{"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":"#339 - Blackmail & Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala","slug":"339-blackmail-bibingka-by-mia-p-manansala","published_at":"2026-01-12T17:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035/339-blackmail-bibingka-by-mia-p-manansala","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-and-boba-53035","url":"https://booksandboba.captivate.fm/episode/339-blackmail-bibingka-by-mia-p-manansala","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/909b6a50-6539-4231-b2f0-00d56abcb413.mp3","summary":"Hey everyone! We're back from our holiday break for our first podcast of 2026 and we're finally discussing our December 2025 Book Club Pick Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala. A X'mas themed cozy mystery (but actually a story about family and Filipino noms). At this point, we're kind of murder mystery connoisseurs so this was the perfect end of year treat for us. Fun fact, we did an author chat with the author back in 2021 for her first book so we're excited to come back to this world for the holidays! 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 January 2026 pick is Reef by Romesh Gunesekera 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. Performance…","meta_description":"Hey everyone! We're back from our holiday break for our first podcast of 2026 and we're finally discussing our December 2025 Book Club Pick Blackmail and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3950,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/books-and-boba-53035/episodes/339-blackmail-bibingka-by-mia-p-manansala/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-53035/339-blackmail-bibingka-by-mia-p-manansala.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}