Episode 169 - What is a Book? (Part 2)

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• DC Pride 2022 #1
• Tic Tac Tome: The Autonomous Tic Tac Toe Playing Book by Willy Yonkers
• Homestuck (Wikipedia)
• Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Wikipedia)
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Wikipedia)
• Lasers & Feelings
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 144 - What is a Book?
• I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to
• Episode 108 - Visual Novels
• Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia)
• Demian's Gamebook Web Page
• KineticNovel (Wikipedia)
• Hypertext fiction (Wikipedia)
• HyperCard (Wikipedia)
• Flip Book (Wikipedia)
• Desert Bus for Hope
• Microform (Wikipedia)
• Rice writing (Wikipedia)
• Matthew was just wrong about this
• Changes to new editions of Roald Dahl books have readers up in arms
• Jaffa Cakes: Legal Status (Wikipedia)
• That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law
• Fountain (Duchamp) (Wikipedia)

20 Books Adapted into Film/TV by BIPOC Authors (and 7 Being Adapted Soon)

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.

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (1985)
• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (1989 mini-series)
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol & Thomas Christensen | Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison | Beloved (1998)
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie | Smoke Signals (1998)
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis (2007)
• Q&A by Vikras Swarup | Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• Push by Sapphire | Precious (2009)
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly | Hidden Figures (2016)
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston | Silence (2016)
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese | Indian Horse (2017)
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give (2018)
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)
• Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Chararipotra | Tiny Pretty Things (2020 TV series)
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger (2021)
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee | Pachinko (2022 TV series)
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese (2023 TV series)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (2023)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Exit West (2023)
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind (2023)
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu | The Three-Body Problem (2023 TV series)
• Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Blackout (forthcoming film & TV series)
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl (forthcoming TV series)

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Gender Theory/Studies!

Then on Tuesday, March 21st we’ll be talking about Moving and Management of Books!