Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode it’s time for One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. We talk about spoilers, horse operas, spoilers, relationships, spoilers, queer coming-of-age stories, and spoilers. Plus: Spoilers!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

The Book We Read

• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Other Media We Mentioned

• River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Wikipedia)
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Wikipedia)
• The Walking Dead (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Links, Articles, and Things

• Horse Opera
• Episode 029 - Westerns
• Smart Bitches Trashy Books review of Upright Women Wanted
• Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read Changed my Life by Sarah Gailey

Jam’s Upright Women Wanted film cast comprised of internet tabletop roleplayers:

• Esther: Becca Scott
• Cye: Erika Ishii
• Bet: Krystina Arielle
• Leda: Ashley Johnson
• Amity: Aabria Iyengar

12+ International Noir Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts 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.

• Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle
• The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas
• The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim
• The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
• Real World by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Philip Gabriel
• Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
• A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi
• Nothing Is Lost by Cloé Mehdi, translated by Howard Curtis
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Morena-Garcia
• My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Sam Bett
• I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
• The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
• Plus many in the Akashic Books noir series, including:
• Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer
• Haiti Noir edited by Edwidge Danticat
• Manila Noir edited by Jessica Hagedorn
• Nairobi Noir edited by Peter Kimani
• Baghdad Noir edited by Samuel Shimon

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 3rd get ready for Halloween because we’ll be talking about the genre of Horror!

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