On today's episode, we're talking about bards and storytellers! What is art even FOR? The tentpoles this week are Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey, “With a Conquering Air” by inexplicifics, and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo.
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Chronicles of Ghadid series by K. A. Doore
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Viable Paradise roommates
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Murder wife from Luther
A Taste of Golden Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Ruoxi Chen at Tor.com
BtS Untamed episode
BtS Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells the Story episode
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Asterix comics by René Goscinny
“Only Love Proudly and Gladly and Well” by inexplicifics
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
Dragon Harper books
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
BtS Sympathy for the Devil episode
Bread and Roses protest song
Bread and Circuses phrase
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey
Symphony For the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
Captain America
Tchaikovsky (composer)
Kalevala Finnish epic poetry compilation
4 Chord Song by Axis of Awesome
New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
Macey’s bardic piano performance at the Nebula Awards
Cats musical
Les Mis musical
For Next Time
Nothing! (Next time is the mid-Nano episode)
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our brilliant team of scribes!