Welcome to episode 2 of The Outrider Podcast with Jenn Zuko and Jason Quinn Malott
Today, we talk about the core foundation of story and how genre, at least as we understand it in the age of book marketing and mega-publishers, is irrelevant to the quality of the story and is actually a means to ghettoize and segregate readers so that they can be more easily marketed to.
Some of our intake:
Our Idiot Brother and my essay on Medium
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garci Marquez
Glory Guitars: Memoir of a 90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl by Gogo Germaine
The Hellhound Heart, by Clive Barker
Philip Pullman’s Carnegie Medal speech - I cannot find a Pullman-approved version of this. Just an unlinked, unsourced version on blog. Search for it on your own. I don’t like linking to unverified sources.
Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record by Andy Saunders
Whenever He Sees a Wet Spot, He Has to Lick It.
The Persistent State of Meh. A Happy Show.
The Numbers Say We Suck, But That’s Just The Algorithm.
Aaaaargh! So, How Are Your Anger Issues Tonight?
Come and Live in Kansas for Ten Years, Ya Sh*tstick.
Sorry We’re so Tardy, but We Had a Little Party . . .
Plot Is Great, but Have You Tried Foucault-ing Off?
Distilled Spirits of Foucault
And I Made It With My Own Two Hands
Accept Discomfort
Crafty, Crafty or You Ain’t Betty Crocker, Quit Baking Her Cakes.
SOLIDARITY NOW!.
The Outrider Podcast: A Face-to-Face with Mimosas
We are not the popular kids.
The Outrider Podcast: 1-23:The Heroine with 1,001Faces
The Outrider Podcast Episode 168: The Carrier Bag
New Episodes Coming Soon!
Ep 4: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Ep 3: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
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