This episode we’re talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are Cosmopolitan for scientists!
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Announcements
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Things We Read (or tried to…)
- Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, & Christopher Merrill
- Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz
- Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
- Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto
- “Machine Love” by Joy Kennedy-O’Neill
- “Ice” by Lotte van der Krol
- Dans l’antre d’Aoï garden by Hye-Young Pyun
- Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry
Other Media We Mentioned
- “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn” (Wikipedia)
- “El Dinosaurio” by Augusto Monterroso
- “El Emigrante” by Luis Felipe Lomelí
- Every Book Its Reader by @marccold
- It’s lunchtime, which means it’s time for a very sad story in which love is found, love is lost, he does her wrong, and she gets her revenge by @marccold
- Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs edited and translated by John Colarusso
- New Yorker Flash Fiction
- Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel
- Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol
- Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (Wikipedia)
- “Human Intelligence” by Kurt Anderson
- Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Wikipedia)
Links, Articles, and Things
- Episode 108 – Visual Novels
- Episode 074 – Short Story Collections
- Episode 027 – Non-Fiction Audiobooks
- Book Club for Masochists: Land Acknowledgements
- Drabble (Wikipedia)
- Cell phone novel (Wikipedia)
- Twitterature (Wikipedia)
- The Short Story Dispenser
- Storm Crow
- Beermat microfiction contest (archive.org)
- Episode 069 – Bizarro Fiction
- Lydia Davis (Wikipedia)
- Poetry in Transit (Vancouver)
- Deny Everything – Circle Jerks (Spotify)
15 Flash Fiction Books & 15 Flash Fiction Stories by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Collections
- The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar
- How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn
- People of Colo(u)r Destroy Flash Fiction! edited by Berit Ellingsen
- States of Grace by Stephen Graham Jones
- Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
- People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
- Complete Works & Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso
- Forward by Shabnam Piryaei
- The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China edited & translated by Shouhua Qi
- Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America edited by by Robert Shapard & James Thomas
- Microfictions by Ana María Shua
- Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua
- Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Córdoba Sosa
- The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela
- Work-In-Progress by Ran Walker
Stories
- “Riddle” by Ogbewe Amadin
- “lil miss jackson” by Nefertiti Asanti
- “Smoothies” by Venita Blackburn
- “Gloria” by K-Ming Chang
- “After ‘While” by Cherie Dimaline
- “Before the Haze Devours You” by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
- “As the North Wind Howled” by Yu Hua
- “A Sailor” by Randa Jarrar
- “Moonboys” by Stephen Graham Jones
- “Roe Soup Dance” by Tammy Heejae Lee
- “Time, Like Water” by Amal El-Mohtar
- “As Above” by Amal El-Mohtar
- “Niqqak” by Sedna Qaġaq
- “More than Nothing” by Nisi Shawl
- “God Product” by Alyssa Wong
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Join us again on Tuesday, September 21st when we’ll be discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Then on Tuesday, October 5th we’ll be getting spooky in preparation for Halloween as we discuss the genre of Erotica!