Cool Zone Media Book Club
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Show overview
Cool Zone Media Book Club has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 125 episodes. That works out to roughly 70 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 37 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Fiction show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 52 episodes published. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 125 episodesCZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 1
CZM Book Club: Discussing Two Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
CZM Book Club: Where the Phph Pebbles Go, by Miriam Allen DeFord
CZM Book Club: Against the State by James Stout
CZM Book Club: Selected Poems of Voltairine de Cleyre
Happy National Poetry Month! Margaret reads some poems from a "Classic Age" anarchist poet and agitatorSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 catSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 glassSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: St. Juju, by Rivers Solomon
Margaret reads you a story about mushrooms, trash, and coming to terms with an imperfect utopiaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Girls Who Look Through Glass, by Alex Smith
Margaret reads you a story about the magic embeded into the mundaneSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: A Story from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Margaret reads you a medieval comedic tale of trickery and lust.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Comet, by W.E.B. Du Bois
Margaret reads you a 1920 classic fiction story by the seminal theoristSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 poetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Black Hole, by November Rush
Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 aidSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, Part One
Margaret reads you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders, Part Two
Margaret concludes reading you a story about subculture and love and how things changeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders, Part One
Margaret reads you a story about the far-post-apocalypse and the joy we find in one another.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: A Cup of Tea, by Katherine Mansfield
Margaret reads you a story about class and patriarchy but don't worry it's not as pedantic as that makes it sound.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: "The Orchard of Tomorrow" by Kelsea Yu
Margaret reads you a story about what enormous love it will take to rebuild the world and take back what's ours from the powerful. Original Airdate: 7.21.2024See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Everything that Isn't Winter, by Margaret Killjoy, Part Two
Margaret reads you part two (of two) of her own story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.