Two-Person Book Club
TWO-PERSON BOOK CLUB is a new podcast from Amanda Bermudez and Rony Josaphat, offering an accessible, insightful, and eclectic approach to contemporary bibliophilia.
Episodes
Season finale! Amanda B. (@AmandaJBermudez) and Rony J. (@ronyphat) try and distract you from the fact that this is only the fourth female-written book they've done out of 12, with a book by TWO ladies: FUCKED: BEING SEXUALLY EXPLORATIVE AND SELF-CONFIDENT IN A WORLD THAT'S SCREWED by Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson. It's like-- feminism, but make it fashun. Along that runway, discover...
Alt clit-lit...
(#prisonbreakforcover)
While Amanda B. is off re-hiding the Holy Grail because we've proven we can't have nice things, Rony J. (@ronyphat) and producer Josh N. (@theincomparablejosh) reveal the greatest unknown revolution in (Latin, but also normal) American history with WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS. What's in the secret warehouse behind the barbershop toilet? Well, guns, obviously. And...
OMG THE ...
Amanda B. and Rony J. do the serious-book-club equivalent of hitting on a girl that's obviously...uh... not interested in you, by seeking to break down Babysitter's Club book #38, KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER. Y.A.? YNOT!
Ok so here's why not:
1.) Pretty dresses; 2.) fellatio; 3.) ????
Treatise on being "interesting looking".
Woman as object --> woman as subject.
(Kristy&a...
Are mice nocturnal?
Where's dad?
No dad?
Tiny reindeer?
Fur is murder!
Smoking??? INDOORS!
Santa's an elf?
Explains the chimneys.
YOU'RE a jerk.
Happy Christmas! G'night.
Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez) sits down with 8 BALL CHICKS author Gini Sikes (@8ballchicks) to discuss Gini getting in, her subjects getting out, and women getting on equal footing in America. Along the way, the Midwesterners cover...
Lucille Ball goes to the ghetto!
MTV, PBS, at the SAME DAMN TIME
"Where are you guys gonna go now?" "Nowhere."
The girls are always worried about you.
*gasp...
Rony J. (@idontreadthis // @ronyphat) and Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez // @a.j.bermudez) do '90s nostalgia all wrong by focusing on the women-on-society's-fringes part of the decade with Gini Sikes's portrait of girls in urban gangs, 8-BALL CHICKS. What does this view of the years-we-all-love-to-forget-the-bad-parts-of have to show us?
"I'll be there for you" has a few socio-economic asterisks!...
Amanda B. interviews Keren Taylor (@kerentaylor), Executive Director of the young women's creative writing and mentoring organization WriteGirl (writegirl.org) and publisher of their multiple-dozen-award-winning anthologies. They discuss...
The collective's new book, This Moment: Bold Voices from WriteGirl.
Self-expression as an unshakable anchor for young women in a world that imposes upon them.
The role...
Amanda B. and Rony J. face a choice between a.) silently choking down their guilt at not knowing or b.) reveling in the glory of learning the rich history in 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In this, the Mansa Musa of podcast episodes, our heroes spend a couple-odd hours (MORE than enough time to cover 800 years, tbh) rooting through the ignor-gotten history of y'know, a fifth of the inhabitants of ...
Amanda B. and Rony J. take on (and spend way too long taking) THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson. Lean back, pop a (Pro)Zac, and descend into hell with us. Spoiler alert! We're boring and will likely not murder you. Of course, that's exactly what we'd WANT you to think...
Rony goes back to misremembering people's names!
Amanda shares her disappointment at not having become your divine ruler by age 25...
Agent Amanda B. and Rony "Double-O" J. (aka Mr. License-to-Find-the-Real-Killer) jump the shark in rocket-powered skis by doing fiction-- specifically, the novel that introduced 007 to the world, CASINO ROYALE, by Ian Fleming. Did Sir Ian debut with the cool gadgets, exotic locales, and clever women that we expect nowadays from James Bond? Dr. HELL No.
Get the living daylights knocked out of you when:
Rony wo...
Gas station impresario Amanda B. and Walking Zipper-Face Emoji Rony J. dive into the "work"-for-money system and how and why it's driving us mad via BULLSHIT JOBS, by David Graeber. They had so much fun, the unspoken Western economic contract demands that they not be paid at all! NONE CAN ESCAPE THE BLOOD SACRIFICE, ALL MUST SUFFERRRRRRRRR *cue "Raining Blood" by Slayer*
Marvel at how giving a home...
Inspired by THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS, Amanda B. and Rony J. put on their tri-corns and dive head-first into a jug full. Ask not what your podcast can do for you, but how much shrimp you can throw on the barbie!
I'm sorry.
(Intro by David E. Lessard II)
Amanda B. and Rony J. follow Harvard professor and professional NEW YORKER-er Jill Lepore through birth, adolescence, work, and death, via a Puritan board game called THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS. Amanda antagonizes a (maybe) dead man, while Rony comes face to face with a giant conundrum.
"Impure thought!" the child ejaculated. "Go back three spaces!"
We joke because otherwise we'd remember th...
Amanda B. and Rony J. pick through a tender family drama in the looming shadow of the hallmark horror of the 20th century. Come for the cute animal allegory, stay for the holy-crap-they-force-marched-these-people-miles-in-the-woods-at-night-and-left-them-packed-like-sardines-standing-up-in-train-cars-only-opening-the-doors-to-collect-the-dead-and-that's-AFTER-the-war-was-basically-over. Remember-- these are people, that did th...
Amanda and Rony dive into Walker Percy's super-casual hybrid parody-self-help-theoretical-space-narrative centering on a dense mid-century theory of language and the self. What they find there is unspeakable!
Pro-tip: don't look at the sun.
Also, Charles Bronson, not Richard. He knows.
**This book, and this episode, makes short mention of suicide. If you're having any suicidal ideation (vi...
Amanda and Rony vet the philosopher's ideas on what makes a story a story. Can one still Oedipus Rex in a Black Mirror world?
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