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When it comes to the pop-culture-loving masses, everyone is a fan of Game of Thrones. Well, almost everyone. Amongst the franchise’s fans, there are a number of folks upset that the TV show has narratively eclipsed the book series it is based on. Those people have every right to be mad. They started this journey with George R.R. Martin’s books, and now it looks like the HBO show may get to the tale’s probably-not-happy ending before the final novel is released. It’s all just really unfortunate.
But on the latest episode of the Monitor podcast, we have a solution: reading other books! Yes, on this week’s WIRED Culture ‘cast we’re talking about Game of Thrones, of course, but we’re also discussing the recently launched WIRED Book Club (if you’re not following along, you totally should be), and FSG Originals, the new serialized fiction offering from publisher Farrar Straus and Giroux that aims to get you to binge-read its books the way you currently watch Netflix shows.
That’s not all. We’re also discussing the new Lonely Island movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Showtime’s own literary offering Penny Dreadful, and our personal gripes with the book world’s biggest names. We’ve got editors and writers (and overall bookworms) Jason Kehe, Charley Locke, and Angela Watercutter on the mic, and we’re here to talk about reading.
A few helpful links for things we talk about in the podcast:
-Laura Hudson’s Game of Thrones recap -Charley Locke’s piece on FSG Originals –The announcement of the WIRED Book Club novel for June, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice -Social media tips from the Lonely Island guys:
