Episodes

Ep #5 | milk and honey by Rupi Kaur with guest Poison Oak! 10.06.2026 1:28:11

Episode notes: unedited transcript (to be edited) Poison Oak's website!!!!!!! Poison Oak's Instagram!!!!!!! buy milk and honey here! find Rupi Kaur's website (including dates and tickets for her 2026 summer residency in Brooklyn) here! One Plus One: Rupi Kaur by Jane Hutcheon (ABC News, May 2017) "To be a child of diaspora: The irreconcilable outsider in Sikh discourse" by Conner Singh VanderBeek...

Ep #4 | The Free People's Village by Sim Kern 09.02.2026 1:19:31

Episode notes: transcript buy The Free People's Village here! support Sim Kern on Patreon here! Sim Kern's website, including links to their book influencing and activist platforms, here - contribute to their fundraisers on linktr.ee "Houston abolished its ward system 120 years ago today, but its legacy still shapes the city" by Jhair Romero (Houston Chronicle, December 2024) "What the War on Terr...

Ep #3 | The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 15.01.2026 1:11:34

Episode notes: transcript buy The Housemaid here! Freida McFadden's very genre-appropriate website The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes (we talk in greater detail about this in a future episode) The Housemaid film trailer "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Rest Cure Revisited" by Diana Martin, M.D. (The American Journal of Psychiatry Online) "Meet the Boston Brain Doctor...

Ep #2 | Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid 23.12.2025 1:12:05

Episode notes: transcript link buy Heated Rivalry here! Rachel Reid's website ( and bonus link to her blog post about Parkinson's, which Iliria really appreciated ) Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei bonus link to hockey romances by Iliria's friend, Ari Baran :) Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson The Riveters 😢 "There are no out NHL players. Could Heated Rivalry change th...

Ep #1 | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace 16.12.2025 1:15:23

Note for Patreon followers: reposting for Spotify and Apple listeners, so they can hear the whole episode :^) Episode notes: transcript link buy Icebreaker here at bookshop.org ! Hannah Grace's charming personal website Icebreaker next to Diary of a Wimpy Kid at Costco the Ballerina Farms exposé (Megan Agnew's 2024 article "Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' and her eight children") Licensing Ente...

[PREVIEW] Ep #1 | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace 14.12.2025 10:00

Episode notes: transcript link buy Icebreaker here at bookshop.org! Hannah Grace's charming personal website Icebreaker next to Diary of a Wimpy Kid at Costco the Ballerina Farms exposé (Megan Agnew's 2024 article "Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' and her eight children") Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 by William B. Warner What we're reading: Kather...