Library Pizza

This is the nineteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Tobias Carroll, a novelist, critic, newsletter author, podcaster, blogger, and columnist at Words Without Borders, where he writes "The Watch List," a monthly roundup of books in translation. He is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and may read...

This is the eighteenth episode of Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Liberal Currents founder and editor Adam Gurri.  Follow me on Bluesky  here , and Adam  here . Texts discussed in this episode include but are not limited to: Mother of Learning by nobody103 Return of the Mad Demon by JP, Ihy, and based on a work by Yu Jin s...

This is the sixteenth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my partner Tracy Rae Bowling, our AWP conference correspondent. The main books we discuss are C. Thi Nguyen's The Score and Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem. Follow me on Bluesky here . You can and should join Disc Horse , the Library Pizza discord,...

This is the sixteenth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Samantha Hancox-Li, an associate editor at Liberal Currents and the author of a book titled  Feminism Is Transhumanism Is Modernity . You can support her on patreon here . Follow me on Bluesky  here , and Samantha  here . I'll add a list of readings to these...

This is the fifteenth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This episode quotes at some length from Becca Rothfeld's February 10  New Yorker article "The Death of Book World" . It also features a reading of an excerpt from The New Life .  Follow me on Bluesky  here . You can and should join  Disc Horse , the Library Pizza discord, at  ht...

This is the fourteenth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. Tracy Rae Bowling and I discuss our local-arts-cinema-hosted Twin Peaks full-series marathon, what we've been reading, getting big into the baked potato, and the work of several movie directors. We also invent a lucrative new concept, the Boyby-Sitters Club. Texts discussed inc...

This is the thirteenth episode of Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Adam Elkus . The Other Side by Alfred Kubin Franz Kafka generally H. P. Lovecraft generally The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger The Ring novels by Koji Suzuki Neuromancer  by William Gibson The Maltese Falcon by Dashie...

This is the twelfth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week, Tracy Rae Bowling and I discussed how insane this year is already making us feel, our experiences with various youth programs, and the different kinds of reading resolutions that we might consider. The following are the links to the articles from which we borrowed the r...

This is the eleventh episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. For this week's Personal Pan Holiday Special, I decided to do something a little bit different, sharing with you an essay that I wrote about my time as a writer in residence in South Korea, plus a guide that I wrote for others who participate in the residency in the future. I hop...

This is the tenth episode of Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Buzz Poole, cofounder of Sandorf Passage . Texts discussed include but are not limited to: Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost by Donald Niedekker, translated by Jonathan Reeder Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić...

This is the ninth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. Last week, Tracy and I took a vacation to Kansas City, where we enjoyed the art museum, two jazz clubs, several eateries, one bar, and one used book store. We discuss our experience and used book stores generally, as well as our respective bachelorette parties and the marital applic...

This is the eighth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week, Tracy and I get together for a conversation on visual novels, especially The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy . Other visual novels you might want to check out: the Danganronpa series, the Zero Escape series, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim , the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney s...

This is the seventh episode of Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest unfortunately fell through, so it's going up slightly late, and the format is a bit different. This time I read excerpts from three pieces: 03:05 - "The Guy with the Eyes," a short story by Spider Robinson 13:38 - An excerpt from The Fawn , by Magda Szabó 31:20 -...

This is the sixth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Ed "from Bluesky" Roppel, one of the four cohosts of "Normal Men", the only podcast on Bluesky. He blogs at ed3d.net . Texts and writers discussed include but are not limited to the Foundation series, Robert Heinlein, John W. Campbell, Ben Bova, Spider Robinson...

This is the fifth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Rachel Jane Andelman, a writer, performer, and improv coach in the Boston area. She has taught at ImprovBoston and Union Comedy. She currently performs improv with independent casts Tales of Enstonishment and Magic: The Gathering: The Show, as well as her stand-...

This is the fourth episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my friend Ned Resnikoff, an analyst, researcher, journalist, and consultant with a particular focus on housing and urban policy. Follow me on Bluesky  here , and Ned here . You'll learn about his forthcoming book Cities for the People in his pinned post. Ned's...

This is the third episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guests are my friends Lea, Anne, and Allie, the cohosts of my favorite wrestling podcast, Tunnel Talk . After an initial tooth and claw struggle for power, we settled in to discuss what we had been reading, dying from gender-induced sleep deprevation, the importance of b...

This is the second episode of  Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my friend Blorb, who is a cartoon pug. I met Blorb on a discord about professional wrestling, they did the art for this pod, and they are a delight. We talked about a bunch of books, furnipure, Culver's, and everything else. Follow Mike on Bluesky here , and Bl...

This is the first episode of Library Pizza , a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my partner, Tracy Rae Bowling. We discuss Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland , Yukio Mishima's Beautiful Star , and G-Fest 2025. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at  https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the...