Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

It's episode 231 and time for us to talk about Sapphic Horror! We discuss which monster is the most sapphic, unrealistic reality TV shows, and how queer a book has to be to count as sapphic. 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 Things We Read (or tried to…) Diavola by Jennifer Thorne The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen Night's Edge by Liz Kerin, read by Chase Sui Wonders Extasia by Claire Legrand The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin Moonflow by Bitter Karella This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa The Scourge Between the Stars by Ness Brown The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png Other Media We Mentioned Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire edited by Amber Dawn Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (contains Carmilla) Why was I invited to Beast Studios? by Folding Ideas Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review by Folding Ideas Killing Eve 18 Sapphic Horror by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast 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. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo The Salvage by Anbara Salam The Plans I Have for You by Lai Sanders On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon Chlorine by Jade Song The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we'll be talking about "Coming of (old) age," suggested to us by Meghan's mom. Then on Tuesday, June 16th, we'll each be pitching a book we think we should all read and you get to vote on which!