Tavern Derrick Showers - My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman Brian Holt - Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form: Setup and Testing Brian Holt - Bussed out - How America moves its homeless Brian Holt - 5 Things Episode 1: Five Things About Create React App Stacy London - Git it gurl from BubbleSort Zines from Amy! Stacy London - Change the Paradigm by Austra Stacy London - World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts by Don Hertzfeldt

Adam and Jeannie interview global customer experience professional Ian Golding to conquer the challenges of operationalizing customer experience. Turning CX wisdom into action with Ian Golding Leaders all over the world are making the connection between customer experience and business success. While that’s a good thing, just talking the talk is not enough! If you read the right blogs and know the right people, all the wisdom and best practices are there for the taking. But few know how to put all that wisdom to work. “Too few organizations are aligning customer perception with operational performance.” -Ian Golding So what’s missing? How can leaders embed customer-centric thinking into business processes, ultimately turning that enthusiasm into action? Today’s guest is a world-renowned customer experience professional, and he’s here to share some of his best ideas for operationalizing customer experience. Drawing from his experience working with CX professionals all over the world, Ian gives us a snapshot of the global CX landscape. What are the common threads among successful leaders worldwide, and where do we need to improve the most? “The main attribute of all, beyond even the skills and competencies, is courage.” -Ian Golding Ian is a phenomenal customer experience professional with a unique perspective, and we’re lucky to have him join us today!  Listen in to learn the hard truths about customer experience leadership, how we use data, why we still execute poorly, and more. Interview Highlights We must “operationalize” customer experience to make a real difference, but what does that mean and how can you get started? [3:30] What’s globally common about the approach to CX, and what’s different? [6:30] What are the most important attributes of customer experience professionals? [10:50] Ian comically says customer-centric leaders need 3 bones in their body, so what are they? [13:50] How is data used in CX for developing countries, and are they as obsessed with it as we are in the US? [15:45] About our guest A highly influential freelance CX consultant, Ian Golding advises leading companies on CX strategy, measurement, improvement and employee advocacy techniques and solutions. Ian has worked globally across multiple industries including retail, financial services, logistics, manufacturing, telecoms and pharmaceuticals deploying CX tools and methodologies. An internationally renowned speaker and blogger on the subject of CX, Ian was also the first to become a CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional) Authorised Resource & Training Provider. Connect with Ian Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Website Related Content 360Connext® post, Which Comes First? Customer Experience or Sales? Customers That Stick® post, The Best CX Leaders ROCK at These 3 Things Episode 282: Stephen Shapiro, Innovating Customer Experience Episode 255: (Tip) Your Org Chart vs. Your Customers Ian's post, Customer Experience 2017 Reality Check – Evolution or Revolution? We’re on C-Suite Radio! Check it out for more great podcasts Sponsor message: Start creating a successful CX strategy Are you ready to build a customer experience strategy on a solid foundation for the long term? We’re shattering the top 5 CX strategy myths in our latest evergreen webinar. You will learn: How to avoid the 5 so-called “Customer Experience Strategies” that aren’t strategies at all What drives a winning customer experience strategy and examples of companies that “get it” How to create a foundation for a customer experience strategy that works for the long term Join Jeannie at a time that works for you for some serious mythbusting and a head start on creating a customer experience strategy that works!  Sign Me Up!     Take care of yourself and take care of your customers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Bs and a P: Videos Can Be A Lot of Things (Episode 62) http://aquabearlegion.com/podcasts/6b1p-episode62.mp3 It’s a bye week and somehow the Browns still lose. Manziel goes from starting QB to 3rd stringer for partyin’ (this got released right after this episode that he got demoted), and the 6b1p crew discusses everything from the Steelers … Continue reading "6 Bs and a P: Videos Can Be a Lot of Things (Episode 62)"