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5 Podcasts to Fuel your Escapism
Each issue of our newsletter is curated by a different person.
There's no time like the present to…escape the present! With The Odyssey and Spider-Man bringing fantasy back to our screens and minds, this playlist is a great companion to find other stories and subjects you'll love to dive deep into.
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Hot and Bothered
Persuasion, Chapter 1: The Ancient and Respectable Family
This is a podcast the encourages slow reading and treating books as sacred… and it’s fantastic.
In each episode this season, the hosts cover Persuasion by Jane Austen. It’s book analysis at its finest, but it also feels like a warm hug from your favorite aunt.
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House of R
The Rings of Power, Episode 8 Deep Dive
No one does nerdy deep dives like Mallory and Jo. They break their episodes into three sections — people who have only watched the show, people who have watched the show and want some book discussion, and people who are ok with full book spoilers.
In this episode, they get to interview the show runners and really dig into all their theories!
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Morbid
The Sleeping Sickness Epidemic
True crimes often are left unsolved, but it’s rare that an entire disease goes unexplained. This episode on encephalitis lethargica (“sleeping sickness”) is an edge-of-your-seat history lesson you can’t believe you haven’t heard of.
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Fantasy Fangirls
Rebecca Yarros Interview Recap
Rebecca Yarros is so great in interviews, and the Fantasy Fan Girls did a fantastic job with getting her to drop so many easter eggs!
For readers who really want to nerd out on Empyrean Book 4, this episode was an absolute goldmine of clues.
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Dragons in the Details
ACOTAR: Azriel Deep Dive - His Shadows, His Winnowing & His Hellacious Origins
Everyone has questions about Azriel, but we may have some answers! We connect clues across all 5 ACOTAR books, and the Maasverse, to get into what exactly is going on with everyone’s favorite shadowsinger. We leave no stone unturned in trying to get some answers!
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🟢 Green Tide Rising is an eight-episode bilingual series that spotlights Latin America’s Green Wave movement and how it’s shaping some of the most progressive abortion policies in the world.
🎹 The Hook & Bridge Podcast is for people who love arguing about the songs, bands, and moments that shaped their lives. Hosts Harley, Taylor, and Chris mix music news, ridiculous games, rankings, nostalgia, and candid conversations with artists into a show that feels more like hanging out with music-obsessed friends than listening to a traditional interview podcast.
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🌼 You Could Make This Beautiful is a new podcast series (within the Dear Sugars feed) from WBUR, hosted by poet Maggie Smith. It celebrates the ways in which poetry in all its forms can make life more beautiful... and possibly save humanity?!
🦊 Congrats to fiction podcast The Writer on the release of season one! Discover an audio drama that mixes truth and fiction, leaving listeners to question what’s real and what’s not.
👩💻In this week’s issue of Podcast the Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends… I’ve Got A Hunch. She writes:
Nate’s podcast I’ve Got a Hunch, is an exploration about who dropped the suitcase on him but more importantly, how to deal with getting older and also how to fix his back. (Get it? = hunch.)
It’s a time warp in many ways, both in the fact that it’s the revenge-but-really-not genre we know and love, but because it feels homemade and cared for.
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