Eyes Cool Podcast

We hear from two groups of students exploring topics in library and information studies. The first focuses on intersections of LBGTQ people, queer theory, and libraries --- especially cataloging. Another group thinks about how public lands and public libraries relate to each other as resources for the public good and human wellbeing. 

An interview with Peg Cook, interim library director at Elmhurst College, on academic libraries now, followed by a discussion of the misinformation in the online information ecosystem. 

Student discussions of the embeddedness of libraries and archives within imperial power, with emphasis on indigenous lands and knowledges. Followed by a reflection on literature for youth and Banned Books Week 2020.

We launch season 3 of the Eyes Cool Podcast and everything around here is new, new, new! New students, a new episode format for this season, and, today, an interview with new iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker. 

Some relevant links:

Worlds Without End: http://www.worldswithoutend.com/

Locus Mag: https://locusmag.com/

Links:

N.K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds 

Den of Geek - Top New Fantasy Books

https://www.denofgeek.com/books/top-new-fantasy-books-2020/  

World Fantasy Awards

http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/ 

Nebula Awards

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/  

Hugo Awards controversy

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17763260/n-k-jemisin-hugo-awards-broken-earth-sad-puppies 

The Problem of Innocence in the Dark Fantastic

http://thedarkfantastic.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-is-rue-little-black-girl-problem-of.html?m=1 

How the Book Biz is Coping with Coronavirus

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/82780-coping-with-the-coronavirus.html 

Our recommendations/favs:

From Mia:

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin Mystery Series

Kathleen Ernst: Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None and Hercule Poirot mysteries

Ashley Weaver: The Amory Ames Mysteries

Amy Stewart: Kopp Sisters Mysteries

Meg Cabot: Heather Wells Mysteries

Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (YA crossover)

From my grandma: M.C. Beaton, William Kent Krueger, Alexander McCall Smith

From my husband: Mr. Mercedes and The Outsider by Stephen King

From friends: Alex Kava’s books

TV/Movies: Midsomer Murders, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Poirot (Suchet), And Then There Were None (2015)

From Peg:

Library Co-worker: Alexander McCall Smith - Ladies #1 Detective Agency

Patron who farms by day, reads at night: Craig Johnson - Walt Longmire series

Patron who retired from Nat’l Weather Service: Anne Perry

Audio Citation

“Thinking about Murder.” Royalty Free Stock Audio, Special Effects and More, www.audioblocks.com/stock-audio/thinking-about-murder-sgawrsy6ipbk0wyaoly.html.

Bibliography and Notes 

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques 

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorized London by Brian McDonald 

Watching the Detectives: Crime Programming, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes About the Criminal Justice System by Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn (The Sociological Quarterly vol. 52 issue 1) 

Why Do Women Love True Crime? by Kate Tuttle (The New York Times, 15 July 2019) 

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe 

Why Are Women Obsessed with True Crime? Rachel Monroe Has Some Answers by J. Oliver Conroy (The Guardian, 20 August 2019) 

Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers? by Amanda M. Vicary and R. Chris Fraley (Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 1 issue 1) 

Why Do We Find True Crime Fascinating? ‘Savage Appetites’ Looks For An Answer by Ilana Masad (NPR, 20 August 2019) 

Language, Ideology, and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives by Christiana Gregoriou 

Book Review: Language, Ideology, and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives by Athina Karatzogianni (Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, vol. 22 issue 2) 

The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy by Ann Rule 

Escape by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi 

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara 

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule 

Serial (podcast by Sarah Koenig) 

My Favorite Murder (podcast by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark) 

And That’s Why We Drink (podcast by Christine Schiefer and Em Schulz) 

Let’s Go To Court (podcast by Brandi Egan and Kristin Caruso) 

What Should I Read Next? (program by The New York Public Library) 

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse 

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan 

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong 

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid 

Ask a Librarian Chat (service by University of Wisconsin-Madison library system) 

Corrections 

Charlotte described The Devil in the White City as being about the “1983 World’s Fair.” The Devil in the White City chronicles the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. 

We launch season two - which takes a series of deep dives into genres popular with adult readers - with an episode about Romance Novels!

Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/

https://www.claireryanauthor.com/blog/2019/12/27/the-implosion-of-the-rwa

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/readers-advisory-episode-96-a-princess-in-theory/

https://bellwetherfriends.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/episode-92-we-need-inclusive-romance/

https://bellwetherfriends.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/episode-41-we-love-historical-romance/

https://www.mindyklasky.com/index.php/for-writers/romance-tropes/

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/fanfiction-101/

Season Two of EYES COOL PODCAST is coming soon! This season we take a series of deep dives into genres that are popular with adult readers from romance to true crime and everything in between. We're embedded in a course called Reading Interests of Adults where we'll get a taste of what interests adult readers, how and why we read together, and how industry factors like reviews and recommendation systems affect the literary scene. 

Launching soon, episode one focuses on Romance Novels!

In the final episode of the season, we discuss Jenny Odell's How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.  How can we reclaim control over our most precious resource in the 21st-century information economy: attention? Odell theorizes withdrawal, refusal, and self determination an puts the digital attention economy within the larger context of human history and ecology. 

Then, at the end of the first season, our host reflects on the end of season one and teaching with podcasts! 

This week we discuss Amy Lonetree's 2012 book, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Lonetree, who is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, discusses how museums can shed centuries of colonial violence at the core of their collecting and display practices by centering Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing. She also discusses Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums, or TLAM, a specialized area of libraries and archives that UW-Madison iSchool staff and faculty have been involved in for over a decade.  

This podcast is produced in Madison, Wisconsin where University of Wisconsin–Madison rests in the ancestral land of the Ho-Chunk Nation, the People of the Big Voice, who have called this place Teejop (day-JOPE) for time immemorial. We as a university community continue to create and build upon our partnerships with the 12 First Nations of Wisconsin. We as a state university respect the inherent sovereignty and unique legal status, as affirmed and set forth in state and federal law, of the First Nations of Wisconsin.

This week we discuss Michelle Caswell's Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia. Then a discussion of the prod-Democracy protests in Hong Kong and how the tech industry has been involved. Closed out by a conversation about digital humanities and book history in the UW-Madison Special Collections library. 

On this week's pod we discuss Melissa Adler's Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham 2017, https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823276363/cruising-the-library/). From there, we learn about the Madison LGBTQ Archive and the Madison LGBTQ Oral History Project. Finally, a look at parent challenges of LGBTQ books in school libraries. 

Misogyny in tech industries and the information professions isn't an accident. It was created and has a long history. And it comes with great costs to individual people and society at large. This week the pod's main segment is on Mar Hick's award-winning 2018 book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.  

.A look at Sarah T. Roberts' new book Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.

Mark Zuckerberg went before Congress last week and tried to defend facebook's positions on privacy, truth in targeted advertising, and cryptocurrency. And this week we're reading Siva Vaidhyanathan's Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. 

When did you first feel represented by the media you read and viewed? A group of students sit down to discuss Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's new book, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. Episode also features an interview with iSchool professor Rebekah Willett whose work focuses on youth and media. Rounding out the episode is a look at the Wisconsin Book Festival.