A Meal of Thorns 55- Readercon & the PSRB

In this con-coverage episode, Casella talks to folks at Readercon in Boston, including Lisa from Narrated, author Sara S. Messenger, and editor Carl Engle-Laird. We also visit Porter Square Books, an indie bookstore that has recently launched their own book review.

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• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Readercon
• Porter Square Books
• Lisa from the Narrated podcast
• The Hugo Awards
• Elizabeth Bear’s White Space series
• C.J. Cherryh & Lois McMaster Bujold
• Sara S. Messenger
• “Jennifer’s Daughter” in Nightmare Magazine
• “When We Loved Giants” in Lightspeed
• Karel Čapek
• Hope Mirrlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist (good AMOT episode on that!)
• AMOT episode on Ready Player One
• Clark Seanor’s “Recycled Air: Wayfarers and the Tyranny of the Everyday” in Strange Horizons
• Lovestruck Books in last year’s Readercon episode
• Katherine @ Porter Square Books
• K.A. Applegate’s Animorphsseries
• Chuck Tingle
• Ann Patchett’s Whistler
• Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
• Roseanna Pendlebury’s review of Sour Cherry
• Sunny Moraine (from our Pattern Recognition episode)
• Will McMahon
• Scott Edelman’s Eating the Fantastic podcast
• Benjamin Rosenbaum (from our Fire Logic episode)
• Carl Engle-Laird, editor at Tor
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
• The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
• Jon Bois’ 17776
• Cambridge Porchfest & the Good Trouble Brass Band
• Gracenote & Broadsheet coffee
• Thomas Wensma has an interview with Australian barista champ Jack Simpson & coffee farmer Juan Pablo Campos about the Ombligon cultivar at Perfect Daily Grind, if that caught your ear
• Bujold’s Vorkosigan series & Barrayar
• Josh Cook of Porter Square Books & the Porter Square Review of Books
• PSB’s Bluesky
• Josh’s articles at LitHub
• Poly Barton’s What Am I, A Deer?
• Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps & Acid Green Velvet