Reading Glasses

Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara
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Aug 23, 2018 • 45min

Ep 63 - Tweets That You Ask For and Anne T. Donahue

Brea and Mallory talk about essays and essay collections and interview author Anne H. Donahue! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch Links -   Anne T. Donahue https://twitter.com/annetdonahue Nobody Cares by Anne T Donahue       Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List   Books Mentioned - Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson   Borderline by Mishell Baker Wicked by Gregory Maguire Grendel by John Gardner The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley   They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib   Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling   100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl   You Don’t Have to Like Me by Alida Nugent One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul   The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman   Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan   Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton   Ctrl Alt Delete by Emma Gannon  
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Aug 16, 2018 • 38min

Ep 62 - No Trivia Books in the Bathroom and Andy McElfresh!

Brea and Mallory talk about trivia books and interview author and podcaster Andy McElfresh. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch - NEW T-SHIRTS!   Links - Transit App Andy McElfresh https://twitter.com/edumacationandy The Edumacation Book Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Spider Season by Billy Hanson Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson Bears Can’t Run Downhill by Robert Anwood Random Illustrated Facts by Mike Lowery Thank You for Being a Friend by Emma Lewis, illustrated by Chantel Desousa The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer   Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje    
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Aug 9, 2018 • 37min

Ep 61 - Library Stew with Brazos Price

Brea and Mallory answer some behind the scene library questions with librarian Brazos Price! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch   Sponsor - Audible https://www.audible.com/glasses Or! Text “glasses” to 500-500   Links - Watch Brea’s movie - Dead Night! Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Column   Amazon Wish List   More Libraries Than McDonald’s Does The Dog Die   Books Mentioned - Like Brothers by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut The Magicians by Lev Grossman Tamora Pierce The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir   Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard    
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Aug 2, 2018 • 32min

Ep 60 - F*&k That Whale and Other Public Domain Books

Brea and Mallory discuss public domain books and solve some book light problems. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Librivox Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Florida by Lauren Groff Sweet and Low by Nick White Find Me by Laura Van Den Burg   Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Dune by Frank Herbert    
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Jul 26, 2018 • 37min

Pop Up Video for Books and Anthony Oliveira!

Brea and Mallory talk about annotated books and interview writer and scholar Anthony Oliveira. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Simple Contacts - simplecontacts.com/reading or use the code reading at check out   Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List Anthony Oliveira https://www.patreon.com/meakoopa Anthony's Twitter   Books Mentioned - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Yes Please by Amy Poehler In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire Room To Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud The Prince and The Dressmaker by Jen Wang The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, translated by Richard Howard Paradise Lost by John Milton   Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson    
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Jul 19, 2018 • 1h 5min

Ep 58 - Reading Sword and Glasses Laser - Crossover Episode!

Oh man! It’s our first crossover episode! We’re doing an episode with Sword and Laser! Brea, Veronica, Mallory and Tom solve a reader problem and discuss the book Mortal Engines! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch   Links - Sword and Laser https://twitter.com/swordandlaser Tom Merritt Veronica Belmont Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List Captain Kirk Bourbon   Locus Award Winners   Pulp Sabotage by Richard Kadrey Books Mentioned - Mortal Engines by Philip Reeves Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan The Changeling by Victor LaValle Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders    
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Jul 12, 2018 • 44min

Ep 57 - Books That Changed Your Life and Guy Branum!

Brea and Mallory talk about books that have changed our lives and interview author and comedian Guy Branum. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch     Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List The Last Bookstore event with A.J.K. Donnell   Guy Branum https://twitter.com/guybranum   Pre Order My Life As A Goddess   Pop Rocket Talk Show The Game Show Books Mentioned -   Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix How to be Famous: A Novel by Caitlin Moran The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan   We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Where I Was From by Joan Didion Mythologies by Roland Barthes Maurice by E.M. Forster The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston   Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Decca by Jessica Mitford Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford   Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Hawkeye: Kate Bishop vol 1 by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero    
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Jul 5, 2018 • 48min

Ep 56 - So Many Crimes and Billy Jensen!

Brea and Mallory talk about true crime books and interview author and investigative journalist Billy Jensen. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch Links - Pre-Order Mallory’s Book! The Lady from the Black Lagoon Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta   Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List True Crime Article Billy Jensen https://twitter.com/Billyjensen   Books Mentioned - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry   Alice + Freda Forever by Alexis Coe People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Perry American Fire by Monica Hesse I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara   Bad Blood by John Carreyrou   The Alienist by Caleb Carr   The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson   Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix   We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson    
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Jun 28, 2018 • 49min

Ep 55 - Should You be Afraid of the Bermuda Triangle and Oh No Ross and Carrie!’s Ross Blocher!

Brea and Mallory talk about spooky nonfiction with special guest, Ross Blocher, from Oh No Ross and Carrie! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch Links -   Oh No Ross and Carrie http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/oh-no-ross-and-carrie   Kid Lit Says No Kids In Cages Pre-Order Mallory’s Book! The Lady from the Black Lagoon Reading Glasses Live Event 7/1 NoveList Plus Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Gulp by Mary Roach Night Shift by Joanna Angel   The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Stories from the Messengers by Mike Clelland The Alienist by Caleb Carr Abominable Science! by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero Stiff by Mary Roach Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum   The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum   Ghostland by Colin Dickey Trolls by John Lindow Scream by Margee Kerr   The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan   Flim Flam by James Randi   Death from the Skies! by Philip Plait Abducted by Susan A. Clancy From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson   Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean Psychic Blues by Mark Edward Conspiracies Declassified by Brian Dunning Dealing with Demons by Bob Larson Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix   Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson   The Martian by Andy Weir The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey    
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Jun 21, 2018 • 31min

Ep 54 - Reading is Dangerous and Other Health Tips

Brea and Mallory talk about reader health and try listening to sped up audiobooks. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch   Links - Brit Lit Podcast Live Event with Paul Tremblay 7/1 Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta   Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List     Books Mentioned - The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Mem by Bethany C. Morrow The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin Sweet and Low by Nick White Time Was by Ian McDonald    

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