CZM Book Club: St. Juju, by Rivers Solomon
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Margaret reads you a story about mushrooms, trash, and coming to terms with an imperfect utopia
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:11.2 | Book club. |
| 0:12.2 | Book club. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to Coolzone Media Book Club. |
| 0:17.1 | The only book club. |
| 0:18.8 | Period. |
| 0:19.9 | The only book club. And. The only book club. |
| 0:21.4 | And this week, I have a story seeped in the earthy, sweet scent of mushrooms and garbage. |
| 0:30.7 | Everyone likes mushrooms and garbage, right? |
| 0:32.7 | This is a story about mushrooms and garbage. |
| 0:34.9 | Because today, we are reading St. Juju by the Powerhouse River |
| 0:40.8 | Solomon. Rivers is most known for their haunting and beautiful fantasy horror novels, but today |
| 0:47.3 | we have a far future utopian short story for you, packed full of queer yearning, dog girls, and a heaping portion of fungus, |
| 0:57.4 | and characters coming to terms of the reality that violence and oppression are much more |
| 1:01.3 | difficult to eradicate than it seems, but also fungus. And it's much more hopeful than that |
| 1:06.9 | makes it sound. This story, St. Juju, was originally published in 2019 by The Verge |
| 1:13.3 | as part of their series Better Worlds, |
| 1:16.2 | which was a science fiction series about hope, |
| 1:18.6 | and it was released with some abs of frutely stunning animation of the characters |
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