Library Pizza

Library Pizza is a hot and ready podcast about reading with generous toppings, voluptuous stink lines, and just enough grease. Join Mike and a rotating cast of cohosts for weekly conversations about the books we've most recently touched.

Library Pizza is a arts podcast hosted by Mike Meginnis, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mike Meginnis hosts Library Pizza, a arts show with 19 episodes published.

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  Episode #19

  That's a Whole Lotta Man with Tobias Carroll

  Apr 17, 20261h 45mS1

  <p > This is the nineteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.</p> <p > This week's guest is Tobias Carroll, a novelist, critic, newsletter author, podcaster, blogger, and columnist at Words Without Borders, where he writes "The Watch List," a monthly roundup of books in translation. He is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and may read more than just about anyone else I know. You can learn more about his work at tobiascarroll.com.</p> <p > Texts and writers discussed include but are not limited to: The D...

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  Episode #18

  The Pleasures of Cultivation with Adam Gurri

  Mar 20, 20261h 16mS1

  <p>This is the eighteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Liberal Currents founder and editor Adam Gurri. </p> <p>Follow me on Bluesky here, and Adam here.</p> <p>Texts discussed in this episode include but are not limited to:</p> Mother of Learning by nobody103 Return of the Mad Demon by JP, Ihy, and based on a work by Yu Jin sung Elder Cultivator by Halosty How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard The work of John Rawls generally On Libe...

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  Episode #17

  Table for Two: Our Man in the Field Dons the Cowboy Hat of Freedom

  Mar 13, 20261h 15mS1

  <p>This is the sixteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my partner Tracy Rae Bowling, our AWP conference correspondent.</p> <p>The main books we discuss are C. Thi Nguyen's The Score and Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem.</p> <p>Follow me on Bluesky here.</p> <p>You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv</p> <p>My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.</p>

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  Episode #16

  The Story that I Want to Tell with Samantha Hancox-Li

  Mar 5, 20261h 19mS1

  <p>This is the sixteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Samantha Hancox-Li, an associate editor at Liberal Currents and the author of a book titled Feminism Is Transhumanism Is Modernity. You can support her on patreon here.</p> <p>Follow me on Bluesky here, and Samantha here.</p> <p>I'll add a list of readings to these show notes later; I reinvented my entire podcast workflow while editing this episode and some stuff hasn't quite come together yet.</p> <p>You can and should join Disc...

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  Episode #15

  Personal Pan Pizza: The Death of the Book World, plus Orhan Pamuk

  Feb 12, 202631 minS1

  <p>This is the fifteenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.</p> <p>This episode quotes at some length from Becca Rothfeld's February 10 New Yorker article "The Death of Book World". It also features a reading of an excerpt from The New Life. </p> <p>Follow me on Bluesky here.</p> <p>You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAsDrEeWFv</p> <p>My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.</p>

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