Episode 092 - Arts (Non-Fiction)

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This month we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Arts! We discuss “capital-A” art, creating, consuming, and destroying art, library hold-list hacks, Video Game Club for Masochists, woo woo, and scraping ideas off of the sides of artist Faraday cages.

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Kaya Fraser

Things We Read

• Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter
• Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Gorey's Worlds by Edward Gorey
• Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey by Karen Wilkin
• Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
• La Bande Dessinée by Benoît Mouchart

Other Media We Mention

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
• • Graphic Annotations of China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• • Girl with a Pearl Earring painting by Johannes Vermeer (Wikipedia)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
• Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)
• • Krobus: “He is a shadow person who lives in the sewers.”
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Halo (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• Book Club for Masochists
• • Episode 003 - Technology (non-fiction)
  • Episode 064 - Video Games
• Trailer for Take Me (a short film Matthew’s mom wrote)
• The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
• Three Books From The Fantod Press by Edward Gorey (are they zines? Maybe?)
• Redburn: His First Voyage by Herman Melville
• • This is the one with the cover by Edward Gorey featuring some sailors
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Edward Gorey
• Dracula (1924 Play) > 1977 Revival (Featuring art design by Edward Gorey)
• Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs: (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You in School) by Sara Benincasa
• Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality by Drew Hayden Taylor
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Creative Independent
• The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo
• The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey
• The Coasters - Searchin’
• • Wikipedia article on the song

Links, Articles, and Things

• Paradise, Nevada (Wikipedia)
• • “Paradise is an unincorporated town” (it’s for tax reasons, of course…)
• David Datuna (Wikipedia)
• • “Known for: Sculpture, installation; consuming the banana from Comedian”
• Love is in the Bin (Wikipedia)
• • Banksy artwork that was shredded after auction
• Twitter thread from Stephanie about books they read in their art book club
• Shia LaBeouf's extremely loud motivational speech, explained
• Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade (Instagram poetry)
• Matthew’s analysis of the Goodreads top graphic novels of the year
• CinemaSins (Wikipedia)

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