The Outrider Podcast: There’s genre and then there’s (marketing) Genre

Welcome to episode 2 of The Outrider Podcast with Jenn Zuko and Jason Quinn Malott

 

Today, we talk about the core foundation of story and how genre, at least as we understand it in the age of book marketing and mega-publishers, is irrelevant to the quality of the story and is actually a means to ghettoize and segregate readers so that they can be more easily marketed to.   

 

Some of our intake: 

 

Our Idiot Brother and my essay on Medium

 

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garci Marquez

 

Glory Guitars: Memoir of a 90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl by Gogo Germaine 

 

The Hellhound Heart, by Clive Barker

 

Philip Pullman’s Carnegie Medal speech - I cannot find a Pullman-approved version of this. Just an unlinked, unsourced version on blog. Search for it on your own. I don’t like linking to unverified sources. 

 

Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record by Andy Saunders