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Book Club: In Cold Blood

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Book Club: Sadako Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

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The Sparrow

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Hearing Trumpet

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God Does Not Touch Philadelphia: The Gang Tackles 17776 by Jon Bois

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The Demolished Man

7

The Secret History

8

Geek Love

9

Gud By

10

Take Gud Care of Yourself (or: A Cure for Wellness)

11

Do the Hustle!

12

Escape From New York

13

The Glup Shitto Episode

14

Self-Publishing with Evan Dahm

15

Against Worldbuilding

16

I Just Wanted a Website That Was Fucking Normal

17

i Pony: Blueprint for a New America

18

Based & Rhino Pilled

19

Shock Value, or, Don’t Cut Yourself On That Edge

20

Putting Real Stuff in Your Fake Stuff

21

Losers, Failures and Fuck-Ups

22

Writing About Disability

23

Toothless Vampires

24

Eat Gud

25

(Don’t) Gotta Go Fast

26

Touch Grass

27

Fite Gud

28

More Bad Writing Advice

29

The Way to Write the Other is Not To Make the Other Into You

30

Seize the Press!

31

Boast in the Shell: Why AI Art is Overhyped

32

I Dream of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

33

Poster’s Elbow

34

Orc Gusano

35

Susan Sontag’s Notes on Sleepaway Camp

36

Filthy Lucre

37

Gentrified Horror

38

Writing TTRPGs

39

Talking about Comics with Wendy Xu

40

The Right’s War on Libraries

41

How We Read and Why

42

Sci-fi and Fantasy for Peasants

43

Diverse Sci-Fi/Fantasy of the 20th Century

44

Women Writers of the Pulp Era

45

No Plot Just Vibes

46

Writing Beyond the End of History

47

How To Start a Magazine for Fun and Absolutely No Profit

48

Space Racism, Oppressed Wizards, and Other Marginalized Fantasy Allegories

49

Writing Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum

50

Internet Fiction

51

Tales From the Slush Pile

52

Never Bring a Pen to a Sword Fight

53

A Rite Gud Minifesto

54

A Tribute to Garth Marenghi, World’s Greatest Author/Visionary/Dreamweaver

55

More than the Sum of its Parts: Writing Beyond Tropes and Easter Eggs

56

Rite Gud: The Squeequel

57

Rite Gud: A Bear-y Special Episode

58

A Guide to Squeecore

59

John Langan on Cosmic Horror

60

Cinderella Is Not a #Girlboss: The Problem With ‘Feminist’ Fairytale Adaptations

61

Puppy Play

62

How Books Happen, With Gretchen Felker-Martin

63

The Tragedy of the Creative Commons: On Superheroes and Modern Mythology

64

In Defense of Degenerate Art

65

This Is My Hole, It Was Made for Me: On Negative Space and Leaving Room for the Reader

66

Genre Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good

67

Why We Can Stop Flogging H.P. Lovecraft’s Dead Bloated Corpse

68

Meet the New Gatekeeper, Same as the Old Gatekeeper

69

So You Think You’re a Writer?

70

Queerness Is Not a Fandom

71

Books Are Not Movies: Writing the Invisible

72

To Be a Great Writer, You Must Defeat a Thousand Babies

73

Finding Beauty In Darkness

74

Saving Criticism from the Corporate Marketing Machine

75

Bad Writing Advice

76

I’m Not Here to Make Friends: On Unlikable Female Characters

77

Translation, or Mi Tio Es Infermo, Pero la Carretera Es Verde!

78

The Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings

79

Who Are You Talking To?

80

Writing About Sex Work

81

Telling Your Own Stories

82

Writing While the World Burns: What Does It Mean to Be a Writer During the Climate Crisis?

83

Transgressive Queer Fiction and the Right to Be Messy

84

Creepypasta and Other Eerie Starches

85

Writer Beware! Spotting Shady Agents, Vanity Presses and Other Scams

86

The Dark Side of Fandom Part 2: Friendship Simulator

87

The Dark Side of Fandom, Part 1: Have You Accepted Spider-Man as Your Lord and Savior?

88

Originality: Feh, Who Needs It?

89

No More Heroes with JR Dawson

90

Guns: How to Feature Them in a Realistic Way

91

Men Writing Women (Badly)

92

Writing Mary Sues, or What Even IS a Mary Sue?

93

The White Room, or Paying Attention to Sensory Details

94

Reed Gud, Part 2: Poetry, Literature in a Foreign Language, Nonfiction and Literary Criticism

95

Reed Gud, Part 1, or Other Books Than ‘Harry Potter’ Exist: Fiction

96

How To Write Dark Humor Without Sounding Like a Total Sociopath

97

Giving and Receiving Criticism Gracefully, or How Not to Be Anne Rice

98

This Garbage Brought to You By the Letters S-E-O: How Google Is Ruining Writing

99

Welcome to Rite Gud, a Podcast Dedicated to Helping You Write Better