Back in August of 2016, full of hope for the future, we undertook the pornification of that book burning book with our friends Ruby Gill, Michelle Threadgould, Mikah McCabe, Alan Leggitt, Kathy Ames, and Albert Lusting. Anyway, time makes fools of us all.
Who could forget that time in late July of 2016 when our sister show Boat Crash gave a send up of our completely made up book about a magical school with our friends Erin Judge, Sarah Jeong, Anna Pulley, Kwan Booth, Samuel Rye, John William, and Joe Wadlington? Not us, that's who. Our special guest reader was Fauxnique. The real winner was all of us.
Oh man. It's been like six months since the last episode. Sorry. Consider this fantastic evening in earnest celebration of one of Literature's brightest works as a sign that we're back on track. All the way from last July, we unlocked history's most definitely smart and real code with help from Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, Ash Fisher, Michael Howley, Evan Burton, Amanda Rosenberg, and Jared Schwartz. BEHOLD!
Welcome to, as far as we know, the only place on the internet to find erotic fanfiction based on the Sherlock Holmes canon. Special thanks to Bay Area Book Fest and the city of Berkeley for putting up with us. Featuring the writing of Deborah Kenmore, Lily Miller, Erin Spannan, Mike Ottum, and Anna Pulley as read by Sir Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
In this episode, Shipwreck brings you Alice in Wonderland fanfiction without the annoying hassle of wanting to punch Johnny Depp in his smug fucking face for two hours. Down the rabbit hole we go. Featuring the writing of Amanda Rosenberg, George Chen, Sarah Stanton, Eden Temple, and Damian Ledbetter as read by Sir Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
In the words of GRRM, "No one man should have all that power. #watchthethrone." Point being, we did A Song of Ice and Fire. Baruch read great work by Miss P, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Red Scott, Tomas Moniz, Alan Leggitt and Gabriel Cubbage. Many an #actually was bandied.
We finally got around to digging up Shakespeare, and how better to break him in than with his earlier digging up of a Roman dignitary? Brandishing the knives: Allison Page, Michael Howley, Rebecca Rubenstein, Jennifer Dronsky, OJ Patterson, and Ms. P. Life imitating art note: this took place in the same hour the GOP was measuring its weens in a nationally televised debate.
We boned up on all the sweetest moves in Regency country dancing and threw a Pride and Prejudice ball to remember with SF's most graceful smut writers (Kelly Anneken, Lily Miller, Seanan McGuire, Ms. P, Margaret Dunlap and Jared Schwartz) in attendance. Anyway, sorry.
Maybe you thought the 2006 live-action Charlotte's Web would be the most terrifying adaptation of this beloved childhood classic you would ever have to endure. Well, as always, we're here to disappoint. Thanks to Kamala Puligandla, Jared Schwartz, Sarah Stanton, Kitty Stryker, Irene Tu, and Joe Wadlington for getting down into the filth with us.
We've paid a shilling each to Sarah Jeong, Lauren Traetto, Joe Wadlington, Eh-BONE-ezer Splooge, and two anonymous donors, swaddled them in tatty lace, and asked them to write erotic fanfiction about the class-struggle classic Great Expectations. Fortunately, they didn't jilt us at the altar. Get ready for #DeepDickens.
Listen: we asked six fantastic writers to muck up Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in the pursuit of cheap thrills, free will, and maybe even a little agency. It happened, more or less. Providing the words were Madeline Gobbo, Lauren Parker, Tara Marsden, Melissa Tan, Meg Elison, and so on. Providing the musical voice: Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Just in time for Halloween, it's Shipwreck's third annual Stephen Kingtober. This year we tackled The Master's short story cum short novel about the rigors of adult onset puberty. Hurling sanitary napkins in the locker room: Virgie Tovar, Meg Elison, Spencer Bainbridge, Jessica Lachenal, Na'amen Tilahun, and Lily Miller. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
In October of 2015 we made the arduous journey to Brooklyn's Bell House for New York Super Week and formed the fellowship of Lauren Beukes, Isaac Fitzgerald, Myke Cole, Sarah Griffin, Molly Templeton, and Ashley C Ford to take up arms against The Lord of the Rings (with Cecil Baldwin as the party's raconteur). The results: worthy of many a ribald song in the Shire after dark.
This time at Shipwreck, we examine the controversy surrounding GMOs, via the Mary Shelley classic about that monster whose name we're always forgetting. Panelists include Evan Burton, Lily Miller, Giselle Cheung, Joe Wadlington, Kitty Stryker, and Molly Sanchez. Brought to you by Monsanto.
Sharks have two penises. Here is our Jaws podcast.
Think happy thoughts, kids, and join us as we take flight for Never Land. On the hook (sorry) this month: Dusty Rose, Duffy Maher, Jared Schwartz, Nuala Sawyer, Camden Avery, and returning champ John William. Don't forget to pack your shadows.
We spliced everyone's favorite book about dinosaur mating and the woeful inadequacy of human foresight when balanced againced potential profitability with frog DNA and bing-bang-boom: hello dinosaur porn. Your guides to this island of earthly delights: Molly Rosen, Sean Kennedy, Christopher Wieland, Chase Kamp, Rebecca Rubenstein, and John William. All fic performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
This episode is a trifle, really, a pastoral meditation on the loveways of Civil War-era monied poor. Gather round the hearth, dear listeners, for the masterful prose of Pickwick Club members Lauren Parker, John William, Ferocity Prose, Louis Evans, and Kitty Stryker. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
This podcast is perfect. It's so perfect that we fear we will never be as perfect as this podcast is in this moment. It will go on forever, poised in its eternal youth, while we piss away our lives with yellow books and opium dens and gradually become twisted, unrecognizable grotesqueries of our former selves. We hate this podcast. We wish Joe Wadlington, Alan Leggitt, Sarah Stanton, Matthew Verus, and their mysterious associate had never existed. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
This episode of Shipwreck is so good it sparkles in the sunlight. That's right, the book that sparked the world's favorite proto-BDSM fanfic for the sexually repressed: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. Joshua Redel, Rebecca Rubenstein, Joe Wadlington, Na'amen Tilahun, Lauren O'Neal, and an anonymous figure watch you while you sleep. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
Finally, and at long last: Shipwreck goes Randian with Ayn's doorstop paean to libertarianism and specious causality. Doff your top hat, light a cigar, and raise a flute of Dom to Atlas Shrugged. Featuring gold-encrusted pastiche from The Walnut, Wonder Dave, Kamala Puligandla, Natalie Warner, Joe Wadlington, and an anonymous lord of industry. Read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
In May of 2015 we returned to our home away from home, Brooklyn's Bell House, to take harpoons to noteworthy national treasure Moby Dick. The show proved as monumental as the subject matter, featuring the brilliant writing of Ryan Britt, Alexander Chee, Danielle Henderson, Maris Kreizman, Maya Rodale, and Nate Waggoner — each piece masterfully performed by Cecil Baldwin. Your MC is Amy Stephenson. Your next hour is ours.
Raise your hand if you love situational irony! Oh, you sold your hands to buy yourself that ironic t-shirt? Thanks for making it awkward. Move over M Night Shyamalan: Shipwreck takes on the inventor of twist endings with O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi. With a little help from Kelly Anneken, Lauren Parker, Nico Meyering, Lauren Kennedy, and a couple of anonymous donors.
We're springing forward to November of 2014, when we were joined by a known associate of Lemony Snicket for a very special (a phrase used here to mean OMFG) Shipwreck in the key of Count Olaf. Featuring the writing of Seanan McGuire, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Andrew Sean Greer, Epson Downs, Alexis Coe and an anonymous coward as read by one Mr. Daniel Handler. Guest starring intermittent cellphone interference. Blame Verizon for their piss-poor coverage in the Haight.
Back in 2013 we checked into the Overlook Hotel with Scott Sigler, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Spencer Bainbridge, Kamala Puligandla, Amanda Simpson and one anonymous donor. Things got weird fast. Read by Steven Westdahl.
Some goddamned phonies wrote some smut based on The Catcher in the Rye. Listen to it, or don't, what do we care? Featuring Nate Waggoner, Allison Page, Jeff Hersh, Kelly McNerney, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, and one writer who doesn't want to tell you their goddamn name. Read by Steven Westdahl.
We're going way, way over the rainbow with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, thanks to Alani Foxall, Yume Kim, Colin Winnette, Ignacio Zulueta, Lauren Gallagher, and one writer who values their dignity enough to remain anonymous. Penthouse, and furries, and tin dicks, oh my! Read by Steven Westdahl.
The Hobbit, now with 50% more homoeroticism thanks to the helping hands of Camden Avery, J.R.R. Thrillkien, Lauren Traetto, Carolyn Ho, Ignacio Zulueta, and Matthew Dowd. Got a problem with the lack of lady characters? Take it up with Tolkien's misogynistic corpse. Read by Steven Westdahl.
Gatsby gets sexed-up, courtesy of Seanan McGuire, Nate Waggoner, JS Bourget, Carolyn Ho, Sarah Griffin, and an anonymous donor. Listen closely enough and you may even hear Fitzgerald masturbating furiously in the background while crying. Read by Steven Westdahl.
