The Req Room with Mandy and Mio
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Idiot (Elif Batuman)
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mandy and Mio discuss The Idiot by Elif Batuman, a semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman's freshman year at Harvard College...
Suite
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth studio album from British folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling, Once I Was an Eagle (2013), opens with a sequence that weaves seamlessly fr...
The History Boys
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Mio first saw The History Boys in high school, he might've been too young to unpack what was going on. But fifteen years after the film adaptatio...
Lady Bird
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our real summer has just begun! Mandy and Mio kick the new semester off with a review of the 2017 film Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Me...
The Falcon, The Winter Soldier, His Wanda, and Her Vision
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the New Adventures of the Old Req Room! In this bonus episode, Mandy and Mio begin to break the format, moving away from prose fiction to d...
Grand Union with Mags Ocampo
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the miniseries finale, Mandy and Mio enlist the help of special guest MAGS OCAMPO (Homeroom Co-op) to pick three stories from Grand Union, Zadie Sm...
Swing Time
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Mandy and Mio (re)visit Swing Time, a book they both read in the past and didn't like all that much, only to find out that they li...
NW
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TFW you're not sure if you like a book and so you talk about it with your best friend and then after about an hour of faffing around, you both realize...
On Beauty with Jam Pascual
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're b-b-b-b-b-b-ack, baybee!!!! Our first episode of 2021 explores Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, which tells the story of two diametrically-...
The CHRISTMAS BREAK Episode
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas break is now in session! On the last episode of the year, Mandy and Mio check in on each other, promising not to ask questions that are "too...
The Autograph Man
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Autograph Man (2002) is the second novel by Zadie Smith, following a British-Chinese-Jewish man who deals in famous memorabilia to an almost relig...
White Teeth
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When White Teeth was published in 2000, Zadie Smith was quickly lauded as the newest sensation of Western letters. However, the book did have its fair...
Reading Break I
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, we are the shining contemporary podcast, Req Room with Mandy and Mio! This week, we decided to take a... erm, break from reading, and throw som...
Circe
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Circe (2018) is the second novel by Madeline Miller, shifting the lens to focus on one of The Odyssey's most compelling and overlooked characters. But...
The Song of Achilles
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's the start of a new miniseries at The Req Room! Madeline Miller jumped onto the scene with the breakout of her first novel The Song of Achilles (2...
Normal People
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Or as John Legend calls them—ordinary people. In this week's episode, Mandy and Mio explore how Sally Rooney's sophomore novel became the sleeper hi...
Conversations with Friends
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Req Room! In our first ever episode, we dive deep into Conversations with Friends (2017), the debut novel from Irish literary wunderkin...
Welcome to The Req Room!
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We announce our first ever miniseries in this short trailer, which is a great sneak peek of how Mandy and Mio actually talk to each other. Really! The...