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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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.

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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 hope you enjoy both, and I'll see you next year.

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

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, translated by Will Firth
• Cat at the End of the World by Robert Perišić, translated by Vesna Maric
• No Signal Area by Robert Perišić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
• She Who Remains by Rene Karabas, translated by Izidora Angel
• The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
• Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
• Horror and Huge Expenses by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth
• The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• James by Percivel Everett
• Stranger by C. J. Cherryh
• The works of Magda Szabo in general, of course
• The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
• Ice by Anna Kavan
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
• The works of C. S. Lewis
• The Witches by Roald Dahl

Buzz mentions writing an article for the Lit Hub that is partly about reading to his son; it's this: "The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings".

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

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 applications of Taco Bell hot sauce. Texts briefly discussed include Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest, Orhan Pamuk's The New Life, Michael H. Bruno's Pocket Pal, and Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel. Also, Lord Jim arguably catches some strays.

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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 series, The House in Fata Morgana, Dream Daddy, The Walking Dead, Batman: The Telltale Series, and other Telltale games. Disco Elysium has a lot in common with visual novels, but the writing is better.

In the back half of the episode, Tracy and I discuss the books we're reading. Texts mentioned include Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec, God's holy Bible, the works of Eula Biss in general, Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step by Cecile Pineda, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (again!), and Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Plus probably something else I'm forgetting.

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

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 - The first chapter of Iza's Ballad, by Magda Szabó

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