Dick Van Dyke's British Accent invites you to experience the reunion episode of Shipwreck in the comfort of your earholes. We invite seven formerly dignified writers to take on adult characters from P.L. Travers's series of novels about haunted nannies and talented *ahem* chimney sweeps. Does Mrs. Banks have a first name? And what the heck's a "matchman" anyhow? Can and should you absolutely still be shopping at Booksmith on its website booksmith.com and enjoying free shipping in San Francisco? ...
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 59
It's BYO cocaine to the very last New York Comic Con Shipwreck. We Cujoled six hilarious people to compete On Writing so that one might emerge The Shining winner of Shipwreck. Whose story will Carrie them to victory, and who will leave in Misery? Join us to learn the answers to It. Stories by Ziwe Fumudoh, Ivan Hernandez, Seanan McGuire, Lily Miller, Alanna Okun, and Nate Waggoner. Stories read by Randy Havens.
Mar 19, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 58
It's BYO cocaine to endure the Misery of the very last monthly Shipwreck show. We Cujoled seven of San Francisco's best writers to compete On Writing so that one might emerge The Shining winner of Shipwreck. Whose story will Carrie them to victory, and who will stay in The Dead Zone? Join us to learn the answers to It. Stories by Justin Lucas, Corin Chellberg, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Joe Wadlington, Charlotte Hollingsworth, Michael Howley, and Jamie Real. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 57
Break out the Cutty Sark and jump in the nearest well: it's time for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle . We take four humans and two animals from Murakami's most iconic book and assign them to six writers tasked with the impossible: creating even weirder sex scenes than the ones in the book. Is naming yourself Malta better or worse than saying 'the loo' after your year abroad? Is Toru the most boring person in all of literature? Will there be weird asides about spaghetti and the war? Turn on, tune in, ...
Mar 05, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 56
Hey Whalers, and welcome back aboard The Good Ship Wreck, where we take on possibly the only book with more penis jokes than an episode of this show. We'll talk whale facts, take that smarmy Captain Ahab down a peg, and confess our sincere, unabashed love for this truly unhinged tale of whale vengeance and smokin' hot platonic love. To put it in Melville's own words: “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” With stories from Ash Fisher, Corin Chellberg...
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 55
Hey hunnys. If Disney can make Christopher Robin look like a horror film, we can make the Pooh Forest universe into an orgy. After all, as Pooh himself famously said, "You don't spell [love]...you feel it." So let's feel it together, with thanks to Meg Elison, Lauren Parker, Maia Jannele, Joe Wadlington, Sarah Manolis, and The Horrible Heffal-hump. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Oct 18, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 54
Sexual tension, heavy drinking, sensitive characters, intolerable heat, and it all ends in madness? Yep, sounds like Shipwreck. Thanks to Anand Vedawala, Spencer Tierney, Mel Burke, Alan Leggitt, Kelly Anneken, and Joe Wadlington for helping us take ol' Tennessee "Best Play Ever" Williams down a peg. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 53
[TK] Featuring the writing of Jared Schwartz, Joe Wadlington, Chris Philpot, Stephanie Smith, Adriana Vazquez, and Stephanie Lacy-Price. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 52
The main thing that Shipwreck and The Sun Also Rises have in common is that they render sex thoroughly unappetizing and deeply frightening for all parties involved. We hope Sebastian Sangervasi, Adriana Vazquez, Kirstie Haruta, Vivienne Pustell, and Corin Chellberg are enjoying their hangovers from our Pamplona vacation. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Sep 06, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 51
You would think that removing the children from A Wrinkle in Time would improve it considerably, but unfortunately that means you're left with religious overtones, a bunch of witches who think they're better than you, and a general sense of being disappointed by your parents. With thanks to Annalee Newitz, Yona Malone, Lily Miller, Molly Sanchez, and Sarah Lyn Rogers for tesser-acting in good faith. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Aug 23, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 50
[Extreme movie trailer narrator voice] Imagine a world that revolves around the specific basic mainstream garbage entertainment that one white dude likes. Shipwreck reams up with Komedio SF to present Ready Player Fun! just in time for the movie release. Jump in the DeLorean with Kristee Ono, Stephen Ku, Tirumari Jothi, Thomas Paras, Marc Abrigo, and Molly Sanchez. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 49
We here at Shipwreck can't resist a faux-rogueish manchild. Sneak off to the garden with Tina LeCount Myers, Zoe Young, Carson Beker, Sarah Lyn Rogers, Tessa Gregory, and Alan Leggitt as we make out with Jane Eyre at long last, just in time for Valentine's Day. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Jun 14, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 48
Are you tired of Earth? These people? Are you tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives? Join us on Mars to mope sexily about Watchmen, with the help of Charlie Jane Anders, Sarah Elizabeth Blake, Nick Baker, Claire Rice, Alan Leggitt, and Annie. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
May 31, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 47
Let's oversimplify the French Revolution! Shipwreck goes #DeepDickens with A Tale of Two Cities, because Fanfic recognizes Fanfic. This month's fellow revolutionaries include Lily Miller, Mel Burke, Moon Choe, Diane Glazman, Claire Rice, and Meg Elison. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
May 17, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 46
Still the beating of your hideous heart: October was Shipwreck at it's Goth-est, as we presented a buffet of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories for your consumption. (See what we did there?) Forever sitting on the pallid busts of Pallas in our hearts are Sarah Elizabeth Blake, Meghan Trowbridge, Sarah Manolis, Kaeli Quick, Sang S. Kim, and Ken Grobe. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
May 03, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 45
Life found a way to Brooklyn for NYCC with the help of Rakesh Satyal, Ryan C. Britt, Nate "Littlest Uncle" Waggoner, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Alisha Rai, Arianna Rebolini, and Katie Heaney. Stories performed by Dylan Marron.
Apr 19, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 44
This year's Stephen King extravaganza came one month early, to celebrate the 2017 movie adaptation of It. Get ready to ingest an alarming concoction of small town faux-quaintness, childhood horrors, and, most importantly, cocaine jokes. Featuring: Lily Miller, Jamie Leigh Real, India Sabater, Molly Sanchez, and Ken Grobe. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Apr 05, 2018•57 min•Ep. 43
This month we teamed up with the Bay Area's premier sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster to get our Shakespeare on. Join us in Fairyland for A Midsummer Night's (Wet) Dream with Amanda Rosenberg, Rinee Shah, The Bardi Twins, Ken Grobe, Sean Owens, Margaux Poupard, and Sam Bertken. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 42
Hello, old chaps! It's our 50th show, so join us as we get zozzled in the classiest, most glamorous locale we can imagine: Long Island. Pinch some hooch and get a wiggle on with these hotsy-totsy sarcasts as they razz the The Great Gatsby. This month's Real McCoy's: Andrea Grimes, Lauren Parker, Miles Klee, Madeline Gobbo, Molly Sanchez, and Ms. P. And how! Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Mar 22, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 41
Greetings, Merry Pornsters! For the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Shipwreck writes fanfiction about Tom Wolfe's Summer of Love fanfiction epic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with some generation-defining work by Lauren Parker, Kendra McPhee, Meg Elison, Julia Wilde, Chase Kamp, and the Cummer of Love. Hop on the bus. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Mar 19, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 40
It's Shipwreck versus George Bernard Shaw.
Aug 27, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 39
In April we got a little too on the nose with 1984. Sexy contraband care of India Sabater, Jared Schwartz, Kaeli Quick, Natalie Warner, Lily Miller, and Moon Choe. All fic read by notorious collaborator Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Aug 20, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 38
It's hard to believe we've all pretty much forgotten about Disney's horrifying Beauty and the Beast reboot, but back in March it was all anyone was talking about. Anyway, we did a show on the subject with gross takes by Joe Wadlington, Sarah Manolis, Kamala Puligandla, Persephone Karnstein-Wieland, Meghan Trowbridge, and Lily Miller—all read by national treasure Baruch Porras-Hernandez. Sorry.
Aug 13, 2017•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 37
In February of 2017 we "wandered the moors," so to speak, with Lily Miller, Amanda Rosenberg, Ms. P, Ivan Hernandez and Leah Reich. Things got molderingly sexy, as you might imagine. Ghost sounds by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Aug 06, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 36
Back in January we set our sights on that testament of quality American living and animal husbandry that is Little House on the Prairie. Doling out glimpses of frontier romance were our guest writers Hope Waggoner, Tirumari Jothi, Tess Barry, Michael Howley, Meg Trowbridge, and Daphne Gottlieb. Horse sounds by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Jul 30, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 35
December, 2016 we saddled up with our buddy Victor Hugo and talk-sung our way through a life of crime. Stories by Meghann Hayes, Kelly Anneken, Pam Benjamin, Rebecca Rubenstein, Michael Howley, Danny Nguyen. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Jul 24, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 34
Look out below, it's Shipwreck's fourth annual Stephen Kingtober...vember. This year we tackled Pet Sematary, a gross tale of grief and what have you. Stories by Amanda Rosenberg, Lauren Wheeler, Kathy Ames, Elaine Gavin, Jamie L. Real, and Nicole Love. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
May 20, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 33
To celebrate the New York release of our anthology, Loose Lips, we invited Mara Wilson to read Princess Bride erotica to several hundred of our closest friends at NYCC. Featuring the writing of Michelle Hodkin, Daniel Jose Older, Arianna Rebolini & Katie Heaney, Seanan McGuire, Diana Pho, and Dana Schwartz. Yeah. It was a big deal and the podcast is minimally edited to preserve the insane energy of the event.
Apr 17, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 32
To celebrate the San Francisco release of our anthology, Loose Lips, we invited Cecil Baldwin to read Princess Bride erotica to a few hundred of our closest friends. Featuring the writing of Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Michelle Threadgould, Baruch Porras Hernandez, Jane Harrison and Muffin McCue. With apologies to your childhood.
Jan 24, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 31
For our first tango with contemporary chick lit, we turned to one of the most successful and memorable titles we could think of and invited Molly Sanchez, Amanda Faye, Amanda Rosenberg, Joshua Redel, Ash Fisher, and Julia Wilde to do us proud by doing their worst. The results were worthy of any number of film adaptations.
Jan 24, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 30
