A Grain of Sanderson
From the fantasy epics of the Cosmere to the defunct mobile game companion books, Graham, Jack, and Taylor attempt to read every published work by Brandon Sanderson, in publication order. We hope to gain a better understanding of who he is as an author, how his writing changes over time, and his broader effect on the fantasy genre. Starting with Elantris and finishing half a decade from now, please join us as we travel out of the wardrobe, and onto the wagon train.
New episodes the second Tuesday of the month.
A Grain of Sanderson
Alcatraz vs The Scrivener's Bones - Episode 6
We're confronted with our first sleeper hit, Alcatraz vs The Scrivener's Bones!
Next month we'll be reading the short stories Defending Elysium (2008) and Firstborn (2008), Episode Airs: August 13th
Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, broken bones, bullying, child abuse, child death, child endangerment, classism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fighter jets, foster homes, gulags, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, maiming, mental illness, mind control, murder, prisons, religious extremism, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, suicide/suicidal ideation, time loops, torture, transphobia, undeath, US Military, wounds and infection
So in the episode I mentioned that I would put a primer to disability studies in the show notes. I'd recommend starting with Beginning with Disability by Lennard Davis, and then if you're interested in the politics of care I can recommend Sunaura Taylor's Beasts of Burden and if you like disability as a product of environment, try Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures. There's a million more places you can go from those three books, so enjoy and happy reading.
Castleman, M. D. (2011). Alcatraz and Iser: Applying Wolfgang Iser’s concepts of implied reader and implied author and reality to the metafictive Alcatraz Smedry series. Children's Literature in Education, 42, 19-32.
Sorry for the late upload y'all, lost a bunch of editing in the export last night so I redid some work.
This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.
Instagram
Bookshop
Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)
