Reading Envy 040: Proustian Ratatouille

Jenny stayed closer to home for this episode, to talk comics with local teen services librarian and Secret Stacks podcaster, Thomas Maluck. The podcast starts and ends with comics but if that isn't your speed, there are other books discussed in the middle.  Jenny isn't really an expert in comics either, and soon learned she may never be as much of an expert as Thomas! Talk about envy - this is an entire genre practically unexplored.

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Books discussed:



Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Richard Stacewicz
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Hank Johnson: Agent of Hydra #1 by David Mandel

Other mentions:

ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2015 list
Comics, Cosplay, and Geek Culture in Libraries blog
How to Do Free Comic Book Day at Your Library - blog post by Kristin from Secret Stacks
Mark Millar
Neonomicon by Alan Moore
Secret Stacks Podcast Episode 6 - Fun Home and Duke, etc.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
New York Comic Con
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
Dykes to Watch Out For (web comic) by Alison Bechdel
Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio edited by Ed Madden and Candace Chellew-Hodge
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast
In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel
Ratatouille (movie)
Cages by Dave McKean
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (movie)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Spirited Away (movie)
Princess Mononoke (movie)
From Up On Poppy Hill (movie)
The Goshawk by T.H. White
The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Thanks for listening!

Here's Thomas as Ms. Marvel:

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Jenny at Goodreads
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Thomas on Twitter
Secret Stacks on Twitter
Secret Stacks Podcast ("YOUR comics in libraries podcast")
Thomas's graphic novel reviews at No Flying No Tights

Related Reading Envy Episodes:
Episode 004 - Home, Frightening and Banned with guest Karen Acosta
Episode 005 - The Second Definition of Geek with guest Tamahome
 

Reading Envy 017: Homeric Radiation at Lake Inverness

In this episode we bring our pal Luke Burrage, who was recording past midnight in Berlin for Episode 017.

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Books discussed:

 

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald
what the world will look like when the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Son of God in the Roman World by Michael Peppard
As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher


Other books and topics that came up along the way:
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, the new audiobook
The "Bryan List" of post-modern literature (see comments on Reading Envy Episode 003)
SFF Audio Odyssey readalong (first of six episodes)
Engaging the Powers by Walter Wink
Find Me by Laura van den Berg
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
George Singleton, author
George Saunders, author
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Gladiator, the movie, which Jenny has never seen
Les Miserables, the movie, where Russell Crowe sings
Les Miserables, the 25th anniversary tv special

You can find Luke Burrage, international juggler and entertainer, on his website.  He is also known for the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, where he reviews every single science fiction book that he reads.

More stalking:
Jenny at GoodReads
Scott at GoodReads
Jenny on Twitter
Scott on Twitter
Scott on his blog