Episode 147: KTCO "Book" Club - Baldur's Gate 3 (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)
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02/28/24 • 78 min
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For this KTCO “Book” Club conversation, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall returns to the show to talk about the game Baldur’s Gate 3. In our conversation, Maggie and I talked about what it’s like to experience a story with so many branching paths, how player choices reflect the player’s personality, as well as some standout storytelling moments from the game.
(Recorded February 9, 2024.)
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Show Notes:- Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- Purchase Baldur’s Gate 3
- Purchase The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
- Preorder The Worst Ronin
- Pools of Darkness
- Unlimited Adventures
- Icewind Dale
- Baldur’s Gate 2
- Octopath Traveler
- The Last of Us
- The Adventure Zone
- Dungeons & Daddies
- Neil Newbon
- Roger Ebert - “Video games can never be art”
- The Brothers Sun
- Sarah Lotz - The Impossible Us
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
For this KTCO “Book” Club conversation, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall returns to the show to talk about the game Baldur’s Gate 3. In our conversation, Maggie and I talked about what it’s like to experience a story with so many branching paths, how player choices reflect the player’s personality, as well as some standout storytelling moments from the game.
(Recorded February 9, 2024.)
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Support:Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser
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Show Notes:- Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- Purchase Baldur’s Gate 3
- Purchase The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
- Preorder The Worst Ronin
- Pools of Darkness
- Unlimited Adventures
- Icewind Dale
- Baldur’s Gate 2
- Octopath Traveler
- The Last of Us
- The Adventure Zone
- Dungeons & Daddies
- Neil Newbon
- Roger Ebert - “Video games can never be art”
- The Brothers Sun
- Sarah Lotz - The Impossible Us
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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1 RecommendationsOlatunde Osinaike is a poet based in Atlanta, GA. In his debut full-length poetry collection, Tender Headed, Olatunde explores Black masculinity, both celebrating and interrogating it in his sonically virtuosic poems. We talked about his approach to poetry, what poetic lineage means to him, and the silences inherent in patriarchy. Then for the second segment, we talked about departure albums and André 3000’s New Blue Sun.
(Recorded January 20, 2024.)
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Show Notes:- Olatunde Osinaike
- Purchase Tender Headed: 44th and 3rd Booksellers (Atlanta, GA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Akashic Books (publisher)
- Olatunde Osinaike - Upcoming Events
- Bonus Reading for Patreon Subscribers: Olatunde Osinaike reads “Being Human Takes a Lot of Nerve”
- Etheridge Knight - “The Sun Came”
- Gwendolyn Brooks - “truth”
- Paul M. Angle - “We Asked Gwendolyn Brooks about the Creative Environment in Illinois”
- André 3000 - New Blue Sun
- American Fiction
- They Cloned Tyrone
- Tristan Harris
- Knives Out
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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Episode 148: Sarah Rose Etter
Sarah Rose Etter is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. In Sarah’s latest novel, Ripe, a young woman is trapped in a dream-job-turned-corporate-nightmare at a cutthroat Silicon Valley tech startup. Her bosses are capricious and cruel, the city she lives in is crumbling under late capitalism, and everywhere she goes she is followed by her own personal black hole. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about the relationship between her surrealist fiction and poetry, why visual art is important to her, and what it means for a character to have agency. Then for the second segment we discussed dead authors, reading in translation, and creative insecurity.
(Recorded March 2, 2024.)
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Show Notes:- Sarah Rose Etter
- Purchase Ripe: Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
- Sarah Rose Etter - The Book of X
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- Kristen Arnett
- Sarah Rose Etter - “Unpublishable: Censored Emails from Noam Chomsky”
- Alina Szapocznikow
- Vija Celmins
- Nylon - “Sarah Rose Etter’s Ripe and the Rotted Underbelly of Capitalism”
- Sarah Rose Etter - “Inside the Cardboard Box of My Heart”
- Mark Rothko
- Louise Bourgeois
- Donald Judd
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