Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Classics! We talk about what makes a book a classic, whether a classic has to be good or not, fiction vs non-fiction classics, and how classics change over time. Plus: Pro strats and speedrunning techniques for classics!

(Apologies for some audio problems this episode, should be fixed for next time!)

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Netflix show (Wikipedia)
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Comic adaptation by Emi Gennis
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, Stacy King, and SunNeko Lee
• Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Crystal S. Chan and Nokman Poon 
• Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Stacy King and Po Tse
  • All the Manga Classics titles!
• Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition by Natsume Sōseki, adapted by Chiroru Kobata, translated by Zack Davisson

Other Media We Mentioned

• King John by William Shakespeare (Wikipedia)
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)
• Evelina by Frances Burney (Wikipedia)
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (Wikipedia)
• Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• Faggots by Larry Kramer
• Beowulf: A New Translation translated by Maria Dahvana Headley, read by JD Jackson
• The Sandman (Wikipedia)
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, read by Gabra Zackman
• Unsolved Mysteries (Wikipedia)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Wikipedia)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
• Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
• Clueless (Wikipedia)
• Manga Classics: Emma by Jane Austen, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, Stacy King, and Po Tse
• Emma by Jane Austen (Wikipedia)
• Clue (film) (Wikipedia)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Ena Moriyama
• The Nose by Nikoai Gogol
  • Read on Project Gutenberg
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie  (Wikipedia)
• Ranking the original 150 Pokémon for #WorldGothDay - Friday Night Spooktacular (RJ & Matthew livestream!)
• All the Manga Classics titles!

Links, Articles, and Things

• FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) (Wikipedia
• Jonathan Swift (Wikipedia)
• Daily Dracula
• Roger Zelazny (Wikipedia)
• Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks
• Trip the light fantastic (Wikipedia)
• Clothbound Connoisseur (Instagram)

22 Classics 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.

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdich
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 21st we’ll be talking about Beach Reads.

Then on Tuesday, July 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Humour Non-Fiction!