Library Pizza

That's a Whole Lotta Man with Tobias Carroll

This is the nineteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Tobias Carroll, a novelist, critic, newsletter author, podcaster, blogger, and columnist at Words Without Borders, where he writes "The Watch List," a monthly roundup of books in translation. He is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and may read more than just about anyone else I know. You can learn more about his work at tobiascarroll.com [http://www.tobiascarroll.com]. Texts and writers discussed include but are not limited to: The Dragon Waiting and The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford (and Isaac Butler's Slate piece on Ford's rediscovery); Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time; Peter David; Stephen King's Dark Tower series; Caroline Bicks's forthcoming Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King; J.R.R. Tolkien; Annie Proulx's The Shipping News; Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, The Road); Peter Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Killing Mister Watson; Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; Tom Robbins; Ishmael Reed; Gayl Jones's Corregidora; Toni Morrison; John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire; Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun; Jack Kerouac; Raymond Carver; Iain M. Banks; Patrick Rothfuss; Alasdair Gray's Poor Things (and the Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation); Sigrid Nunez's The Friend; John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman; Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon and Deathwatch (adapted from D.G. Compton's The Unsleeping Eye); Iain Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (and Charlie Kaufman's adaptation); Zach Cregger's Barbarian and Weapons; Joel and Ethan Coen's Barton Fink; Haley Z. Boston's Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen; Steve Erickson; Locus; Robert Christgau; Tricia Romano's The Freaks Came Out to Write; Colson Whitehead; Namwali Serpell; Sam Tanenhaus's Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America; Joan Didion; the National Review; the Know Your Enemy podcast; Robert A. Heinlein; Elizabeth Sandifer; the Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies affair; Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone; Brian Eno on art as nourishment; BBC audio dramatist Julian Simpson; Adam Voith's TNI Books and Little Engines; and Todd Dills and The Second Hand. Follow me on Bluesky here [https://bsky.app/profile/mikemeginnis.bsky.social], and Tobias here [https://bsky.app/profile/tobiascarroll.bsky.social]. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv [https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv] My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

The Pleasures of Cultivation with Adam Gurri

This is the eighteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Liberal Currents [https://www.liberalcurrents.com/] founder and editor Adam Gurri. Follow me on Bluesky here [https://bsky.app/profile/mikemeginnis.bsky.social], and Adam here [https://bsky.app/profile/adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com]. Texts discussed in this episode include but are not limited to: * Mother of Learning [https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning] by nobody103 * Return of the Mad Demon [https://www.webtoons.com/en/historical/return-of-the-mad-demon/list?title_no=3671] by JP, Ihy, and based on a work by Yu Jin sung * Elder Cultivator [https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42441/elder-cultivator] by Halosty * How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard * The work of John Rawls generally * On Liberty by John Stuart Mill * The works of John Locke generally * The works of Hans Georg Gottheimer generally * A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective by Steven L. Taylor, Matthew Søberg Shugart, Bernard Grofman, and Arend Lijphart * Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom by Jacob T. Levy You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv [https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv] My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

Table for Two: Our Man in the Field Dons the Cowboy Hat of Freedom

This is the sixteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my partner Tracy Rae Bowling, our AWP conference correspondent. The main books we discuss are C. Thi Nguyen's The Score and Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem. Follow me on Bluesky here [https://bsky.app/profile/mikemeginnis.bsky.social]. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv [https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv] My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

The Story that I Want to Tell with Samantha Hancox-Li

This is the sixteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Samantha Hancox-Li, an associate editor at Liberal Currents and the author of a book titled Feminism Is Transhumanism Is Modernity [https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-proposal-is-127933745]. You can support her on patreon here [https://www.patreon.com/c/sjshancoxli/]. Follow me on Bluesky here [https://bsky.app/profile/mikemeginnis.bsky.social], and Samantha here [https://bsky.app/profile/sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com]. I'll add a list of readings to these show notes later; I reinvented my entire podcast workflow while editing this episode and some stuff hasn't quite come together yet. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv [https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv] My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

Personal Pan Pizza: The Death of the Book World, plus Orhan Pamuk

This is the fifteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This episode quotes at some length from Becca Rothfeld's February 10 New Yorker article "The Death of Book World" [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-death-of-book-world]. It also features a reading of an excerpt from The New Life. Follow me on Bluesky here [https://bsky.app/profile/mikemeginnis.bsky.social]. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv [https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv] My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.