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For our final Pride Extravaganza interview of 2022, we talk to Carmen Maria Machado about her memoir In the Dream House, her short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, and her graphic novel that absolutely rules The Low, Low Woods! We discuss the relationship between reality and speculative fiction, how trauma and abuse form us and who we choose to be in the aftermath, and the nature of being queer creatives. Plus, writing in different genres! Shirley Jackson! Haunted houses! Oh my!Trigger warning: Discussions of intimate partner violence, abuse, sexual assault, and the aftermath of each throughout. Things get pretty heavy around 39:00.Learn more about It Came From the Closet.Follow Carmen Maria Machado at: @carmenmmachado on InstagramYou can follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram and Twitter @BitchesOnComics and you can follow our hosts: Sara Century: @saracentury (Instagram and Twitter), S.E. Fleenor: @se_fleenor (Instagram and Twitter), and Monika Estrella Negra: Instagram and Twitter. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.Support us by joining our Patreon Community.Keep in touch with us and see what we're up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.comBitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com
We're at the end of another month, and we're bringing back a familiar voice for this one. Rena Patel was on the show over a year ago to talk about JULIET by Anne Fortier, but now we're taking on something far darker and foreboding, the short story "Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado, part of her renowned collection HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES. This story is wild, y'all. Beautifully crafted, deeply unsettling, and somehow written before COVID. Yeah. We also chat about the differences between playwriting and prose writing, and there are some spoilers for the movie DON'T LOOK UP. Consider yourself warned. There are spoilers for this one! Read the short story here: https://lithub.com/inventory/ Follow the podcast on instagram and twitter: @yfbpodcast
Join us as we discuss the popular short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties. We cover childhood urban legends, Girl Scout camp trauma, the mundane plot lines of Law and Order: SVU and write a poem together based on Machado's work. Special thanks to guests Nick and Shane for coming to a queer, feminist horror book club meeting and knocking it out of the park.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.Jillian Bessett: The voice in the intro and outro belong to songwriter Jillian Bessett. Jillian Bessett is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose evocative lyrics and welcoming stage presence have endeared her to audiences throughout the southwest music scene. Jillian is currently writing music and gigging with her new favorite instrument the Boss RC-505 Looping Station.Mentioned in the Episode:Machado's essay in Guernica: "The Trash Heap Has Spoken"Keven Brockmeier's The Human Soul As A Rube Goldberg DeviceToni Morrison: "“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”Machado's essay on Medium ; "Gaslight Nation"Gaslight, 1944 film featuring Ingrid Bergman and Charles BoyerMachado's story "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU""Voices Carry" song and video by 'Til TuesdayThe Grand GuignolWriters:Yōko OgawaToni Morrison (The Pieces I Am, phenomenal documentary on her life now on Netflix)Karen RussellKelly LinkShirley JacksonPatricia HighsmithAngela Carter
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Sharifah and Jenn discuss the Hugo Award nominees, zombie raccoons, a new Arthurian adaptation, and more. This episode is sponsored by Shattered Roads by Alice Henderson and Libby. You can enter the mystery giveaway here. News The 2018 Hugo Nominees Neil Gaiman Is Bringing the Gormenghast Fantasy Series Back to Television Zombie raccoons?! Frank Miller taking on Arthurian legend in new illustrated YA novel and it already has a TV deal. Books Discussed Rebecca Roanhorse, "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" (Nebula nominee) Her Body And Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize) trigger warnings: violence against women including sexual assault “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Hugo/Nebula) “Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Hugo & Nebula) The Merry Spinster by (Daniel) Mallory Ortberg
David talks with Carmen Maria Machado about Shirley Jackson, horror movies, and her debut short story collection HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES which was National Book Award Finalist. Originally aired on February 15th 2018.
Topics: England, Manscape, Flooding, Dark Earth, White Sky, Ely, Oxford, Scampton, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, King Arthur, Density, Magical Realism, Poetry, Process, Short Story, Symbolism, Meaning, Waterland, Her Body And Other Parties, Language, Oedipus...
42 Minutes 293: Daisy Johnson - Fen - 11.13.2017 Today we take a tour of the fenlands of England with Daisy Johnson as our guide. She transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere from which grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention. Topics Include: England, Manscape, Flooding, Dark Earth, White Sky, Ely, Oxford, Scampton, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, King Arthur, Density, Magical Realism, Poetry, Process, Short Story, Symbolism, Meaning, Waterland, Her Body And Other Parties, Language, Oedipus, Twin Peaks. http://amzn.to/2zNerxa
Brad Listi talks with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the story collection HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, available now from Graywolf Press. It is a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her memoir "House in Indiana" is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press. Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, we check in with beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, whose new book of cartoons, GOING INTO TOWN, is a funny, and even practical, love letter to New York City. Carmen Maria Machado's entrance to the world of books may be the dramatic of the year: her debut short story collection, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, is a finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. We ask her about it all in this episode. And our editors pipe up with their thoughts about this week's bestsellers.
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, the dazzling debut by Carmen Maria Machado has garnered tremendous acclaim, including being named a finalist for the National Book Award. Carmen and James discuss never being done editing, her enviable file of images, and being thrown out of a plane. Plus, Editorial Director at Graywolf Press, Ethan Nosowsky. - Carmen Maria Machado: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ Carmen and James discuss: Ethan Nosowsky FIVE CHAPTERS GRAYWOLF PRESS THE NEW YORKER I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE by Jamie Quatro Kelly Link Kevin Brockmeier Shuchi Saraswat Kimberly Glyder Aimee Bender Karen Russell Laura van den Berg Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vander Meer SMALL BEER PRESS A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA Sofia Samatar THE WINGED HISTORIES by Sofia Samatar TENDER by Sofia Samatar Sam J. Miller Alyssa Wong Alice Kim TIN HOUSE McSWEENEY'S Yaddo WOODCUTTERS by Thomas Bernhard NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro Ted Chiang STRANGE HORIZONS THE AMERICAN READER - Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/ Ethan and James Discuss: National Book Award IndieNext Pick Page-Turner Blog Kent Wolf Graywolf Press McSweeney's FSG Oxford University Press Fiona McCrae (Graywolf) CLMP Jeff Seroy (FSG) Josh Glusman (Norton) Robert Giroux Alan Williams Stephen King Nadine Gordimer John Steinbeck MacMillan Publishing Bruce Machart Houghton-Mifflin David Vann TOMB SONG by Julian Herbert Christina MacSweeney Tracy K. Smith A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley THE CONVERT by Deborah Baker THE LAST ENGLISHMAN by Deborah Baker - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Dan talks to James about his remarkable new collections of plays, PLAYS ONE, and poetry, NEW LIFE, made even more remarkable by Dan's fight with colon cancer. The afternoon after a clean scan, he and James discuss the illness, young writers, and their shared affinity for not reading reviews. Then, Shuchi Saraswat talks about her excellent essay for Tin House and, as a book buyer for Brookline Booksmith, recommends her favorite summer reads and fall books to look forward to. - Dan O'Brien: http://www.danobrien.org/ Dan and James Discuss: ILLNESS AS METAPHOR by Susan Sontag Sewanee Writers' Conference Middlebury College THE VOYAGE OF THE CARCASS by Dan O'Brien (DO) THE DEAR BOY (DO) Andra Harbold Blake Montgomery School Jacques Lecoq Vassar College New York Stage and Film Williamstown Theatre Festival Brown University Jessica St. Clair Pauline Kael THE NEW YORKER INDIANA JONES THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (DO) ICE GHOSTS by Paul Watson Sam Shepard Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: National Playwrights Conference Patti Smith BREAD LOAF WRITERS' CONFERENCE Thomas Mallon Pinckney Benedict NEW LIFE: POEMS (DO) WAR REPORTER (DO) THE HOUSE IN HYDESVILLE (DO) THE CHERRY SISTERS REVISITED (DO) - Shuchi and James discuss: RUNNING IN THE FAMILY by Michael Ondaatje TIN HOUSE Emma Komlos-Hrobsky Teju Cole John Berger W.G. Sebald IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje DIVISADERO by Michael Ondaatje IN THE DISTANCE by Hernan Diaz MEEK'S CUTOFF dir by Kelly Reichardt THE CAT'S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje THE BURNING GIRL by Clare Messud SMALL TREASONS by Mark Powell THE MOUNTAIN by Paul Yoon HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado Kelly Link Aimee Bender Laura van den Berg Karen Russell AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES by Daniel Alarcon THE KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE by Daniel Alarcon FIVE-CARAT SOUL by James McBride THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride Jeffrey Eugenides Tom Hanks Steve Martin Junot Diaz Alice Munro Jim Shepard Brookline Booksmith NOBODY IS EVER MISSING by Catherine Lacey - ttp://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/