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A Readers' Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Arte Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Episode 229 - Media Criticism

    Episode 229 - Media Criticism
    Apr 7 2026
    It's episode 229 and time for us to talk about Media Criticism. We talk about what counts as media, the challenges of writing about emerging forms of media, how we interact with criticism, 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…) The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel BetancourtReading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas WolkMarvel Age of Comics: Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic by Stuart Moore, narrated by Jason LaskyCritical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria MachadoCulture Creep: Notes on a Pop Apocalypse by Alice BolinPop Classics #15: Ugh, as if!: Clueless by Veronica LittSelected Amazon Reviews by Kevin KillianWe See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell AndersonThe Devil Finds Work by James BaldwinWhy I love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature edited by Becky Siegel SpratfordBad Indian Bookclub: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec Other Media We Mentioned Parasite EveClever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregorAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil PostmanManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky33 ⅓The Importance Of Being Earnest | Official Trailer | National Theatre LiveLady Sings the BluesVideo Essayists Answer Your Assumptions (with hbomberguy‬, ‪D'Angelo Wallace, and Mina Le, ft. Spencer Agnew) Our Favourite Video Essayists/Reviewers/Reviews Action ButtonAmanda the JediAny AustinDungeon ChillEvery Frame a PaintingFolding IdeasI Finished a Video GameJacob GellarJenna StoeberJenny NicholsonhbomberguyLindsay EllisMatt McMuscles: The Worst Fighting GameMatty BitesPrincess WeekesReRez: Just Bad GamesRyan HollingerSuper Eyepatch WolfT1JTodd in the ShadowsThe WWE's complex "Black" history by F.D SignifierExtremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List | Part 1: Re-ranking the Top 20 by Innuendo Studios and Questing Refuge Jam's list of top 10 video essays about media I've never seen Links, Articles, and Things The Times Literary SupplementBubbles Zine The Comics StapleLibro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program 20 Media Criticism 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. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin Black Music by Amiri Baraka The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television From Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond by Bethonie Butler Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey Original People, Original Television: The Launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network by Jennifer David Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Video Games are Changing Our World by Marijam Did Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by Karen Han Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals by Julia Lee Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship by Lori Kido Lopez The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema From Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris Music Is History by Questlove 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, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media update! Then on Tuesday, May 5th, we'll be talking about Sapphic horror (as suggested by tmauch)
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  • Episode 228 - Computers / Computer Science

    Episode 228 - Computers / Computer Science
    Mar 17 2026
    It's episode 228 and time for us to talk about Computers and Computer Science books! We discuss technology, digital humanities, coding, 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…) Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (2016)Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (2022) I could not find a free version of this online Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip (2021)The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games Paperback by Elliot Lichtman (2025)Must Know High School Computer Programming by Julie Sway (2020) In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999)A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu (2016)Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (2012) Other Media We Mentioned The Soul of the New Machine by Tracy KidderClose to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents San Francisco by Ellen UllmanLife in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen UllmanClickArt 65,000Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999)Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson Mother Earth Mother Board Links, Articles, and Things Separating the data from the CHAFF by Matthew Murray 🦇, Fernando Rios, and Seth Erickson9-track tape Academic Book About Emojis Can't Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of CopyrightMedia Archaeology LabAlice Averlong (formerly Foone)READMEInstitute for Advanced Study 15 Computer Science 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. Job Ready Java by Haythem Balti and Alan Galloway Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People by Aditya Y. Bhargava More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media by Bronwyn Carlson and Ryan Frazer Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age by Joseph Migga Kizza Code for What? Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice by Clifford Lee & Elisabeth Soep AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh Creative Coding in Python: 30+ Programming Projects in Art, Games, and More by Sheena Vaidyanathan A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online by Jennifer Wemigwans System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide by Alex Xu Number Theory for Computing by Song Y. Yan 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, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty) Then on Tuesday, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media Update!
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  • Episode 227 - Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable

    Episode 227 - Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable
    Mar 3 2026

    It's episode 227 and time for an emergency backup episode! This episode is the audio version of "Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable" a presentation we gave for the 2022 Ontario Library Association's RA in a Day event. There's also a video version on our YouTube channel.

    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

    Video version

    • https://youtu.be/hi_C_O_GLIA

    Slides

    • https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/presentations/7s75df43s

    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, March 17th when we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea).

    Then on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty).
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    53 m
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