Literary Devices: Recent Episodes
Jessica McGale-Cooper
A book club in your earbuds, Literary Devices is a podcast that brings you in-depth discussions on all kinds of books, from contemporary literature to young adult novels to non-fiction tomes. Hosted by Jessica McGale-Cooper and Marysia Wojcik.
Let's talk about minimalism, travel, and grand experiments today with Clara Bensen's memoir, No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering.
Trigger warning: Brief mentions of anxiety and depression.
Edited by Ryan McGale.
Artwork by Bryan Cooper.
Next book: Iscariot by Tosca Lee.
Let's talk mental health and the nature of the self with John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
Trigger warning for talk of intense anxiety.
Edited and produced by Ryan McGale.
Music by Ryan McGale.
Art by Bryan Cooper.
The Name Therapist by Duana Taha
True You - Invisibilia (This is the episode that is named, and is a good episode, but isn't the one Jessica was thinking of)
The Personality Myth - Invisibilia (This is the episode Jessica was actually referencing!)
Witches and ghosts and villainous, misogynistic preachers, oh my!
Join Jessica and Marysia as they explore themes of feminism and religion in Ami McKay's spiritualist, occultist novel, The Witches of New York.
Theme song, editing, and production by Ryan McGale.
Artwork by Bryan Cooper.
Goddesses, witches, more myths than you can count: dive back into Greek mythology with this month's discussion of Circe by Madeline Miller.
Trigger warning: discussions of sexual violence (because Greek mythology is a patriarchal hellscape).
Hosted by Jessica McGale-Cooper and Marysia Wojcik.
Editing, production, and music by Ryan McGale.
Art by Bryan Cooper.
Next month's book is The Witches of New York by Ami McKay.
Jump into the world of Greek mythology and The Iliad in our discussion of Madeline Miller's phenomenal novel, The Song of Achilles.
Trigger warning: discussions of violence, depictions of war, and sexual assault.
Production, editing, and music by Ryan McGale.
Art by Bryan Cooper.
Introducing my new co-host, Marysia Wójcik! Join us for a discussion on parenting styles, raising children in a foreign country, and fatphobia surrounding pregnant people and mothers in particular in Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman.
NOTE: We talk a lot about fatphobia and gender norms, etc, but realized afterwards that we were using a lot of ableist language while doing so. We would like to point out that this is something that we are working on in ourselves and will do better to avoid it in the future!
Next book to be discussed is The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
Music, production, and editing by Ryan McGale.
Art by Bryan Cooper.
Books mentioned:
Beartown by Frederik Backman
The Girl in the Tower (and The Bear and the Nightingale) by Katherine Arden
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
The Power by Naomi Alderman
And I Darken, Now I Rise, and Bright We Burn by Kiersten White
This Savage Song and Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Next book to be discussed: Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
Editing, production, and music by Ryan McGale
Art by Bryan Cooper
An in-depth discussion of the novel All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.
Trigger Warning: suicide
Genre: Young Adult (YA) fiction
Music by Ryan McGale.
Production by Ryan McGale.
Artwork by Bryan Cooper.
Be sure to send your feedback and thoughts on the book to literarydevicespodcast@gmail.com.
Next book: Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
A discussion of the novel A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman.
Trigger warning: Some discussions of suicide.
Thanks to Ryan McGale for the theme song and editing help.
Logo designed by Bryan Cooper.
Next episode's book is All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.