Hosted by Slava & Jonathan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 180 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
If you’re a reader looking for something deeper or an indie author working on your book, The Side Quest Book Club is for you. We skip the usual book reviews and ratings. Each episode turns fun side quests into real lessons, so you’ll leave not just entertained, but with a better understanding of why storytelling matters.
Slava & Jonathan hosts The Side Quest Book Club Podcast, a arts show with 180 episodes published.
Join us as we sit down with Mark Benson, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Writerly — the thriving community transforming writers into family. In this interview, Mark shares his unconventional journey from Chicago's S
🚨 Announcement 🚨 We are taking a break, but we also have author interviews. Subscribe, tune in, and join us on Discord. Link in bio or the comments. Or here:https://discord.gg/z3qYKnKC3 ABOUT THE SIDE QUEST BOOK CLUB P
We finally finished Pride & Prejudice and have thoughts. In this season finale, Shiara, Jonathan, and Slava are joined by guest Lindsay to break down Volume 3: Darcy's secret intervention, the Lydia and Wickham disaster,
Volume 2 of Pride and Prejudice delivers the most talked-about proposal in English literature and Darcy somehow manages to insult the woman he's proposing to while doing it. In this episode of Side Quest Book Club, Shiar
In this episode, Shiara, Slava, and Jonathan dig into Volume 1 of Pride and Prejudice, and things get surprisingly heated. We break down why Jane Austen was basically living her own novel, why Mrs. Bennet is actually mor
Debbie Show joins the SideQuest crew to talk about all of it — what really happened, what she changed, and why she hired a developmental editor for two years instead of just writing the book she could have written the da
We're back to wrap up Paper Roses by debut indie author Debbie Show, and she did not disappoint. In Part 2, we cover the second half of this semi-autobiographical slice-of-life novel: betrayal, financial fraud, ethical s
What happens when family secrets span generations? When loyalty and survival become entangled with trauma? In Part 1 of our deep dive into Paper Roses by Debby Show, we're introduced to 13-year-old Abigail in 1970s San J
Raskolnikov finally confesses — but does he ever actually believe he did anything wrong? We're joined by special guest J.F. Ramos to close out Crime and Punishment with hot takes on guilt, redemption, nihilism, and what
Jonathan and Slava are back, and again they've dragged Kris and Josh into the chaos. In Part 3, Porfiry plays mind games, Raskolnikov slowly unravels, a painter randomly confesses to a murder he didn't commit, and Kateri
The gang continues its trek through St. Petersburg. No pawnbrokers were harmed during the filming of this episode. Join us as we examine the complex themes of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' including Raskoln
Kris joins us to discuss another serialized classic. This time it is Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment": A Reader’s Guide (Cultural Syllabus):
In this mini-episode, Jonathan recounts how he came to hate Crime and Punishment. Not to worry, he eventually came around. ABOUT THE BOOK In the bleak heat of 19th-century St. Petersburg, Rodion Raskolnikov, a brilliant
Calling all indie authors! Join us here on YouTube to chat about books, stories, and promote your book. ABOUT THE SIDE QUEST BOOK CLUB PODCAST Reading is the ultimate side quest. Side Quest is a casual book club podcast
In this mini-episode, Slava sets the context for understanding Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic, Crime and Punishment. ABOUT THE BOOK In the bleak heat of 19th-century St. Petersburg, Rodion Raskolnikov, a brilliant but desti
Jonathan, Slava, Spenser, and Josh watched the recent Project Hail Mary movie and had some thoughts... ABOUT THE MOVIE The wait is finally over! Project Hail Mary, the long-awaited adaptation of Andy Weir's bestselling n
We're still on Cradle, Side Questers. But this is our last episode covering this book. We are on the ninth book in Will Wight's Cradle series, Bloodline. And it gets a little spicy. Frankly, it's embarrassing. But only f
We're still on Cradle, Side Questers. We are on the ninth book in Will Wight's Cradle series, Bloodline. And it gets a little spicy. Frankly, it's embarrassing. But only for Jonathan. ABOUT THE BOOK In Bloodline (Cradle
This week, we go back to Cradle, Side Questers. We are on the ninth book in Will Wight's Cradle series, Bloodline. And it gets a little spicy. Frankly, it's embarrassing. But only for Jonathan. ABOUT THE BOOK In Bloodlin
This time, we sit down with author Debby Show. We talk generational trauma and her debut novel, Paper Novels. Author Debby Show is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and School Psychologist based in California. Wit
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
The Side Quest Book Club Podcast has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their arts audience.
The Side Quest Book Club Podcast is hosted by Slava & Jonathan. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 180 episodes.
The Side Quest Book Club Podcast has published 180 episodes.
The Side Quest Book Club Podcast regularly covers arts, books, fiction. It sits in the arts category, with a books focus.
The Side Quest Book Club Podcast is accessible for guests with genuine arts expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
The Side Quest Book Club Podcast hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of The Side Quest Book Club Podcast average 66 minutes, giving guests a long-form format with plenty of time to expand on their expertise.
Our data rates The Side Quest Book Club Podcast's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 5 days ago.