Literary Devices Jessica McGale-Cooper

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.