Category: bookstabber podcast

The Butchery by Bastien Vivès. Translated by Jenna Allen. Fantagraphics, 2021. 9781683964476. 86pp. The story of a relationship from its wondrous beginning right through to its terrible end, told in realistic scenes and metaphors like soldiers about to parachute into […]
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Gene and Willow are transported on a magical trip to the worst place on Earth. Between shark attacks, abusive Taekwondo champions, poisoned peaches, and state propaganda, it’s a miracle they both managed to have a good time. Content warning: This […]
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At the end of time stand two opposing forces: The Willow Agency, who finds this book to be a bloated Writing 201 experiment, and the Gene Garden, for whom each book is like a newborn bird being hatched. Can either […]
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Willow fondly remembers someone else’s childhood and battles alien spiders. Gene laughs at poop jokes and parenting foibles. Together they ask the immortal question: is it okay to smell the underwear of an extra terrestrial? http://bookstabber.podbean.com/
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Gene is delighted, as usual. Willow drinks deep the sorrows of children’s literature. Four Loko and books about peanuts are banished from the kingdom. Listen to the episode at http://bookstabber.podbean.com/ or wherever you get podcasts
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Listen to Gene and Willow disagree about this magical novel set in 1940s New York, in which an uncanny assassin and others with strange powers try to create a safe space for love and family. (Trouble the Saints won a […]
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In Episode 13 Gene and Willow discuss Nicola Yoon’s YA romance The Sun Is Also A Star. Gene loved this story of love-at-first-sight story about a young man on his way to a college interview for a school he doesn’t […]
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This week Willow and I discuss a strange, Lovecraftian novel, A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill. Are monsters real? Are all tentacles evil? And how do we feel about flying werewolf sex? Find out in this exciting episode! Available […]
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Willow and Gene discuss Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson (The Family Fang, Perfect Little World). Gene loves Wilson’s books (this one, too), and Willow’s reaction to it surprises him.   All of the episodes should be available in […]
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This episode we’re doing something different! Willow and I discuss four graphic novels we both love: Robot Dreams by Sara Varon, King City by Brandon Graham, Legion of Super-Heroes: Teenage Revolution by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson, and Friends With […]
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