{"podcast":{"title":"Books and Boba","slug":"books-and-boba-53035","podcast_index_feed_id":53035,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/booksandboba/","website_url":"https://booksandboba.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/561d51de-e9c6-42aa-804f-ddadf2fa47a8/1473319899artwork.jpg","author":"Potluck Podcast Collective","episode_count":367,"summary":"Books & Boba is a book club dedicated to books written by Asian and Asian American authors. We cover a wide range of genres including contemporary, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, YA, nonfiction, thrillers, graphic novels, and memoirs.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T02:20:24.944933+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035"},"episode":{"title":"#337 - Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi","slug":"337-taiwan-travelogue-by-yang-shuang-zi","published_at":"2025-12-08T17:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035/337-taiwan-travelogue-by-yang-shuang-zi","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035","url":"https://booksandboba.captivate.fm/episode/337-taiwan-travelogue-by-yang-shuang-zi","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9b1ef276-7ff4-4109-b664-bebbd3d35101.mp3","summary":"On this episode we discuss our November 2025 book club pick, Taiwan Travelogue  by Shuang-zi Yang, translated by Lin King, a historical fiction novel (with a meta-fiction twist) about a Japanese travel writer invited to write about the imperial colony of Taiwan by the Japanese government in the 1930's, and follows her budding relationship with her Taiwanese translator as they eat through the island while she pushes on the boundaries between colonizer and colonized. Books & Boba is a podcast dedicated to reading and featuring books by Asian and Asian American authors Support the Books & Boba Podcast by: Joining our Patreon to receive exclusive perks Purchasing books at our bookshop Rocking our Books & Boba merch Follow our hosts: Reera Yoo ( @reeraboo ) Marvin Yueh ( @marvinyueh ) Follow us: Instagram Twitter Goodreads Facebook The Books & Boba December 2025 pick is Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala This podcast is part of  Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective Mentioned in this episode: Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC The National Asian American Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS brings an all-AANHPI cast to The Public Theater for a decades-spanning saga of Joan of Arc, warring dukes, and the bloody birth of the War of the Roses. Adapted by Stephen Brown-Fried, this is Shakespeare like you've never experienced it. Part 1: Foreign Wars opens with a king dead, an infant on the throne, and a country already coming apart at the seams. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later...and the bloodbath is yet to come. Simmering feuds explode into the War of the Roses, and nothing will ever be the same. Performances from June 9 thr…","meta_description":"On this episode we discuss our November 2025 book club pick, Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang, translated by Lin King, a historical fiction novel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3780,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/books-and-boba-53035/episodes/337-taiwan-travelogue-by-yang-shuang-zi/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035/337-taiwan-travelogue-by-yang-shuang-zi.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}