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 include:

1. C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series
2. Magda Szabó's novel Iza's Ballad
3. Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse
4. The Baby-Sitters Club
5. Michael Berry's Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke
6. Histories of China by Frank Dikötter
7. The works of Jia Zhangke and Satoshi Kon generally

We'll see you again soon.

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My thanks to Tracy for creating the podcast's theme music, and to my friend Blorb for the podcast's art.

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 Dashiell Hammett (and other Hammett works)
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Sherlock Holmes generally
• Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii
• Kobo Abe generally
• Truth from a Lie by Margaret S. Key
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
• The SCP Foundation
• "Sovereignty and the UFO" by Alexadner Wendt
• Philip K. Dick generally
• Undead Girl Murder Farce (anime)
• Paranoia Agent, directed by Satoshi Kon
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• The Twenty Days of Turin, again
• Writing by Venkatesh Rao
• The train game Mike mentions is called Rolling Line
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Clair Obscure: Expedition 33
• "Successor, Usurper, Replacement" by Alice Sola Kim
• "Trends of Japanese Science Fiction in the 2000s" by Motoko Tanaka
• Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu
• Haruki Murakami generally
• Evangelion, directed by Hideaki Anno
• The Count of Monte Cristo anime
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Alan Moore's run with the character Supreme

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You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv

My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

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 resolutions:

1. https://theconversation.com/what-are-your-new-years-reading-resolutions-6-dedicated-readers-share-theirs-269381
2. https://www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/new-years-reading-resolutions-2026
3. https://theeverygirl.com/reading-resolutions/
4. https://www.penguinteen.com/bookish-new-years-resolutions/

We'll see you again soon.

Follow me on Bluesky here.

You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv