Episode 194 - Indie Publishers

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re discussing the topic(?) of Indie Publishers! We talk about how to define an indie publisher, weirdo metro stories, song lyrics, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

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Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Trial of the Clone: An Interactive Adventure! by Zach Weinersmith and Chris Jones
• Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
• Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure by Hazel Jane Plante
  • Video of the reading that Jam bought their books at last year!
• A Short Journey by Car by Liam Durcan
• Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
• Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power by Rebecca Solnit
• Of Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly Wang

Other Media We Mentioned

• What About Crowdfunded Comics? by Matthew Murray 🦇 and Mara L. Thacker
  • Podcast version
• How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith
• The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley
• When I Arrived at the Castle by E. M. Carroll
• Boy Island by Leo Fox
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

Links, Articles, and Things

• Image Comics (Wikipedia)
• Creative Commons
• SkyTrain (Vancouver) (Wikipedia)
• Oulipo (Wikipedia)
• Podcast episode where one host tries not to say the letter “e”
• Denver Small Press Fest
• Spaghettieis (Wikipedia)
  • “spaghetti ice cream”

45 New & Forthcoming Indie Press Books by BIPOC 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.

Fiction

• Weird Black Girls: Stories by Elwin Cotman (AK Press)
• False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K’Wan (Akashic Books)
• Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago Books)
• Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere (Catapult)
• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Catapult)
• Cecilia by K-Ming Chang (Coffee House Press)
• Fog & Car by Eugene Lim (Coffee House Press)
• We’re Safe When We’re Alone by Nghiem Tran (Coffee House Press)
• A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Counterpoint Press)
• Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle, translated by Heather Houde (Feminist Press)
• The Default World by Naomi Kanakia (Feminist Press)
• The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel (Feminist Press)
• I'll Give You a Reason by Annell López (Feminist Press)
• Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by Jennifer Feeley (Feminist Press)
• Outcaste by Sheila James (Goose Lane Editions)
• Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (House of Anansi Press)
• Dad, I Miss You by Nadia Sammurtok, illustrated by Simji Park (Inhabit Media)
• Secrets of the Snakestone by Pia DasGupta (Nosy Crow)
• The Burrow by Melanie Cheng (Tin House)
• Masquerade by Mike Fu (Tin House)
• The World With Its Mouth Open: Stories by Zahid Rafiq (Tin House)
• I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall (Soft Skull Press)

Non-Fiction

• RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D and Kathy Lopez (Akashic Books)
• All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee (Catapult)
• My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents by Jennifer Neal (Catapult)
• Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant's Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe by Deja Vu Prem (Catapult)
• Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco (Coffee House Press)
• Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha LaPointe (Counterpoint Press)
• Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience by Alpha Nkuranga (Goose Lane Editions)
• Jinny Yu (At Once/À La Fois) by Jinny Yu (Goose Lane Editions)
• Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross (LittlePuss Press)
• Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions)
• World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions)
• Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar (Soft Skull Press)
• The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa (Tin House)
• Black Meme: The History of the Images That Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso Books)

Poetry

• i heard a crow before i was born by Jules Delorme (Goose Lane Editions)
• We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu (Haymarket Books)
• A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks (Haymarket Books)
• [...] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)

Comics

• A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Lost at Windy River by Jillian Dolan, Trina Rathgeber and Alina Pete (Orca Books)

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction Pop Culture!

Then on Tuesday, June 18th it’s time once again for One Book One Podcast as we each pitch a book we think we should read and you (the listeners) get to vote!