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Today's sponsor is Kevin! He wants to remind you about books -- read 'em! If you'd like to sponsor us, you can reach out at InkSinkPodcast@gmail.com . Please direct any feedback for Kali to Annie's mailbox. This is the burden she's taken on herself. Read the best of Ogden Nash, now on our "Hater's Guide to Poetry" list! ( https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781566637039...

AI apps are taking my newsfeed by storm. Things like Midjourney and DALL-E (which make images) and ChatGPT (which makes text) are everywhere. Schools, businesses, and freelancers are all grappling with how to handle it. There are some wins, some losses, and some questions in the publishing business. Our sources for this episode: AI roundup from the Morning Brew: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/s...

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Time for part two of our Ink Sink Tropefest! Listen to part one where we covered The Chosen One and the Three Witches . In this episode, we cover Annie's favorite trope: Enemies to Lovers. We also cover one of the most maligned tropes in fiction: The Mary Sue. Check out our sources here: Some fan commentary from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/ue11mp/mary_sue_isnt_real_and_sh...

This week's news is full of questions, and we're diving deep. Follow us on social media and see our transcripts here: https://linktr.ee/inksinkpodcast Heard of the Icelandic Book Flood? Here's a deep dive: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/icelands-christmas-book-flood-is-a-force-of-nature-180981293/ Book ban update: foundations giving more money to help libraries buy books: https://www.publis...

Yes, Kali will make Annie cry today.  Check out the books we cover at our Bookshop storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/theinksink If you buy a book from one of our Bookshop lists, we may get a commission. But more importantly, Bookshop will donate a portion of the sale to a local independent bookstore. Support your local stores today! Our episode on what you can do with a BA in English: htt...

WELCOME BACK TO SEASON TWO! Holy shit, we're more than one person's favorite podcast on spotify! We started this last year because we just love this shit. We really appreciate all our supporters, you've made us feel like we can do this and you'll listen. We love you all so much. Season Two is going to be LIT. Some levity to start us off: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/books/review/literary-din...

Flashback to our very first episode! We started off spicy, diving into the "own voices" movement and its nuances. 

We've all opened our phones to the news that our favorite author/artist/hero is actually a massive problem of a person. What's a nerd to do? Kali and Annie dive into separating the art from the artist. Some of our sources may be paywalled, heads up! Journal of Popular Music Studies: https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/32/4/75/114312/Must-Be-Love-On-The-Brain-Feminist-responses-to Studies in Am...

Whimsy! Art! History! Listen to this replay of Episode 6: The Rise of Manga in the U.S. Sources:  Casey Brienza, Publishing Research Quarterly (2009), Books, Not Comics: Publishing Fields, Globalization, and Japanese Manga in the United States: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-009-9114-2 Toni Johnson-Woods, "Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives": https://worldcat.org/for...

Why are you seeing Dracula in your feed all of a sudden?  Enter Matt Kirkland and Dracula Daily -- a free newsletter that sends you dispatches from the classic novel.    We tackle how all this started, how wonderful the memes are, and what we want to see next.    Our sources:    Link to the substack: https://draculadaily.substack.com/about  Slate interview:...

The kids refuse to back down, and we couldn't be prouder.  Check out our Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/theinksink We usually see the other end of this, but here’s one where men answer the question women get often: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/wvecz1/what_is_something_women_who_write_male_characters/ Amid the deprioritization of news on FB, small U.S. news sources band t...

Research is in crisis. What can we do? We do a deep dive into the problems with the journal publishing industry.  Our sources this week: The Sokal Hoax: https://www.chronicle.com/article/bait-and-switch/ One solution to the preprint crisis: encouraging public comment to add context: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/02/28/guest-post-preprint-feedback-is-here-lets-make-it-constructive-a...

One of our favorite months, plus, Annie took a field trip. Listen now! This week's sources:  List of books by trans authors (from the Mary Sue): https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-trans-authors-the-mary-sue NaNoWriMo coming up! https://store.nanowrimo.org/pages/your-impact This list is from 2020, but still good: Nonprofits supporting literacy: https://bookriot.com/literacy-charities/ Judge b...

One of our frequently asked questions: If you're passionate about books and reading, how can you translate that into a career? Or, as they asked in Avenue Q, what do you do with a BA in English ? If you're interested in business analysis certifications, you can read more about those here .  We can't link to the editorial presentation on reading and writing skills in other industries, but you...

Batman will be coming out of copyright in the 2030s, we speculate on what a public domain dark knight would look like. Also, that segment turns into a plea to support AO3. We're not mad about it?  Today's sources:   A good look at some of the copyrighted works expiring soon and what culture could look like in the future: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-expiring-copyright-...

You asked, we listened! We're doing our very first book-to-screen episode on Stardust : books by Neil Gaiman, movie directed and written by Matthew Vaughn. We go through the illustrated novella, the full-length novel, the behind-the-scenes drama, and the movie reception.  You can see both versions of Stardust on our Bookshop.org page here .  We hope you enjoy!

The problem with you girly, is you read too much! Listen to the episode this week where we dive into the drama in the publishing world and figure out what's up with Barnes & Noble right now.  Our sources this week:  Our episode on the slow death of local news: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/17-Your-Neighborhood-Geeks-The-Sad-State-of-Your-Local-News-e1o765i Our "Dracula Dail...

Your local news is dying a slow death. Who's to blame? What can we do? And what do we lose when we lose local news? Listen now. Our sources for this episode: Our episode on fact-checking: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/11-The-First-Fact-Checker-Quit-After-Just-a-Few-Months-e1kqg8s Why it matters: local news is instrumental in things like missing person cases: https://www.washingtonpost.co...

Turns out publishing company CEOs have no idea what they're doing. Also, we have a hefty helping of news after the break.  We want to hear from you! Reach out to us at InkSinkPodcast@gmail.com !  Our sources this week:  A History of the midnight release party: https://bookriot.com/history-of-the-midnight-release-party/ Please please please please: https://www.poynter.org/business-wo...

Happy Labor Day! As a treat, you get to hear these two goofs being goofs. 

We've all opened our phones to the news that our favorite author/artist/hero is actually a massive problem of a person.  What's a nerd to do? Kali and Annie dive into separating the art from the artist.  Some of our sources may be paywalled, heads up! Journal of Popular Music Studies: https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/32/4/75/114312/Must-Be-Love-On-The-Brain-Feminist-responses-to S...

We're covering crimes that run the gamut this week. Should publishers own all digital books? Should libraries need to close to deal with the haters? Should the Spine Collector reach out to us personally to satisfy our curiosity?  Listen to the deep dive! EVERY TIME, THIS STORY JUST GETS MORE TANTILIZING. What is the plea agreement? What is the compensation? What was his fucking motive?????? h...

Why are you seeing Dracula in your feed all of a sudden? Enter Matt Kirkland and Dracula Daily -- a free newsletter that sends you dispatches from the classic novel.  We tackle how all this started, how wonderful the memes are, and what we want to see next.  Our sources:  Link to the substack: https://draculadaily.substack.com/about Slate interview: https://slate.com/culture/2022/05...

This week's news roundup is dominated by the big Digital News Report for 2022. We dive in and talk about social media, representation, and old people getting worried about the "youths" these days. Our sources this week:  Booksellers leader rallies for abortion rights: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4263&share=true#m56778 Comprehensive roundup on the publishers' side from...