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A podcast about reading, publishing, and all things books!

Welcome to Strange Land Book Club! Listen to our book discussions here:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang

Amphibian by Christina Neuwirth

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

Listen to our interviews with writers and researchers of books and publishing:

Serialization and Wattpad (feat. Swara Shukla)

Community of Memories with Literary Journal TXT

Codex Machina at Book Fairs:

On this episode, Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the 2025 Thessaloniki Book Fair. Highlights include: a panel discussing the challenges of translating gender and queerness into smaller languages AND a visit to the Estonian booth, where they are celebrating 500 years since the first book was printed in the Estonian language.
We include a short interview with Priit-Hendrik Kaldma, a scholar and translator who works on Estonian-Greek-Estonian translations. On Making Book History, we discuss the Unbound fiasco and the difficulty of being an author in today’s world.

In this episode in our rubric Making Book History we talk about Margaret Atwood and mainsplainers of Twitter.
We share our impressions of the book fair (we tried to keep it short, I swear!) and compile some highlights of our visit.
Join Laura, Bethany and Natalia on this bookish journey!
Intro music by Leonardo Granados