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This episode we're discussing the topic(?) of Indie Publishers! We talk about how to define an indie publisher, weirdo metro stories, song lyrics, 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 Join our Discord Server! Things We Read (or tried to…) Trial of the Clone: An Interactive Adventure! by Zach Weinersmith and Chris Jones Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure by Hazel Jane Plante Video of the reading that Jam bought their books at last year! A Short Journey by Car by Liam Durcan Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power by Rebecca Solnit Of Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly Wang Other Media We Mentioned What About Crowdfunded Comics? by Matthew Murray 🦇 and Mara L. Thacker Podcast version How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley When I Arrived at the Castle by E. M. Carroll Boy Island by Leo Fox Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett Links, Articles, and Things Image Comics (Wikipedia) Creative Commons SkyTrain (Vancouver) (Wikipedia) Oulipo (Wikipedia) Podcast episode where one host tries not to say the letter "e" Denver Small Press Fest Spaghettieis (Wikipedia) "spaghetti ice cream" 45 New & Forthcoming Indie Press Books by BIPOC 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. Fiction Weird Black Girls: Stories by Elwin Cotman (AK Press) False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K'Wan (Akashic Books) Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago Books) Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press) These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere (Catapult) The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Catapult) Cecilia by K-Ming Chang (Coffee House Press) Fog & Car by Eugene Lim (Coffee House Press) We're Safe When We're Alone by Nghiem Tran (Coffee House Press) A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Counterpoint Press) Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle, translated by Heather Houde (Feminist Press) The Default World by Naomi Kanakia (Feminist Press) The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel (Feminist Press) I'll Give You a Reason by Annell López (Feminist Press) Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by Jennifer Feeley (Feminist Press) Outcaste by Sheila James (Goose Lane Editions) Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (House of Anansi Press) Dad, I Miss You by Nadia Sammurtok, illustrated by Simji Park (Inhabit Media) Secrets of the Snakestone by Pia DasGupta (Nosy Crow) The Burrow by Melanie Cheng (Tin House) Masquerade by Mike Fu (Tin House) The World With Its Mouth Open: Stories by Zahid Rafiq (Tin House) I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall (Soft Skull Press) Non-Fiction RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D and Kathy Lopez (Akashic Books) All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press) Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee (Catapult) My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents by Jennifer Neal (Catapult) Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant's Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe by Deja Vu Prem (Catapult) Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco (Coffee House Press) Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha LaPointe (Counterpoint Press) Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience by Alpha Nkuranga (Goose Lane Editions) Jinny Yu (At Once/À La Fois) by Jinny Yu (Goose Lane Editions) Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross (LittlePuss Press) Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions) World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions) Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar (Soft Skull Press) The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa (Tin House) Black Meme: The History of the Images That Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso Books) Poetry i heard a crow before i was born by Jules Delorme (Goose Lane Editions) We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu (Haymarket Books) A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks (Haymarket Books) [...] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) Comics A Witch's Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly) Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Drawn & Quarterly) Lost at Windy River by Jillian Dolan, Trina Rathgeber and Alina Pete (Orca Books) Give us feedback! 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