Episode 29: 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Before Maureen Johnson was writing about supernatural serial killers in London, she was writing showtune-singing serial killers in...Amsterdam? Carey and Marie talk whimsical world-tripping adventures, slapstick comedy, terrible musicals and the boys that write them, and how, in fact, we would spend $1000 from a dead aunt. Does being an artist give you a license to be a butt? Find out within!

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Content Notes

Grief, adults making bad decisions, teens making bad decisions, teens getting taken advantage of, sexual assault, internalized misogyny. In other words, 2005 YA in a book.

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Ep. 28: John Waters on a Kinetic Poodle: How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford

Are you out there? Can you hear us? We kick off our Hometown Series with Carey's Baltimore read, How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford. A boy, a girl, and a bond over weirdos calling into a radio show to laugh, live, and ride a magic carpet over Ocean City while surviving some very harsh truths about growing up. We discuss the strangeness of big cities and small fandoms, as well as solving the public transit problem in Baltimore (see: title).

How to Say Goodbye in Robot: Goodreads

Natalie Standiford: Website (visit this, cause there's great background material on the book!)

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Content Notes

Mental illness, mistreatment of the disabled, parental death, emotional abuser (parent/child), shitty teenage boys

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Show Notes

Daniel Pinkwater (he has a podcast too!)

How to Say Goodbye in Robot 8tracks mix

Fifi the Kinetic Poodle

Coast to Coast AM

WFMU

The Cotton Candy Road Trip

Everything Goes Book Cafe

The Secret Tree by Natalie Standiford

Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford

The Only Girl in School by Natalie Standiford

The Secret Apartment by Natalie Fast

We collaborated with Fuse 8 n' Kate on Kay Thompson's Eloise, and it was super fun!

Foster of the Podcast Sweet Pea who found a forever home last week!

How Maryland's Enchanted Forest Got Its Own Storybook Ending

Land of Make Believe

Storybook Land

Gingerbread Castle

Sleep With Me Podcast

Lizard People's call-in episode

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Readalikes

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Current Reads 

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choy

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds by Diane Ackerman

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Antihero's Journey: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Somebody put a bra on the library dome! It's not a 90s comedy middle grade book; it's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. Join us for chat about art as protest, why girls should treat girls with respect, and what YA character we think will head the CIA. 

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: Goodreads

E. Lockhart: website

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Content Notes

This is a book that deals with internalized misogyny, textually, and gender essentialism. There's a lot of both. There are teen boys dressing femme as a joke, and a lot of humor circling around what genders have what configurations. It can be a heavy read. We would love to see a 10th anniversary edition with an intro from the author on how things have changed...and how they haven't.

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Show Notes

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick (the Harriet the Spy essay is in this one!)

We did an episode on The Boyfriend List

Frankie Landau-Banks on neglected positives and imaginary neglected positives

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

You can get your own light up basset hound!

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Readalikes

Persons of Consequence by K.D. Hume

Shrill by Lindy West

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Current Reads

There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott

The Summer of Jordi Perez  by Amy Spalding

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She Still Sleeps With Her Battered Old Rag Doll: Juicy Writing by Brigid Lowry

Ostensibly this is an episode about the excellent Brigid Lowry and her excellent book, Juicy Writing. In real life, this is an episode about fatalism, childhood writing dreams, and the end of the world. Wayfinders, hold us to that poetry prompt!

Brigid Lowry: New Zealand Book Council , Interview at The Starfish

Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers 

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Guitar Highway Rose

Abbacadabra

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Things You Either Hate or Love

Joanne Horniman

Still Life With Teapot

Anastasia Krupnick

Harriet the Spy

The Betsy-Tacy Series

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

The Magic Attic Club

Natalie Goldberg

Judy Blume's teaching a writing class!

Our episode on Cassandra Golds' book, The Museum of Mary Child

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Readalikes

Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail: A Book about Writing and Other Things by Jacqueline Jackson

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Current Reads

The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process  by Francesca Lia Block

The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin

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Stay Out of the Forest: Tithe by Holly Black

Save the knight. Glamour your own self. Stay out of the forest. Easy enough, right? But Kaye Fierch, secret pixie heroine of Holly Black's Tithe, finds herself in a web of prophecy, deceit, and really wicked parties. Guest Heather Talty of Newtown Literacy Alliance joins us to talk Tam Lin, Asbury Park, the origins of dark fae in YA, and Labyrinth as a right of passage.

Tithe: Goodreads

Holly Black: Website, Twitter,  Tumblr, Pinterest

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Heather Talty is managing editor of Newtown Literacy Alliance, "a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting writers and writing in Queens, NY. Our flagship project is the publication of a semiannual literary journal featuring new work by writers living in or originally from the largest borough in New York City. We also hold free writing classes for adults, teens, and kids around the borough, and a biennial writing contest for kids and teens. Throughout the year, all over Queens, we hold readings, workshops, and other literary events." You can find her @heathertalty.

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We shared promos with Genre Junkies! Check them out if you love scifi, fantasy, and reading past your bedtime.

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Content Notes:

This book is real dark. There's murder, there's attempted sexual assault, violence, mind control, sadism, terrible parenting, character deaths, and teenagers who try to solve problems with guns.

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Lady Pod Squad on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter

Get a Job. Buy Your Own Shit. Stay Out of the Forest.

Bordertown

I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block

Charles de Lint

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Tanya Huff

The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire

Glamourbombing "is acts of enchanted art or performance intended to raise ambient magic levels and crack people's heads open a little to admit the idea that Faerie exists and might even be interacting with them. It isn't random acts of kindness (but do those anyway!), making people feel warm and fuzzy or cheering them up, or just "inspirational" platitudes with glitter added. While these things can have a subtle glamour to them, glamourbombing should above all be magical, and as intense as you can make it be - and magical and intense doesn't necessarily mean happy or comforting!"

The Incryptid Series

Tam Lin, the ballad, and the Pamela Dean book . We also love The Perilous Gard, Fire and Hemlock, and Winter Rose.

Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary by Pamela Dean

The first ever Catsbury Park Cat Convention happened over the weekend at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, which gathered cat owners and lovers under one roof to celebrate their favorite felines. http://redbankpulse.com/2018/04/09/our-coverage-of-the-catsbury-park-cat-convention

Asbury Park Boardwalk, home of the Catsbury Convention

Nightshade on the Passaic

Suza Scalora

Baby Bestiary - keep an eye out for preorders!

Return to Labyrinth

“You Have No Power Over Me”: Female Agency and Empowerment in ‘Labyrinth’

Spooky, October-Infused Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt and Tony DiTerlizzi

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Readalikes

War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Seven Wild Sisters by Charles De Lint

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Current Reads

Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg

Space Opera by Catherynne Valente

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