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Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Weird Science, Bizarre History, & Strange Medicine: we host authors of PECULIAR nonfiction! Want to know why animals evolved to suck blood? Or the secrets of sword-swallowers? Curious about Vagina Obscura? Or the astrophysics of a dying universe? We've 3 shows to tempt you: the PBC podcast (from Mary Roach to Ed Yong), Peculiar at the Movies with Davey Berris (where factoids meet celluloid); and Peculiar in Mystery (thrillers + true crime!) Join host Brandy Schillace, as seen on THE…
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Come Dig Up Some Flora-Fossils with Riley Black and Bethany Brookshire
Featured: RILEY BLACK, When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest RomanceA favorite author returns! Once again featuring the marvelous…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're all a buzz about The Fly (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're giving credit where credit is due with Allison Tyra and Uncredited
Uncredited proves that not only have there been hundreds of ground-breaking women in all professions, but that their accomplishments have been overlooked…
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There are Monsters Among Us with Surekha Davies and HUMANS
Featuring : SUREKHA DAVIES, Humans: A Monstrous HistoryGuess what? We are featuring one of our own! Surekha Davis, long time peculiar, debuts a book on…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe've got a long climb with Chuck Wendig and The Staircase in the Woods (Peculiar Mystery Club)
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're making a splash with Free Willy (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're having a sobering discussion with Abbi Waxman and One Death at a Time (Peculiar Mystery Club)
When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and professional thorn in the side of authority, runs into Natasha Mason at an AA meeting, it’s anything but a…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastJoin Us for a "Killer" Show about WHALES! We're on the Seas with Hanne Strager
Featuring : HANNE STRAGER, The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of OrcasORCA! It’s about time one of our Book Club shows featured these fascinating…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe'll All Be Faithful Unto DEATH with Paul Koudounaris
Featuring : PAUL KOUDOUNARIS, Faithful unto Death: Pet cemeteries, animal graves, and eternal devotionWhen a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners…
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We'll bring the road trip snacks with Sarah Kendzior and The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastYou're Getting a BRAND NEW appreciation for the Female Body with Cat Bohannon and Eve
Featuring : CAT BOHANNON, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human EvolutionYou loved Rachel Gross’s VAGINA OBSCURA? Of course you did. Then…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're Killing it with Deanna Raybourn and Kills Well with Others (Peculiar Mystery Club)
“Much like fine wine, battle-hardened assassins grow better with age.” #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner Four women assassins, senior in…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe will seek out new life with Star Trek: The Next Generation (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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Slow down, take a breath with Carl Zimmer and Air-Borne
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down Every day we draw…
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We'll Discover the Possibility of LIFE with Jaime Green!
Featuring:JAIME GREEN, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the CosmosOne of the most powerful questions humans ask…
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We'll have you believing in Lydia Kang and Pseudoscience
From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily…
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Our minds and bodies will be linked with Pamela Ryckan and Candace Pert
I loved this book so much that I wrote the Wall Street Journal review for it! It’s an absolutely madcap and unexpected take on history I thought I knew… But I…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe've got the optics on The Invisible Man (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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You might struggle to see us with Gregory Gbur and Invisibility
It’s like that Monty Python Sketch… There are good reasons to know how not to be seen, and Gregory Gbur is ready to tell us all about the SCIENCE. Come now…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe've got some real bite with Interview with the Vampire (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We'll give you something to Chew On with Bill Schutt and Bite: A Natural History of Teeth
If you follow the Peculiar Book Club Facebook group, you’ll know Bill Schutt is EXACTLY our kind of weird. He’s a vertebrate zoologist and author of six…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe'll dance around the issues with Black Swan (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're bringing the Pain with Leigh Cowart (and Rachel Feltman) and Hurt So Good
Can pain… be pleasure? I was never one to experience a runner’s high, or to enjoy ‘feeling the burn’ after a workout. But are there ways—or times—when pain…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're on the case with An Inspector Calls (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of The…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastYou're going to need a drink to watch Grabbers (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, for some…
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You are all Suspects with Brandy Schillace and The Framed Women of Ardemore House
An abandoned English manor. A peculiar missing portrait. A cozy, deviously clever muder mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horwitz. Jo…
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You're going to be Obsessed with Maria Dong and Liar, Dreamer, Thief
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of…
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You're wondering what we have to say about Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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One thing will lead to another with Lucy Santos and Chain Reactions
Tracing uranium’s past, and how it intersects with our understanding of other radioactive elements, this book aims to disentangle our attitudes and to unpick…
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Amit Katwala (Tremors in the Blood) and Patti McCracken (Angel Makers) plus Deborah Blum
You asked and we delivered! Pulitzer-prize winning science journalist Deborah Blum—author of The Poisoner’s Handbook—returns to PBC! This time, she comes to us…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe've got trouble, right here on the Peculiar Book Club, with The Music Man (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We'll confess our crimes with Dean Jobb and A Gentleman Thief
Suave and movie-star handsome, Arthur Barry charmed New York celebrities as he planned and executed some of the most brazen and lucrative heists of the 1920s…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastThe chase is on for Moby Dick (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're having a Whale of a Time with Daniel Kraus (and Mary Roach) and Whalefall
Just imagine for a moment—you are swimming in the cold dark of the Pacific Ocean, trying to find the lost remains of your father. But you aren’t alone. There…
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This episode will be a real Beauty with Zara Stone and Killer Looks
How much do looks really matter? In society, whether we like it or not, how we look affects how we are treated—and even what opportunities we might have in…
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Make sure to Scrub In for Anthony Chin-Quee and I Can't Save You
What happens when racism is not a bug in the system—but in fact IS the system? And the Health System, at that. Imagine being a high-achieving person of color…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe are traveling the stars with 2001: A Space Odyssey (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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Hey Siri, put on the Peculiar Book Club with Liz Faber (and Rebecca Gibson) and The Computer Voice
“Siri, what does it mean to have gender?” We have become very used to the dis-embodied voices that surround us, from the voice answering to ‘Siri’ to the one…
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We are making contact with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're following the Law with AJ Jacobs and The Year of Living Constitutionally
A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of strange looks. In the…
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We're Invading your Minds with Marc Hartzman and We Are Not Alone
Ever look up at the night sky and wonder what else is really out there? Or, like me, do you watch shows like Resident Alien with Alan Tudyk and realize you…
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You'll really Dig our conversation with Greg Melville and Over My Dead Body
Grave yard. Cemetery. These are some of my favorite things! But walking through graveyards isn’t just about getting your goth on. Cemeteries tell our human…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe are getting Microscopic with Innerspace (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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You'll fall in love with Wendy Moore and Jack and Eve
In this bonus episode of the Peculiar Book Club we got a chance to sit down with author Wendy Moore for a preview conversation of her new book Jack and Eve…
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We are Positively Charged to talk with Dan Levitt and What's Gotten Into You
You know those amazing science document-aries you love so much? National Geo-graphic, Discover, Science, and History Channels? Yeah, you need to thank Dan…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're on a Collision Course with Don't Look Up (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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You won't be able to Deny what you learn from Sheril Kirshenbaum and Unscientific America
The earth is not flat. Vaccines work and they don’t make you magnetic. Global warming is real. Covid is airborne. But you will hear a great deal to the…
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ASK US ANYTHING! Our first open show!
Surely you have questions… Weird, pressing questions. Tonight, we host our first ever AMA! You can try to stump Davey! You can inquire about my weirder…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're showing off our flair bartending with Cocktail (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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Glam up for revolution with GLITTER AND CONCRETE - A Cultural History of Drag in New York by Elyssa Max Goodman.
From journalist and drag historian Elyssa Maxx Goodman, an intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age…
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You're Guaranteed to get Tipsy with Camper English and Doctors and Distillers
Ever read The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart? I have. Several times, actually. Well, guess what book SHE is reading? “At last,” she writes, “a definitive…
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You're really bugging us for Bethany Brookshire and Pests
Let’s imagine you’re nestling down for a good nap. You’ve already been to the market for food stuffs, you have filled your larder, and you even managed to get…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastTrust us, there's a lot of fun things to talk about with Antitrust (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're pulling a Job with Cory Doctorow and The Internet Con
Remember when wasting time on Twitter and Facebook was… fun? When we thought a future of connection awaited us, with endless promise? Those hopes have not aged…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastGetting into the Peculiar Holiday Spirit with The Nightmare Before Christmas (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, for a little bit…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe have the Power with Masters of the Universe (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of…
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Wonder Woman? He-Man? Yes, please! An evening with Amanda Deibert!
We are THRILLED to have the multi-talented and best selling Amanda Deibert on our show! Author, screenwriter, and much more--AND her newest book, the daily…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastIt's a Differential Diagnosis with the TV Show House (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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AROUSE yourself with Randi Hutter Epstein and the history of HORMONES
How about a guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them? Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastIt's an extra Halloween Treat with The Wicker Man (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, as a special…