This week, we’ve decided to be arbitrarily competitive! Tune in to listen to us discuss the literary death match we’ve decided to embark on in the month of May, plus how our reading has gone so far in 2025. Will our podcast survive this competition? Only time will tell!   Media Mentioned Cracked Spines (podcast) Woodworking by Emily St. James The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko Metal From Heaven by august clarke Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz Headliners by Lucy Parker A Bloomy Head by J. Winifred Butterworth Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman AMC’s Interview With the Vampire Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley Projections by S.E. Porter The Indian Card by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum True Detective The Bluestockings by Susanna Gibson Shakespeare’s Sisters by Ramie Targoff The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck The History of Sound dir. Oliver Hermanus (upcoming film) Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang The Hummingbird Killer by Finn Longman Captain America: The Winter Soldier dir. Anthony Russo and Joe Russo Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelopee Sinners dir. Ryan Coogler A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft Evocation by S.T. Gibson A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Mexican by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cosmo Sheldrake (musician)