More than the Sum of its Parts: Writing Beyond Tropes and Easter Eggs
On“Here’s my new novel, A Groan of Stone and Bone. It has enemies to lovers, a chaotic bisexual, BIPOC representation, elemental magic, and tons of ‘Buffy’ references!”
Rite Gud: The Squeequel
OnBecause ‘squeecore’ got so big, we decided to revisit it to address some of the discourse it generated—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Rite Gud: A Bear-y Special Episode
OnIt is time to talk about Bear, Marian Engel’s 1976 Canadian novel about a mousy librarian who falls in love with a bear.
Rite Gud: A Guide to Squeecore—Transcript
OnThanks to Rite Gud listener @gynoidgearhead, we now have a “Guide to Squeecore” transcript—read along with the audio!
A Guide to Squeecore
OnWhat is squeecore? You’re soaking in it! Squeecore is the dominant literary movement in contemporary SFF, a movement so ubiquitous it’s nearly invisible.
HeadClog in the Operator: Tux & Fanny: The Game Creators Albert Birney & Gabriel Koenig
OnJeremiah Aulwurm talks to Albert Birney and Gabriel Koenig, the creators of the Tux and Fanny Video Game (Kittysneezes 2021 Game of the Year).
HeadClog in the Operator: Leo “LaserFrog” Wichtowski
OnLeo “LaserFrog” Wichtoski is currently streaming Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm GMT. Previously he created the “Leo Takes A Look” series for the video game website kotaku.com and the video poetry series “Run, Play, Think!” on Youtube.
Chemical Playschool 10
OnEdward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
John Langan on Cosmic Horror
OnBram Stoker Award-winning author John Langan joins us to talk about cosmic horror, his novel The Fisherman, upstate New York, how much money writers make (none), and how hard it is to get published when you’re a little too literary for the genre crowd but a little too genre for the literary crowd.
Hallway of the Gods
OnA review of ‘Hallway of the Gods’, the most accessible Legendary Pink Dots album of the 1990s. A rare achievement with some real bangers!