Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re playing the storytelling game Plucky Kid Detective! Charles and Meep investigate the summer reading club kickoff party’s missing cake! Will they find out who the thief was? Plus: Dog Person, fedora wearing robots, maps, clues, thrilling escapes, and more!

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Links, Articles, and Media We Mentioned

• Plucky Kid Detective by anna anthropy and Remy Boydell.
• Library Punk episode 014 - Manga (featuring Matthew!)
• Nancy Drew (Wikipedia)
• Encyclopedia Brown (Wikipedia)
• Penny (Inspector Gadget Wiki)
• Beaker (Muppet Wiki)
• Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
• Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
• Confetti cake (Wikipedia)
• Acme Corporation (Wikipedia)
  • Acme Products (TV Tropes)
• Bubble and squeak (Wikipedia)
• Circus Windows by John Allison

15 Zines 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 to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Zines listed below without an author were created by multiple authors, groups, or collectives. Find even more zines by BIPOC creators via Brown Recluse distro and Indigenous Action.

• ABOLISH TIME by Estelle Ellison
• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
• Against Carceral Feminism by Victoria Law
• Against Japanese 'Comfort Women' Denialism in the U.S. by Emi Koyama
• Back to Nappy: Guide to Beautifully Regressing to Natural Hair by Roechelle Adair
• Black Indigenous Boy
• Black Lesbians in the 70s and Before - An At Home Tour At The Lesbian Herstory Archives by Shawn(ta) Smith
• Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories between Races and Cultures
• Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century by Zig Zag
• Decolonizing Parenting: A Zine By & For Queer Parents of Color
• Everyone Calls Themselves An Ally, Until It’s Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit
• The People's Zine Library 2019 Catalog: By and For BIPOC by Se'mana Thompson
• Mental Realness Mag: The Zine
• MXD Zine #1 - True Stories By Mixed Race Writers
• STRANGE FRUIT: The Twisted Mouth of Black Horror by Shiane D. Jacocks

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 6th when we’ll be reading Film/TV/Video/Movies non-fiction.

It’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, July 20th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read. (And yes, it will definitely happen this time.)