Library Pizza

Mike Meginnis

Library Pizza is a hot and ready podcast about reading with generous toppings, voluptuous stink lines, and just enough grease. Join Mike and a rotating cast of cohosts for weekly conversations about the books we've most recently touched.

  1. JAN 15

    Sad Glub Glub Sounds with Adam Elkus

    This is the thirteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Adam Elkus. The Other Side by Alfred Kubin Franz Kafka generally H. P. Lovecraft generally The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger The Ring novels by Koji Suzuki Neuromancer by William Gibson The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (and other Hammett works) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Sherlock Holmes generally Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii Kobo Abe generally Truth from a Lie by Margaret S. Key There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm The SCP Foundation "Sovereignty and the UFO" by Alexadner Wendt Philip K. Dick generally Undead Girl Murder Farce (anime) Paranoia Agent, directed by Satoshi Kon Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex The Twenty Days of Turin, again Writing by Venkatesh Rao The train game Mike mentions is called Rolling Line The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 "Successor, Usurper, Replacement" by Alice Sola Kim "Trends of Japanese Science Fiction in the 2000s" by Motoko Tanaka Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu Haruki Murakami generally Evangelion, directed by Hideaki Anno The Count of Monte Cristo anime Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Alan Moore's run with the character Supreme Follow me on Bluesky here, and Adam here. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

    1h 24m
  2. 12/11/2025

    The Ministry of Culture with Buzz Poole

    This is the tenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Buzz Poole, cofounder of Sandorf Passage. Texts discussed include but are not limited to: Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost by Donald Niedekker, translated by Jonathan Reeder Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth Cat at the End of the World by Robert Perišić, translated by Vesna Maric No Signal Area by Robert Perišić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać She Who Remains by Rene Karabas, translated by Izidora Angel The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać Horror and Huge Expenses by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar James by Percivel Everett Stranger by C. J. Cherryh The works of Magda Szabo in general, of course The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark Ice by Anna Kavan The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker The works of C. S. Lewis The Witches by Roald Dahl Buzz mentions writing an article for the Lit Hub that is partly about reading to his son; it's this: "The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings". Follow me on Bluesky here, and Buzz here. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.

    1h 45m

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Library Pizza is a hot and ready podcast about reading with generous toppings, voluptuous stink lines, and just enough grease. Join Mike and a rotating cast of cohosts for weekly conversations about the books we've most recently touched.