Must-Listen: Bookish Podcast Episodes From Non-Bookish Podcasts

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You’re Wrong About: Go Ask Alice with Carmen Maria Machado (Part 1)

The podcast: Sarah Marshall and impermanent hosts look astatine past connected You’re Wrong About and find an event/person that was wrongly formed astatine the clip to speech about.

This bookish episode: This is simply a wholly bonkers communicative from the ’70s, that ties successful a caller publication that looks astatine the bonkers communicative and satanic panic and truthful galore things. Carmen Maria Machado, a fantastic author, joins Marshall successful this three-part occurrence (there’s truthful overmuch to speech about!) to sermon the 1970s YA publication Go Ask Alice, which was a published diary astir a cause addicted teen. Except present determination is simply a book, Unmask Alice, that dives into the writer of that publication and whether that book, and another, were ever adjacent real. In the third podcast episode the writer of Unmask Alice joins Marshall and Machado to speech astir this genuinely bananapants story.

Vibe Check: That’s Some Harry Potter Sh!t

The podcast: Three friends — Saeed Jones, Zach Stafford, and Sam Sanders — started Vibe Check to get unneurotic erstwhile a week to speech astir the large things going connected successful the quality and culture, portion checking successful with each different and themselves. It’s filled with heart, warmth, and humor.

This bookish episode: Before they get to talking astir the Emmys and Queen Elizabeth II’s death, Saeed Jones talks astir his publication circuit and reads a poem from his latest postulation Alive At The End Of The World. Which, is conscionable the champion title.

Normal Gossip: Righteous Lesbian Energy with Samantha Irby

The podcast: On Normal Gossip, Kelsey McKinney, on with guests, brings you anonymous gossip and stories from radical you’ll ne'er cognize truthful you tin play the crippled “Is existent beingness stranger/funnier than fiction?”

This bookish episode: The hilarious writer Samantha Irby joins McKinney to speech astir her narration with gossip (stress!). And past McKinney tells Irby the communicative astir 2 teens everyone tried to brace unneurotic who spell disconnected to assemblage separately and instrumentality backmost home, 1 confessing she’s a lesbian to marque radical halt trying to brace her disconnected with her person and the different trying to person his assemblage woman to delight determination to his hometown with him. And that’s each I’m going to springiness you truthful you tin bask proceeding the communicative connected your own.

5-4: The Pelican Brief

The podcast: On 5-4 Peter, Michael, and Rhiannon chat play astir however authorities signifier laws and however overmuch they consciousness the Supreme Court sucks.

This bookish episode: The hosts (re)watched The Pelican Brief adaptation, a ’90s movie based connected John Grisham’s aforesaid titled ineligible thriller. It stars Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, and Stanley Tucci arsenic a Middle Eastern assassin (problematic much?). They hilariously get into what works and doesn’t for the film, talking astir however the Supreme Court is ne'er utilized arsenic a absorption successful governmental films (there volition beryllium a governmental thriller TV show based connected Stacey Abrams governmental thriller focused connected the Supreme Court!). You get nostalgia if you watched it successful the ’90s and a comic reappraisal of an adaptation.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Screening Ourselves: The Color Purple

The podcast: As the rubric implies, Pop Culture Happy Hour dives into the buzziest popular civilization (books, games, film, TV, music…) 5 times a week. The abbreviated segments (15–30 minutes) are brought to you by journalists Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris, on with guests that are successful the popular civilization know.

This bookish episode: Aisha Harris takes a look astatine the 1985 movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. The absorption is connected however the movie was received otherwise by antithetic viewers.