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The Ink Sink

Celebrating all readers, leaders, and word-nerds — this is the publishing podcast for the rest of us! We welcome all readers — classics students, novel mavens, fanfic fans, comic geeks, audio jammers, ebook devourers, and social media poets. Literature is for everyone. Join Annie and Kali for episodes about books, news, and our latest lit obsessions.

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00:32:08

News: We Want S***** Batman!

The Ink Sink ·

2022/10/26

Batman will be coming out of copyright in the 2030s, we speculate on what a public domain dark knight would look like. Also, that segment turns into a plea to support AO3. We're not mad about it? Today's sources: A good look at some of the copyrighted works expiring soon and what culture could look like in the future: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-expiring-copyright-protections-mean-for-our-media-landscape/ Heartbreaking and hard to read, but necessary:

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00:46:08

19: Book to Screen: Stardust

The Ink Sink ·

2022/10/11

You asked, we listened! We're doing our very first book-to-screen episode on Stardust: books by Neil Gaiman, movie directed and written by Matthew Vaughn. We go through the illustrated novella, the full-length novel, the behind-the-scenes drama, and the movie reception. You can see both versions of Stardust on our Bookshop.org page here. We hope you enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-ink-sink/message Support this podcast:

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00:42:51

18: KIDS READ TOO MUCH?!

The Ink Sink ·

2022/10/05

The problem with you girly, is you read too much! Listen to the episode this week where we dive into the drama in the publishing world and figure out what's up with Barnes & Noble right now. Our sources this week: Our episode on the slow death of local news: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/17-Your-Neighborhood-Geeks-The-Sad-State-of-Your-Local-News-e1o765i Our "Dracula Daily" episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pUlJHstbxjQ Homestuck: https://www.homestuck.com/ Our "Kali Lives to Spite

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00:30:06

17: Your Neighborhood Geeks: The Sad State of Your...

The Ink Sink ·

2022/09/22

Your local news is dying a slow death. Who's to blame? What can we do? And what do we lose when we lose local news? Listen now. Our sources for this episode: Our episode on fact-checking: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/11-The-First-Fact-Checker-Quit-After-Just-a-Few-Months-e1kqg8s Why it matters: local news is instrumental in things like missing person cases: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/12/jashyah-moore-missing-person-found/ What is lost when we lose local journalists:

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00:47:19

16: Midnight Release of Publishing Drama

The Ink Sink ·

2022/09/16

Turns out publishing company CEOs have no idea what they're doing. Also, we have a hefty helping of news after the break. We want to hear from you! Reach out to us at InkSinkPodcast@gmail.com! Our sources this week: A History of the midnight release party: https://bookriot.com/history-of-the-midnight-release-party/ Please please please please: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2022/a-26-year-old-entrepreneur-takes-a-fresh-shot-at-selling-news-one-story-at-a-time/ Penguin random house and Simon

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00:01:35

Nothing, Just Kali and Annie Making Themselves Laugh...

The Ink Sink ·

2022/09/05

Happy Labor Day! As a treat, you get to hear these two goofs being goofs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-ink-sink/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-ink-sink/support

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00:27:36

15: Your Favorite Author Is a Problem. Now What?

The Ink Sink ·

2022/08/29

We've all opened our phones to the news that our favorite author/artist/hero is actually a massive problem of a person. What's a nerd to do? Kali and Annie dive into separating the art from the artist. Some of our sources may be paywalled, heads up! Journal of Popular Music Studies: https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/32/4/75/114312/Must-Be-Love-On-The-Brain-Feminist-responses-to Studies in American Humor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerhumor.5.2.0288 --- Send in a voice

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00:44:24

14: Return of the Spine Collector

The Ink Sink ·

2022/08/19

We're covering crimes that run the gamut this week. Should publishers own all digital books? Should libraries need to close to deal with the haters? Should the Spine Collector reach out to us personally to satisfy our curiosity? Listen to the deep dive! EVERY TIME, THIS STORY JUST GETS MORE TANTILIZING. What is the plea agreement? What is the compensation? What was his fucking motive?????

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00:36:03

13: Dracula Daily Deep Dive

The Ink Sink ·

2022/08/02

Why are you seeing Dracula in your feed all of a sudden? Enter Matt Kirkland and Dracula Daily -- a free newsletter that sends you dispatches from the classic novel. We tackle how all this started, how wonderful the memes are, and what we want to see next. Our sources: Link to the substack: https://draculadaily.substack.com/about Slate interview: https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/dracula-daily-bram-stoker-book-newsletter-jonathan-harker.html Dumb Cuneiform: https://dumbcuneiform.com/#faq Know Your

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00:40:26

12: The News Has Rancid Vibes

The Ink Sink ·

2022/07/12

This week's news roundup is dominated by the big Digital News Report for 2022. We dive in and talk about social media, representation, and old people getting worried about the "youths" these days. Our sources this week: Booksellers leader rallies for abortion rights: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4263&share=true#m56778 Comprehensive roundup on the publishers' side from PW:

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00:29:00

11: The First Fact-Checker Quit After Just a Few Months

The Ink Sink ·

2022/07/05

In which we learn about our new favorite person: Nancy Ford, Time's first fact-checker from 1923, who walked away after "several grueling months." Spoilers: fact-checking is still grueling. Annie knows because she was there in the trenches at a newspaper and then at a digital news company. This week, Kali and Annie dig into the history of fact-checking, the problem with opinion pieces, and what we learn from AO3's tag wranglers. Some sources from Kali's historical research: The Rise and Fall of

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00:21:57

10: We Love Each Other, And Books

The Ink Sink ·

2022/06/28

Kali and I are out this week, so we're bringing you an episode from the archives! This episode goes into how women are represented in books, news, and fire-retardant writing. Plus, we update you on the state of Meta and Alphabet's battle with the news companies that want them to pay for news. Today's sources: AI finds that male-coded characters are four times more common in literature than female-coded characters:

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00:26:23

9: Ash Ketchum Is the True Hero of Our Times

The Ink Sink ·

2022/06/20

We're coming to you weekly! In this episode, we cover our main topic for this week: our favorite fantasy tropes! Annie covers the "three witches" trope and Kali dives into the "chosen one." She decides to tell us who the most choesn-est chosen one of all time is. And she spoils every major movie and story on the way. Link up with us on our brand new YouTube channel! Plus, check out what we're reading on our Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/theinksink --- Send in a voice message:

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00:42:12

8: Fiction is Growth

The Ink Sink ·

2022/06/14

Alright, we hear you. We're bringing you weekly episodes from here on! We'll be in your ears, alternating between news and main topics every week. Starting this week! Today you get to hear Kali defend Buzzfeed, libraries, the south, and Gone Girl. Listen now! Sources: Ten years since the iconic Cool Girl monologue: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a40079306/gone-girl-legacy/ VA lawsuit says that books with mature themes should require a parent's consent before purchase:

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00:43:44

7: Handpicked by Kali and Annie

The Ink Sink ·

2022/05/18

We've been having technical difficulties, fam. That's bad news for us, but good news for you! It means that you get to hear some of our favorite segments from the cutting room floor! This episode we cover new words in the dictionary, free speech, and Brandon Sanderson's kickstarter smash. Also we're on Bookshop now! Sources: Drowned cookbooks: https://www.eater.com/2022/1/27/22904560/cookbook-delays-shipping-container-collapse-melissa-clark-mason-hereford New words in Merriam-Webster:

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00:55:19

Episode 6: Whimsy, Art, History: Rise of Manga

The Ink Sink ·

2022/04/25

Canada considering legislation to require Google and Meta to pay for news featured on their platforms: https://pressgazette.co.uk/canada-online-news-act-google-meta-facebook/ Connecticut joins the state legislatures trying to regulate library costs with publishers: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/88625-connecticut-introduces-library-e-book-bill.html Great quote: "Libraries regularly pay four to five times what consumers pay for the same e-books and then

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00:47:12

Episode 5: Banned Books Bash

The Ink Sink ·

2022/03/16

In this episode, we tell you the secret to combatting misinformation: don't speak to anyone, ever -- even your token extrovert. Trust us. We also fangirl over the unbridled chaotic good that is Chuck Tingle. Plus, we'll show you the other side of banned books: a publisher that's giving a home to controversial books. Here are our sources! Several legacy magazines will be ending their print runs. Most of the coverage is either apocalyptic or rosy, here's something more measured:

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00:53:51

Episode 4: The Truth Is Allowed to be Strange

The Ink Sink ·

2022/02/26

Kali's life is a sitcom. Rasputin is a bigger alpha male than anyone. Things get weird. You can find our news sources here: Anne Frank book controversy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/apology-over-dutch-book-that-claimed-to-identify-anne-franks-betrayer A Tennessee school board has ruled that the graphic novel MAUS should be taken out of the eighth-grade curriculum: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/sales-maus-soar-tennessee-school-board-ban.html We've talked about

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00:44:05

Episode 3: The Spine Collector

The Ink Sink ·

2022/01/26

We don't have a main segment today, there is TOO MUCH NEWS. The FBI says that they've captured the Spine Collector, and we are not able to contain ourselves. We cover all the news that's happened since we last sat down, and we celebrate some amazing women in publishing. Links for today's news: Denzel in Macbeth trailer: https://www.indiewire.com/2021/11/tragedy-of-macbeth-new-trailer-denzel-washington-1234681529/ Prison libraries have a long history of significance, and one campaigner plans to say

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00:46:18

Episode 2: SCPs Are Somehow Cooler Than You Think

The Ink Sink ·

2022/01/04

Welcome back to the Ink Sink! The reading, writing, and publishing podcast for the rest of us. Kali and Annie go into the news in the industry this week (with a special appearance by our King of Kings, Nic Cage). Then we talk about what we're reading. And our main topic for today is SCPs. If you haven't heard of them, don't worry, we'll do the deep dive for you. We'll also tell you how important they are in the world of collaborative fiction, shared universes, and the future of micro fiction. Didn't

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