Required Reading

Grab your gear, we're looking for dragons. Ashley Westover joins me to discuss Dugald Steer's interactive DRAGONOLOGY and his OLOGIES series! Support the podcast! Follow Ashley's podcast QueerPG! Follow Erin!

Its a Required Reading first - childhood friend Hua Chen joins Erin to discuss a book they read together in Mr Swift's 10th grade English class: THE GRAPES OF WRATH, a book which both love, but could not remember. Spoiler: it's really good!

This week writer and artist Emily Caulfield joins me to discuss Sydney Taylor's ALL OF A KIND FAMILY! I can't believe we recorded the whole episode and I forgot to ask what a Whatnot is!

Trigger warnings abound but its a goodie all the same - Zoë Dennis joins me to discuss Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar! The Bell Jar is the story of 19-year-old Esther Greenwood, the breakdown she experiences, and the beginnings of her recovery. The year is 1953 and Esther Greenwood, having finished college for the academic year, has won a one-month paid internship at Ladies Day magazine in...

ITS OUR TWENTIETH EPISODE!!!! A classic among classics, book one of the His Dark Materials series, The Golden Compass

ITS THE BODY EPISODE, MOM AND DAD DON"T LISTEN. Dive in to Valorie Lee Schaefer's THE CARE AND KEEPING OF YOU from American Girl Magazine in 1998.

We're going to the dump and making a swimming pool! Madeline Douglass joins us to talk Gertrude Chandler Warren's 1942 THE BOXCAR CHILDREN! Mystery grandfathers abound!

Grab the tissues, it's everyone's favorite heartbreaking dog book: Wilson Rawls' WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS

It's 2009 and you are in a Hot Topic. You are wearing glitter and a henley with a cami underneath. Your best friend is no longer speaking to you because she is team Jacob. This week, April Consalo joins me to discuss the horny 00s global phenomenon classic TWILIGHT

We take a little break to talk about the best books I read this year!

Its a little bit different this week! Krista Moy joins me to discuss the first spark of her acting career: Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Trigger warnings abound, take care and happy birthday! Follow Krista! Support the show! Follow Erin!

NEVER CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND YOU WHEN YOU GO INTO A WARDROBE!! Support the podcast! Follow Max! Follow Erin!

WE HAD MORE THINGS TO SAY!

New favorite episode alert??? Poet and production designer Katie Wilkerson joins me to discuss their adolescent favorite, JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

I went on vacation this week! Enjoy this little episode about what I'm reading (Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Jawbone by Monica Ojeda) and next week we'll be back with Katie Wilkerson to discuss CATCHER IN THE RYE!

Dearest friend Brandon Ginchereau takes us cross country and back PERCY JACKSON: THE LIGHTNING THIEF!

Our tenth episode is a jam packed deep dive into the world of Suzanne Collins' THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy with comedians Madi Hart (@madihart_soccer) and Keara Sullivan (@superkeara) - don't worry, we'll have more Hunger Games soon!

Allison Reese joins us to break down Meg Cabot's 2000 masterpiece THE PRINCESS DIARIES.

Got your black ballet flats? What about your pink army print purse? Lana Schwartz takes us to the five boroughs of 2002 with Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar!

What is it, a convenience store in here? Lizzie Logan takes us back to the days of Britney and Christina with Rachel Cohn's POP PRINCESS!

Favorite book alert: Yamini Nambimadom takes us all the way to the steps of the Met with EL Konigsburg's From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler!

Comedian Jenny Cavallero joins us to discuss the ins and outs (and stairs) of all 30 stories of Wayside School! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of fatphobia approx. 20:00-25:00

Lillian Stone takes us back to 1871 with Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods where we learn about sugar snow, smokehouses, and a lot of corn.

Adriene Vento joins us to discuss Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey, part 12 in the Adventures of Bailey School Kids series! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of fatphobia 20:20-22:00

Elizabeth Valenti discusses David Shannon's A Bad Case of Stripes! TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of violence against LGBTQ+ people 13:40-14:20. If you'd like to read along, our next book is Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers by Debbie Dadey and Marcia T Jones