Today we're reading THAT story. The story that pops up when you give ChatGPT the prompt "Tell me a story". Can it do it? (Spoiler: No, it can't.)

This week we're talking about Daniel Perry's Modern Folklore, a book about the things that haunt us: our regrets, our vices, the mysterious figure of a woman with long dark hair, rental units.

This week, we talk about In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, along with other World War I poems in honour of Remembrance Day.

This week Amy is sharing A Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy, her new book recommendation with a signed copy and a lending copy. This story on trans witchcraft talks about earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention, and we talk about cool witch s***.

This week we're welcoming back Jamie Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to talk about Stephen King's 11/22/63! Much like the book, we talk about the Kennedy assassination, sure. But mostly other things.

This week we're talking about Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui! In which walking mushrooms, screaming roots, and carnivorous plants are on the menu (along with friendship!)

We're talking about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun! This was a standout book and a hearty recommendation, but boy is it rough. Content warnings for genocide, violence, sexual assault, and murder of a pregnant woman.

We're back in the Scott Pilgrim series with Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness! Plus, we're having something of an infinite sadness ourselves. But in a fun, chill way, you know?

We're back with a group storytelling game! And it gets wild. Check out Glen and Gertie Nuzzles from Nuzzle House and Ben and Nate from Words About Books!

This week in honour of our 100th episode, we're playing a game with some of our podcast friends! Check out Jamie @UnabashedJames, Colin @ColinMParker, and Az @Cals_Calzones on Twitter!

This week we're talking about William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, stage productions and adaptations, and Bard on the Beach in Vancouver! What does Willy do when he's scared? Willy Shakes.

This week we're finishing up The Tortured Poets Department section from Taylor Swift's Eras tour set. Songs covered are Down Bad, Fortnight, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.

Is Chantelle... a Swiftie? In honour of the 18th birthday of Taylor Swift's music career, we're talking about songs from The Tortured Poets Department section of the Eras tour set: But Daddy I Love Him, So High School, and Who's Afraid of Little Old Me.

This week we're talking about Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her lifelong gal pal Susan Gilbert. References are mostly from Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert by Maria Popova. Happy Pride! P.S. The world's oldest queer book store, Glad Day, needs help keeping its doors open as one of the city's core safe spaces! Can yo…

In honour of the release of Bridgerton Season 3, we're tackling the first book in Julia Quinn's series, The Duke and I! We chat about daddy issues, "The Talk", and swimming in the River Thames. Content warning for sexual assault.

We're finally talking about Beowulf, the epic poem written for 300 years that could have ended about four times! Incoming intertextuality (?) with Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, The Fast and the Furious, James Bond, and Disney.

This week we're talking about Volume 2 of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! Scott finally makes the right choice, outsmarts Chris Evans on a skateboard, and has a breakdown about his ex.

This week we're talking about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Volume 1 of the series)! We chat about the various adaptations of the series and Scott's single brain cell.

This week we have Glen and Gertie Nuzzles to talk about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! We chat about ghost stories, Christmas in the Victorian era, old timey entertainment, and Muppet oppression. Find Glen and Gertie's podcast, Gestating the Curious Mind, under the Nuzzle House umbrella @HouseNuzzle.…

This week we're talking about the 1941 sci fi short story By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein! Buckle up in the time gate to chat about paradoxes, capitalist propaganda, and Doctor Who.

This week we're playing a new game courtesy Amy and ChatGPT! Chantelle is guessing books based on riddles. Will she live up to her English degree or will those book spines crack under the pressure?

This week we're rounding out Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy with Arrow of God! This episode memorializes Professor Pius Adesanmi, who made Amy love the book. https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/carleton-mourns-loss-of-professor-pius-adesanmi/https://youtu.be/fsxGJj6YsB8?si=ctSOFkLpW6N1_ZKP

This week we're talking about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, toxic masculinity, the insidiousness of colonialism, and yams.

This week we're taking a trip down memory lane to the city where it all began! Our chat on Consolation by Michael Redhill delves into memory, stories, history, and a whole lotta red tape. Content warning: suicide.

This week we're talking about Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia featuring your boy Sherlock Holmes! We chat feminism with Irene Adler (who is not like other girls) and how heart eyes can make you an unreliable narrator.

This week we talk about Marvel comic What If... Magik Became the Sorcerer Supreme? Illyana Rasputin kicks butt, becomes an apprentice to Dr. Strange, and takes a nice little beach vacation.

We're back with original poems from reddit's r/OCPoetry and our beloved community! Thank you to Beesarecool, Marvellous_Loki, James Russell, Mayura/cenaplec, Peyton, James Teller of the If You Want the Gravy blog, Gertie from Nuzzle House, and Jamie from Timeline Scavengers for letting us share your poems!…

This week, we take a serious moment to talk about the genocide in Gaza. For more information, follow these creators: @ahmedhijazee (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok) @mahmoudzuaiter (TikTok) or @mahmoudabuzaiter (Instagram) @motaz_azaiza (Instagram) @alijadallah66 (Twitter, Instagram) @byplestia (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok) @aborjelaa (Instagram, TikTok)…

This week we welcome Az (@Cals_Calzones) to talk about Harvey by Mary Chase, a play that explores the love between a man and his invisible 6 foot talking rabbit. We chat mental health, imaginary friends, and ghosts!

This week, Ben and Nate from Words About Books join us to talk about Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. We also discuss werewolves, anxiety, and Shakira. Follow wordsaboutbookspodcast on Instagram and Threads!

This week we're talking about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House with special guest Ethan! We talk spooky ghosts, femme friendships, and "roommates".

This week we talk about Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, a nice normal essay. Also, unrelated, Hozier's Eat Your Young.

Amy is getting married! We're celebrating by reading love poems including Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mountain Song by Tophouse, and a surprise sonnet.

In this very last episode of Shakespeare's histories, Amy brings us Henry VIII, which has less murder than you would expect and might be a eulogy!

Today we're wrapping up (the main part of) Shakespeare's Henriad with our collective favourite history play, Richard III! We talk villain motivations, royal propaganda, and woman power in Medieval England.

We are finally finished with Shakespeare's Henry VI! Margaret goes nuclear, everyone dies, and our boy Richard III makes an appearance.

We're back with the second installment of the Henry VI trilogy, AKA Seventeen-Year-Old Gets Messy! Featuring prophecies, witches, murder, and no it's not Macbeth.

We are back with a healthy dose of Shakespearean history! This week we venture back into France, where things are going awry and the women (gasp) are doing WAR THINGS (GASP)! Featuring a special appearance by Joan of Arc.

This week we take a break from Shakespeare's sparkling wit and charm to enjoy Amy's as she gives us a history background on the War of the Roses.

We are about halfway through Shakespeare's Henriad with Henry V! We mosey on over to France for a fourteen year war that could have been avoided with foresight and a Zoom call.

We're back with the ending of Henry IV's story! Is this play good? Or could it have been an email? (Nice.)

We're still talking about rebellions, royals, and wars in Shakespeare's Henriad! This week, we talk about Henry IV Part 1, where everyone is named Henry and we meet the most aggro character of the Shakespeare canon.

Years in the making, we're finally covering Shakespeare's Henriad in a new series! We begin with Richard II, who was indeed a Dick 2 everyone.

In this episode recorded on April Fools Day (ish), we return to our dear old friend, Reddit OC Poetry... with a twist.

This week we're talking about Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray! In which everyone is in love with the same person and nobody wins. Content warning for suicide.

This week we talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with a bad guy narrator.

In this week's episode, we talk about Lord Alfred Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, plus wall repair and artificial intelligence.

This week we recommend and have a short preview of #IndianLovePoems by Tenille Campbell (edited by Garry Thomas Morse, Signature Editions, 2017)! You can support the author at https://www.tenillecampbell.com/ or follow her at @sweetmoonphoto on Instagram.

In our longest episode ever, we're joined by the illustrious James Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to discuss Stephen Chbosky's coming-of-age classic, Perks of Being a Wallflower. Enjoy this book club/therapy session, and please mind the myriad of content warnings.

This week we talk about Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, then go off the rails about our school year experiences. Wild rides abound. Come along.