Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling
It’s episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell Time Machine 2: Search For Dinosaurs and David Bischoff Inheritance by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer Bats of the Republic by Zachery Thomas Dodson Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen Other Media We Mentioned Choose Your Own Adventure S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Frances Burney The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn A Void/La Disparition by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Detroit: Become Human Talking Simulator — Detroit: Become Human Garth Marenghi's Darkplace “I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.” Wanted: Dead Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Blue Prince Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel by Antony Johnston The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick Links, Articles, and Things Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction Oulipo Reddit threads Books with experimental or unusual formats - multiple illustrations, combination of mediums, alternating structure etc Any books with unconventional or creative storytelling formats/structures you'd recommend? List of sandwiches Architecture student writes 149-page thesis without punctuation 15 Non-Traditional Storytelling books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast 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. Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse by Ana Castillo Inheritance: A Pick-the-Path Experience by Darrell Dennis, Medina Hahn, and Daniel Arnold The Girl I Am, Was, And Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy Monster by Walter Dean Myers Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds with art by Jason Griffin Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq with art by Jaime Hernandez Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon with art by Frank Yoon Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell 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, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 15th. It's time for our “Battle of the Books!” We’ll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read. Then on Tuesday, August 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir/Grit Lit.
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