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.

This is the sixth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is Ed "from Bluesky" Roppel, one of the four cohosts of "Normal Men", the only podcast on Bluesky. He blogs at ed3d.net.

Texts and writers discussed include but are not limited to the Foundation series, Robert Heinlein, John W. Campbell, Ben Bova, Spider Robinson (especially his story "The Guy with the Eyes"), The Sixth Column, L. Ron Hubbard, Orson Scott Card, Neuromancer, Michael Stackpole, The World According to Garp, Seeing Like a State, Moral Mazes, The Uncaccountability Machine, and László Krasznahorkai

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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.