It’s episode 203 and time for us to discuss the genre of Dark Academia! We discuss aesthetics as genres, cosplaying as academics, anti-intellectualism, the differences between Canadian and American university experiences, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Cloisters by Katy Hays The Cloisters (the museum) And He Shall Appear by Kate Van Der Borgh Other Media We Mentioned The Secret History by Donna Tartt Howl's Moving Castle (film) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu Includes “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc” Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Bunny by Mona Awad The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Neuromancer by William Gibson Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake Faust Links, Articles, and Things Dark academia (Wikipedia) Episode 115 - New Weird Kurt Vonnegut Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke University of King's College Sour Patch Kids Magic Circle Bottle episode Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking Skull and Bones Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers Cottagecore 15 Dark Academia by Authors of Colour: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by POC (People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé  The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf Bunny by Mona Awad The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson Babel by R.F. Kuang The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi  Land of No Regrets by Sadi Muktadir Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao  Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the genre of Cozy Fantasy! Then on Tuesday, December 17th it’s time for our “best books of the year” episode!