Dec 1, 2020
This episode we’re talking about New Weird Fiction! Strap in, because we spend a lot of time discussing what this genre even is (or if it exists at all!). We talk about whether a genre needs more than two authors to be a genre, how to describe books in which the plot is not the point, “capital W” Weird vs “lowercase w” weird, and more!
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Things We Read
- The Etched City by KJ Bishop
- The Vorrh by Brian Catling
- Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
- Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
- Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
- The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo
- The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker
- Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
Other Media We Mentioned
- The Yawhg - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel Stream (Watch Matthew, Meghan, RJ, and Amanda play!)
- A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
- Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Reply All podcast
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Uzumaki by Junji Ito
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia)
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- She Walks in Shadows edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles
- Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy by Transgender Authors edited by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick
- British Library’s Tales of the Weird
- King City by Brandon Graham
- Prophet, Volume 1: Remission by a bunch of people
- Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
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- The Horror at Red Hook (Wikipedia)
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
- Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
- The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
- Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
- The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Links, Articles, and Things
- H. P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia)
- LockedOutOfElfland’s definition of New Weird fiction
- Introduction: Old and New Weird
- Finnish Weird
- The Midnight Society (Twitter account)
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- Tweet about Lovecraft
- Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals by BitterKarella
- Episode 019 - Weird Fiction (Book Club for Masochists)
- Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction (Book Club for Masochists)
- China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween
- Men Writing Women (Reddit)
12 New Weird 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.
- Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
- Temper by Nicky Drayden
- Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
- Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
- Tentacle by Rita Indiana
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
- The Night Cyclist by Stephan Graham Jones
- A Song for Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle
- Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- The Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim
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Join us again on Tuesday, December 15th for our Best of 2020 episode!
Then on Tuesday, January 5th we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Sociology!