Episode 28: BSI Birthday Weekend 2024

Episode 28: BSI Birthday Weekend 2024 – Dynamics of a Podcast

It's episode one of season four, and we've got a great episode to celebrate! Monica Schmidt is here to help us recap this year's BSI Birthday Weekend in New York City, and talk about what it's like to participate in what amounts to the world's biggest Sherlockian family reunion. Please check our show notes for lots of links, because there are recordings from the Weekend, recaps, and other goodies! Your hosts are Madeline Quiñones and Dixie Parkinson. Contact us at dynamicsofapodcast@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter @dynamicsofapod and on Facebook. You can read the show notes on our website, dynamicsofapodcast.com. Thanks for listening!

It’s episode one of season four, and we’ve got a great episode to celebrate! Monica Schmidt is here to help us recap this year’s BSI Birthday Weekend in New York City, and talk about what it’s like to participate in what amounts to the world’s biggest Sherlockian family reunion.

If you’d like to see some of the things that were recorded during or else created for the Weekend, we have links!

• Flatfinders 1881, Hal Glatzer’s radio play
• The ACD Society’s Doylean Honors and the Wessex Cup, courtesy of Doings of Doyle
• The Literary Agents’ Annual Meeting 2024 on Zoom
• “Mrs. Hudson and the Return of Sherlock Holmes,” from the Gillette Luncheon
• And something we didn’t mention in this recap but meant to, another meeting of the Bovestrians of Ragged Shaw! This amazing Muppets-esque video premiered during the Dangling Prussian Zoom on Jan. 12.

And if you’d like to listen to or read other recaps of the Weekend, we’ve got you covered!

• I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: Scott Monty and Burt Wolder did another Weekend recap!
• The Watsonian Weekly: There’s a good bit of overlap with the “lightning round” Brad Keefauver does with Madeline, but there’s also an interview with Rob Nunn and Peter Eckridge, whose new book, Canonical Cornerstones, premiered during the Weekend.
• A list of honors and investitures awarded over the course of the Weekend, compiled by Scott.
• The official BSI recap of the Weekend (including a link to download the Rosenblatt’s recap poem as a PDF).
• Rob Nunn’s recap on his blog Interesting Though Elementary.
• Rudy Altergott’s recap on his blog Erudite & Irregular (Rudy is one of the new BSI investees!).

Your hosts are Madeline Quiñones and Dixie Parkinson. Contact us at dynamicsofapodcast@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter @dynamicsofapod and on Facebook. Thanks for listening!