Cool Zone Media Book Club
Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don’t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.
CZM Book Club: "Organizing Social Spaces as if Social Relations Matter," by Cindy Barukh Milstein (Part One of Three)
Margaret reads you some non-fiction with advice for organizers
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CZM Book Club: "Persephone, Traveling," by Briar Ripley Page
Margaret reads you a comfy, cozy story about a robot colony on the moon, and one robot's journey to find a new home--and have her tarot cards read
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CZM Book Club: "The Simulacrum," by Max Turner
Margaret and Hazel read you a found documents story about a government experiment gone wrong
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CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 2)
We continue our conversation with Dr. Treasure about Herny Dumas and touch on all sorts of topics from Hoodoo to Fannie Lou Hamer to being mentored by one's father.
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CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 1)
Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond reads Margaret and Hazel a ghost story about transcendance, legacy and an unearthly river boat, by exalted ancestor Henry Dumas who was murdered by a white cop in 1968.
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CZM Book Club: "The Devil Lives Here," by Margaret Killjoy
Margaret kicks off spooky month by sharing a spooky story of her own about a haunted cave and the 90s teens who get lost in it
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CZM Book Club Presents: Stories from "Black Box," by Mata Kastrisiou and translated by Kostas Kaltsas
Margaret reads you 4 very short, dream like stories from a collection by a Greek author
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CZM Book Club: Ocotillo, by Madeline ffitch
Margaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authors
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CZM Book Club: Reverse Book Club: Talking "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" with Bridget, Hazel and All of You
To close out Black August, Margaret sits down with Bridget Todd and Hazel Acacia to finish talking about one of the most iconic Trek episodes ever made (S6E13: Far Beyond the Stars of Deep Space Nine)- and you're invited
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CZM Reverse Book Club: Talking "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" with Bridget, Hazel, and All of You
To close out Black August, Margaret sits down with Bridget Todd and Hazel Acacia to talk about one of the most iconic Trek episodes ever made (S6E13: Far Beyond the Stars of Deep Space Nine)- and you're invited
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CZM Rewind: Plastic People, by Tobias Buckell
Margaret reads Gare a story in making fun of rich people in space
Original Air Date: 12.03.2023
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CZM Book Club: Jesus Christ in Texas, by W.E.B. DuBois
Margaret reads a story about a strange visitor by a civil rights activist and writer
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CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas
Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prison
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CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe, by Alex Smith, Part Two
Prince Shakur returns to finish reading Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August
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CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe by Alex Smith, Part One
Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August
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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)
Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge
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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)
Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House
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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four)
Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego
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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four)
For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium
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CZM Book Club: Two Stories from Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer
Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors
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CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: CZM Book Club Presents: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution
Original Air Date: 6.1.2025
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CZM Book Club: Poems by Incarcerated Authors -- with In The Belly Magazine
This week, In The Belly is doing a take over to feature the poems of incarcerated writers in their own voices
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CZM Book Club: Phone Resistance, by Safear Ness -- with In The Belly Magazine
This week we are collaborating with In The Belly Magazine to read you a short memoir piece about organizing behind bars.
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CZM Book Club: The End, Like Sand, by Margaret Killjoy
Margaret reads you a story about how to set up mutual aid societies in the wake of social collapse, and how to fight against cannibal nazis from the suburbs
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CZM Book Club: Clashing/Complementary, by Rafi Kleiman
Margaret reads you a story about an enchanted graffiti turf war and a flying bike chase.
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CZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 2
Margaret continues with the final part of a gutting story about rejection and re-accimlation
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CZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 1
Margaret reads you the first part of a story about kids who grew up on the moon
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CZM Book Club: Discussing Two Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret discusses your reactions to Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and "The Day Before the Revolution" with Hazel Acacia and Steven Monacelli
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CZM Book Club: Where the Phph Pebbles Go, by Miriam Allen DeFord
Margaret reads you a 1963 science fiction story of class stratification, sports, and first contact.
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CZM Book Club: Against the State by James Stout
James reads Margaret the first chapter of his new book
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CZM Book Club: Selected Poems of Voltairine de Cleyre
Happy National Poetry Month! Margaret reads some poems from a "Classic Age" anarchist poet and agitator
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CZM Book Club: All Cats Are Grey, by Andre Alice Norton
Margaret reads you some golden-age pulp sci-fi about a hypercompetant space captain and her trusty cat
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CZM Book Club: The Cloud Weaver's Song, by Saul Tanpepper
Margaret reads you a story about climate refugees, ancestors, and giant spider robots that weave webs of glass
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CZM Book Club: St. Juju, by Rivers Solomon
Margaret reads you a story about mushrooms, trash, and coming to terms with an imperfect utopia
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CZM Book Club: Girls Who Look Through Glass, by Alex Smith
Margaret reads you a story about the magic embeded into the mundane
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CZM Book Club: A Story from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Margaret reads you a medieval comedic tale of trickery and lust.
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CZM Book Club: The Comet, by W.E.B. Du Bois
Margaret reads you a 1920 classic fiction story by the seminal theorist
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CZM Book Club: The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh, by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Margaret reads you a lush post-apocalyptic slice of life story by an amazing poet
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CZM Book Club: Black Hole, by November Rush
Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites.
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CZM Book Club: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, Part Two
Margaret continues to read you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid
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