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GENRE STOP!

An Arts and Literature podcast
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This is the “show notes” section for the podcast Genre Stop! The goal of the show note is to provide a concise textual description of the audio content of the attached podcast, as podcasts are an aural medium and many of the devices on which hu
Hello. This is the “show notes” section for the podcast Genre Stop! The goal of the show note is to provide a concise textual description of the audio content of the attached podcast, as podcasts are an aural medium and many of the devices on w
I never could sleep growing up. A lot can go through a kid’s mind laying there, waiting for papa to drag his bum foot across my dirty bedroom floor. Mama’d wasn’t much of a cleaner. Two years a coat-check girl on Music Row and you couldn’t conv
Ah, who doesn’t love camping? The smell of the grass. Relaxing with friends. Eating sunflower seeds and cotton candy. Watching your favorite player hit a home run. Driving home in your car after the end of the baseball game. Oh, wait. That’s ba
Ted was going to end it all. He took $400 out of an ATM and started walking toward the gorge. He passed a video store on the way. He realized that he hadn’t seen Tank Girl in a couple decades. They had a copy. On the way home he bought an old V
This is a true story. In the ‘20’s I ran rum for some unsavory characters. I rode a bit too high on what Abigail Adams dubbed the ‘petrol pony.’ Fast cars. Fast girls. Fast times. Turns out, I’d borrowed money from the wrong cat. Al Capone! Uh-
Nothing like a good human v. nature novel to get the blood flowin.’ And, oh-wee boy, have we got a good one for you in Andy Weir’s debut novel! He starts from a simple premise: how long could you survive, stranded in a marsh? If you’re like me,
We needed something special this week. Not just your run-of-the-mill epic, with the same bland political intrigue, the same conniving highborn jetsetters, and the same Clausewitzian martial maneuvering. Something special. What we needed was a r
An energetic youth finds himself in a new home. His old family, it seems, does not want him. No matter—there are new and exciting animals to play with here! Uh-oh, why does my dad keep leaving me? Looks like I’ll have to gather up my furry crew
What has numerous squid-like appendages, a blind devotion to satiating its evolutionary needs, and negligible levels of sentience? If you said Stephen Markley, Genre Stop!’s first-ever guest host, you’re right! We also would have accepted ‘that
What do scheming wizards, all-powerful rings, and a world populated by elves, hobbits, and trolls all have in common? All of these words can describe The Lord of the Rings. We read a book about vampires called Agyar, though. Tune in to this wee
Ugh, another book about goblin kings? Bor-ring. At this point, you’d think the market’s a bit over-saturated. If I have to read one more word about goblin duchies… What’s that? The goblin EMPEROR? We’re in! In Genre Stop!’s fifth episode, Bri a
Gunnar? Kentavious? Sheryl? Fww-wooooo? All of these candidates and more vie for the title of “Name of the Wind” in Patrick Rothfuss’ 2007 epic fantasy. Which will it be? In this episode of Genre Stop!, Bri and Scott power through 700 pages of
You know, if you think about it, it’s like, are gods controlling us man, or are we controlling the gods?Whoa.In Genre Stop’s third episode, Bri and Scott finally address their podcast’s growing gender disparity and review a book by a dude. Th
Someone call Judith Butler. We’ve got gender trouble. Bri and Scott keep their seats on that Ann-train in Genre Stop’s second episode, as they discuss Ann Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice.” Along the way, they ponder the correct pronunciation of ali
In this inaugural episode, Bri and Scott introduce the podcast, (try to) define what ‘genre fiction’ means to them, and consider their histories with the label. They conclude with a discussion of the decades-old dragon-riding space romp that al
Welcome to Genre Stop! Each episode, Bri and Scott dissect a single piece of speculative fiction.The catch?While Bri is a long-time fan of the fantastic, Scott has always steered clear of the same. Until now.Tune in every other Monday for n
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