Podcast appearances and mentions of Meg Elison

This episode features "Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison (©2025 by Meg Ellison), and "Through the Machine" by P. A. Cornell (©2025 by P. A. Cornell) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[…] Après quinze jours de fun à ValTo avec des oligarques russes, la Salle 101 redescend sur terre en chroniquant des trucs vaguement apocalyptiques de nature à plomber ton moral, regarde : Foodistan, de Ketty Steward. Le livre de la sage-femme sans nom, de Meg Elison. Poisson Poison, de Ned Beauman. Ouais ouais. « Putain ça […]

This episode features "Autonomy" written by Meg Elison. Published in the January 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/elison_01_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "GaaS" by Meg Elison (© 2024 by Meg Elison), narrated by Alison Belle Bews and "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space" by Jon Lasser (© 2024 by Jon Lasser), narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This time around, I'm thrilled to welcome to the show Meg Elison! Meg reads to us from the start of their trunked novel, Hemet, which leads us into a wonderful conversation about a whole host of topics, including her own artist's statement on spooky stuff.

This time around, it's my delight to welcome back to the show Victor Manibo! After a bit of catching up, we get into Victor's new book, Escape Velocity, which releases later this month from Erewhon Books!   Things we mention in this episode:   The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo Victor's first episode “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher (show) Gravity (2013) Funeral and Neon Bible, by Arcade Fire COWBOY CARTER and RENAISSANCE, by Beyoncé Shōgun (TV series) based on the novel by James Clavell Game of Thrones Our Share of Nights, by Mariana Enriquez ICFA Victor's website, twitter, insta, tiktok, fb, and substack   Stick around next time when my guest will be Meg Elison!

2023 was great and terrible. There were technological marvels, horrible television, phenomenal movies, brilliant books, and more author drama than you ever thought possible. Come around the dumpster fire as Meg Elison and I build the year its funeral pyre.  Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod Buy me a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod

Precogs can predict crime, but did they anticipate the seminal science fiction novella would become a Steven Spielberg blockbuster? You'd need a specialist to pick apart the causality, and thankfully Meg Elison, a Philip K. Dick Award winning novelist, joins Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall to discuss The Minority Report, a 1956 novella, and Minority Report, the 2002 film. You can find the full issue of Fantastic Universe, where The Minority Report first appeared, here. Meg Elison is a Brooklyn author and essayist. Her debut novel, "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Her novelette, "The Pill" won the 2021 Locus Award. She is a Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards finalist. She has been an Otherwise Award honoree twice. Her YA debut, “Find Layla” was published in fall 2020 by Skyscape. It was named one of Vanity Fair's Best 15 Books of 2020. Her parasocial thriller, "Number One Fan" was published in August 2022 by Mira Books.  Order Maggie's newest book, The Siren, the Song, and the Spy If you like us, you'll also enjoy: Following the pod on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/failuretoadaptpodcast/ Following the pod on X: https://x.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

[…] déjà en maillot de bain, le corps luisant d’huile solaire, la Salle 101 expose ses chairs sans aucune vergogne après avoir envoyé Raoul au Goulag : Beau is Afraid, nouveau film d’Ari Aster. Three parts dead, roman vieux de Max Gladstone. La pilule, suivie de Big Girl, nouvelles vieilles de Meg Elison. Dingue, non […]

Losers' Club co-host Randall Colburn speaks to writer Meg Elison about her Fantasy Magazine article, All the King's Women: The Fats. It's a breezy and lighthearted chat that should prove enlightening to Constant Readers everywhere. It should be noted that this was originally recorded in January 2022 and is being unlocked from The Barrens. For more exclusive interviews like this that we haven't unlocked -- not to mention, over hundreds of hours of content --please join us at www.patreon.com/thebarrens. Otherwise, enjoy this conversation. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon | Store Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have some project you really want to do? Why you should put it in motion today! Also thoughts on worldbuilding in Fantasy, monetary systems, making mistakes and fixing them, and how pitching never gets easier.You can find all the FaRoFeb events here https://farofeb.com/events-and-giveaways/ and the giveaway I mention is here  https://kingsumo.com/g/pujmm3/farofeb-2023-week-one-giveawayPreorder ROGUE FAMILIAR here https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-familiarRUBY is out now! https://jeffekennedy.com/ruby FIVE GOLDEN RINGS is now available here: https://jeffekennedy.com/five-golden-rings SAPPHIRE is available here: https://jeffekennedy.com/sapphire and PLATINUM is available here https://jeffekennedy.com/platinum.THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR, a midwinter holiday fantasy romance in the Heirs of Magic series, now available!! https://jeffekennedy.com/the-long-night-of-the-radiant-starSHADOW WIZARD, Book One in Renegades of Magic, continuing the epic tale begun in DARK WIZARD. https://jeffekennedy.com/shadow-wizard is out now! Including in audiobook!Interested in Author Coaching from me? Information here: https://jeffekennedy.com/author-coachingROGUE'S PARADISE is out (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-paradise). Buy book 1, ROGUE'S PAWN, here! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-pawn) and book 2, ROGUE'S POSSESSION, here! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-possession).If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).You can watch this podcast on YouTube here https://youtu.be/MuowkqErQ2USign up for my newsletter here! (https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r2y4b9)Support the show

Retour du Binge Reading au salon Mi-Livre Mi-Raisin le samedi 10 décembre 2022 à la Bellevilloise à Paris ! Cette année, c'est le vigneron beaujolien David Large qui s'y colle, accompagné par Laurent Le Coustumer (qu'on connaît un peu chez RadioVino…) au clavier et machines. L'exercice n'a pas changé : lire d'une seule traite (ou presque) près de 30 extraits de livres, un par éditeur indépendant présent au salon. Défi relevé avec maestria par David, qui nous emmène dans une ba(l)lade entre textes drôles et extraits intenses pendant presque une heure. ++++++ Lecture : David Large Accompagnement : Laurent Le Coustumer Présentation : Antonin Iommi-Amunategui

Meg Elison (she/they), author extraordinaire and lover of fat fashion, is here to talk about her latest book Number One Fan (that Sophia read in 24 hours), what it's like to navigate the publishing industry as a fat person, and how fashion forms her rebellion against societal body standards. She also takes us back to her experience with her mom's bariatric surgery and how that radically realigned how she felt about her fat body as a young person.Meg Elison is a Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Slate, McSweeney's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley.You can connect with Meg on her website and Instagram. And here's her affiliate code for eShaktiSophia chose Pluto Shits on the Universe by Fatimah Asghar to compliment today's episode with Meg. And here's that link Sophia mentions to Fatimah at the slam poetry event.All things Fat Joy:-Instagram-Website-YouTube-TikTok-Facebook-PatreonIf you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player!And please consider becoming a Patreon supporter of the Fat Joy podcast. For as little as $2 per month, you'll be helping make all of our work possible and enable us to offer an honorarium to expert guests, which is key to centering marginalized voices.Deep thanks for their hard work go to Hi Bird Designs and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

WARNING: This podcast is a paid advertisement, for a book. The payment for the advertisement that this podcast is was the book that this podcast is advertising. So, it's not really “paid,” in the sense that the IRS should not worry about this. In this very special episode of Marooned on Mars, we discuss the recently released anthology Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, edited by Jonathan Strahan and published by MIT Press. We manage to touch on every story in the collection, at least in passing! And in this episode we try our best to minimize spoilers, considering the format of the texts we're reading and their recent publication. Featuring stories by Meg Elison, Tade Thompson, Daryl Gregory, Greg Egan, Sarah Gailey, Justina Robson, Chen Quifan, Malka Older, Saad Z. Hossain, and James Bradley, artwork by Sean Bodley, and an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Tomorrow's Parties touches on many themes that that should be familiar to our listeners: political economy and ecology, trying to make history while living with the legacies of the past, the weirdness of being burdened with a body, capitalism and wage labor. Described by Strahan in the introduction as neither hopepunk nor material for doomscrolling, the stories here are imaginative and engaging, and well worth checking out (if you're into that kind of thing). Next up we'll be doing a deep-ish dive into Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, published by Common Notions. There will be spoilers, so buy it and read it! (You won't be sorry!) Thanks for listening! Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marooned-on-mars/message

Here's the audio from this month's Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with Meg Elison & Clay McLeod Chapman, recorded live on October 12th, 2022, 7pm ET.​​ If you'd like to support our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, you... Continue Reading →

In this episode Meg and I had such an amazing conversation about writing that we completely forgot to talk about witchcraft!  You can find Meg Elison and all her writing (and you should read it all) at http://megelison.com/ You can support Stitch and Witch on Patreon at www.patreon.com/kraysaulis  or buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/stitchandwitch  Find my podcast, bujo printables, and more at www.stitchandwitch.com I'm on goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/katrinaraysaulis My tiktok is @kraysaulis   The intro and outro music in this video is by Trisha Morey who can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Sagatiaej    I receive snail mail at:  Katrina Ray-Saulis C/O AMU Art Made Underground LLC PO Box 5665 Augusta, ME 04330 

Telling some stories about WorldCon that illustrate the power and efficacy of networking - and how that's really making friends with people. While we never stop pitching, it does get easier and friendlier. Interested in Author Coaching from me? Information here: https://jeffekennedy.com/author-coachingPreorder SHADOW WIZARD, Book One in Renegades of Magic, continuing the epic tale begun in DARK WIZARD. https://jeffekennedy.com/shadow-wizardROGUE'S PARADISE is out today! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-paradise). Buy book 1, ROGUE'S PAWN, here! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-pawn) and book 2, ROGUE'S POSSESSION, here! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-possession).ORIA'S GAMBIT now available in audio on Scribd here! https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/571010481/Oria-s-Gambit LONEN'S WAR - now in audio! - is available wide. Buy links here https://jeffekennedy.com/lonen-s-war and in audio on Scribd here https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/558914129/Lonen-s-WarIf you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).You can watch this podcast on YouTube here https://youtu.be/bVBvCWBTLtkSign up for my newsletter here! (https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r2y4b9)Support the show

You might have at one time said something like “I think if we ever met, I'd be really good friends with Dolly Parton.” Or thought if Chris Evans happened to come into the cafe where you work, he'd definitely go out with me.  Have you ever heard of a parasocial relationship? The term was created in 1956 by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl to describe a unique one-sided relationship in which a member of an audience believes a person they see on tv or social media is their close personal friend. That they're in a relationship with that person. I'm not talking about imagining meeting a celebrity in real life and then striking up a genuine friendship like in my initial examples, but believing that right now - without ever having met - you are in an intimate relationship of some kind.  These days social media has made all of these lines even more blurred. A celebrity liking a tweet or a famous author answering your question. Television, social media, these have given us ways to carry celebrities around in our pockets, to give us a false sense of intimacy with people we've never met. When parasocial relationships stay in the realm of hypothetical, or perhaps even in something like passionate adoration, that's fine. That's not a crime. But some people take it too far. They believe celebrities, influencers, authors, actors owe them something. Parasocial relationships have a proven link to negative body image issues, increased aggression, and a whole host of problematic behaviors all stemming from this one-sided false intimacy.  If you're a creative person who puts their work out for public consumption, there's one additional layer to consider. Ownership. Creative people - writers, actors, painters, etc - aren't just known as themselves, but as their work, too. And, as a result of parasocial interactions and the general toxic discourse existing in various corners of the internet, there are those folks out in the world who feel a sense of ownership over that creative person's work and career. They feel personally invested in its trajectory, taking losses as personal, and oftentimes expressing that they are owed something for wins and successes.  Meg Elison is an author who knows this terrain all too well, and she wrote about it in her new book Number One Fan. It's a breakdown of how social media blurs barriers between creator and audience, emboldens parasocial interactions, and acts as a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever summoned up a stranger by pressing a few buttons on their phone and then gotten into their car. While the story itself is fiction, the events inside it can be seen paralleled in news headlines on a weekly basis. Since recording this interview I can think of at least 3 times when I read or heard a story that shared shocking similarity to the plot being relayed by young women simply existing out in the world. This is a conversation about one-sided relationships, the specter of Stephen King, book consumption culture, niche internet communities, and who owns a creator's work once it is out in the world.  Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod

Guest: Meg Elison Ask Your Auntie: Tri tip, chili recipes Episode: Meg Elison, author of The Road to Nowhere series and recent Nebula winner for "The Pill", joins Auntie Vice to talk all things fat chicks. - Growing up queer and fat. - Writing futurism and sci-fi with queer and trans characters - Best Lesbian Erotica v. 6 - Needing more sex in adult novels - Dating as a bisexual and... an amazing list of suggested reading!!!   If you are looking to subscribe to this month's advertiser, Newsly.ca, use the discount code FC0T for a free month of premium services!   Books Mentioned in This Episode Sabrina Springs. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Boston Women's Health Collective and Judy Norsigan. Our Bodies, Ourselves Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat Siri Walker, Dietland Julie Murphy , Dumplin' Julie Murphy, If the Shoe Fits Kate Staymen-London, The One to Watch Peter Benchly, Jaws Sinclair Sexsmith, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica, volume 6 Meg Elison, The Unnamed Midwife Meg Elison, The Book of Etta Meg Elison, Book of Flora Meg Elison, “The Pill” in Big Girl Collette, The Collective Stories of Collette Pat Califia, Macho Sluts Melinda Lao, Last Night at the Telegraph Club Gretchen Felker-Martin Manhunter

[NOTE: this episode has some NSFW language] Open Welcome back from the wilderness, Matt F'n Wallace! Scrivener will indeed tell you how many words you wrote in a year Mur is making progress on Midsolar Murders Book 2 Matt is working on a video game he can't talk about yet, and we await Savage Crowns Good News Good News Hugo nominations are open for 2022 Team Rejection count: now at 14 Main Topic: Matt's New Middle Grade Book This is the book Matt always wanted as a kid, so now he's written it for himself & everyone else Using the word “fat” and all the baggage different people bring to it Relating to Vincent D'Onofrio and Sammo Hung in their acting and action roles How to approach writing fat characters: Writing the Other (written by Hugo-nominated author Meg Elison. You really should read her award nominated novella "The Pill.") Matt's page, and the Fat Kid Guide page January 27, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 8 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

Smack and Gabi compete to find out who read the best combination of books for the Mysterious Galaxy Summer Bingo by having random PvP fights between their books. Books pitted against each other in this episode (part one of two) include: The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett v. Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara v. Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O'Neal The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison v. Legendary Cracow by Ewa Basiura Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden v. Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen v. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin v. The Night of the Dragon by Julie Kagawa Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor v. The Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo Shuri: The Search for Black Panther by Nnedi Okorafor v. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Gods and Monsters by Shelby Mahurin v. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi The Resurrectionist of Caligo by Alicia Zaloga and Wendy Trimboli v. The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison v. Shuri: The Search for Black Panther by Nnedi Okorafor The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi translated by Cathy Hirano v. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Continuation of a fascinating conversation with writer Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife and many more. Music at the end from Sunflower Bean with Baby Don't Cry.

Meg Elison is an award winning and very prolific and talented writer, and thanks to Jeanne Hospod, she was nice enough to drop by and chat about her life, her process, goals, and so much more. Music at the end from Maita with Pastel Concrete.

Psychological thriller author Sara Foster's new book The Hush is a near-future thriller which has been described as 'smart and considered, the book I wish I had written' by best selling crime author Dervla McTiernan. It's an unflinching look at a society close to tipping point. A story for our times and one that is very reminiscent of what we're actually living throughout at the moment in this pandemic. The Hush highlights the power of female friendships - something Sara is passionate about - through a dynamic group of women, determined to triumph against the odds. And it's the result of five years of research into dystopian fiction which will soon earn Sara her PhD. Grab a cuppa and join Sara and Pam on The Convo Couch as they chat about The Hush and what's at the heart of Sara's writing.   SHOW NOTES: Writes4Women www.writes4women.com Facebook @writes4women Twitter / Instagram @w4wpodcast   W4W Patreon https://www.writes4women.com/support-us-on-patreon   Sara Foster Website: click here Instagram: click here Twitter: click here Buy The Hush here The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison buy here     Pamela Cook www.pamelacook.com.au Facebook: click here Twitter: click here  Instagram: click here   This episode produced by  Pamela Cook for Writes4Women.           Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/writes4women?fan_landing=true See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey, It's an ugly word for a beautiful thing, so get back in there! Award winning science fiction essayist Meg Elison weaves a hypnotic true tale that takes us from Musicology to Entomology to Homology to Sexology, with a splash of playing doctor for good measure. Recorded live at the Courtyard Cabaret in San Francisco, this was Meg's first time on the Bawdy stage - but it won't be her last!  #LifeSciences #Inorganic #Epidermis #Scientist   Song: ‘Tattoo' (Girlfriends)   Episode Links Helix: Ready for better sleep? Helix Sleep has a quiz that takes just two minutes to complete and matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. Helix was awarded the #1 best overall mattress pick of 2020 and by GQ and Wired Magazine. 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The Locus Award Winning, Perfect and Prolific Author & Essayist Meg Elison (Find Layla, Big Girl, The Book of The Unnamed Midwife, etc…) agreed to join Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott to discuss absolutely any adaptation, as long as it was the Thomas Harris novel The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and the Jonathan Demme film, The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Keep up with Meg on twitter at @megelison and her website megelison.com Some resources related to the transphobia in film and in The Silence of The Lambs in particular: The Jo Moses's essay Should we still be protesting “The Silence of the Lambs?” Jos Truitt's essay My Auntie Buffalo Bill: The Unavoidable Transmisogyny of Silence of the Lambs ContraPoints's video J.K. Rowling Laverne Cox's documentary Disclosure At one point, Meg & Maggie spontaneously burst into Marcia Belsky's 100 Tampons If you like us, you'll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

David and Perry discuss the nominees in the Novelette category for this year's Hugo Awards, and go on to talk about their other recent reading. Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (03:15) Davitt Award shortlist (02:58) Hugo Award Novelette Nominees (36:18) The Pill by Meg Elison (05:03) Helicopter Story by Isabell Fall (06:43) Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super by A. T. Greenblatt (03:10) The Inaccessibility of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard (05:56) Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker (08:29) Monster by Naomi Kritzer (06:03) What we've been reading (30:33) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (07:23) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (07:48) Foundation by Isaac Asimov (07:20) The End of the Day by Claire North (07:16) Windup (01:00) Photo by SHVETS production from Pexels.

David and Perry discuss the nominees in the Novelette category for this year's Hugo Awards, and go on to talk about their other recent reading. Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (03:15) Davitt Award shortlist (02:58) Hugo Award Novelette Nominees (36:18) The Pill by Meg Elison (05:03) Helicopter Story by Isabell Fall (06:43) Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super by A. T. Greenblatt (03:10) The Inaccessibility of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard (05:56) Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker (08:29) Monster by Naomi Kritzer (06:03) What we've been reading (30:33) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (07:23) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (07:48) Foundation by Isaac Asimov (07:20) The End of the Day by Claire North (07:16) Windup (01:00) Click here for more info and indexes. Photo by SHVETS production from Pexels.

Are you afraid to ask for what you want? When award-winning storyteller Jannelle Codianni ends her 10-year marriage, she realizes that the fear, abuse and rejection mean that now she's sexually broken. Unable to voice her own desires and not ready for love or commitment, she hires a ‘spotter' in the form of Marty, one of the only sexological bodyworkers in puritan New England. Can receiving pleasure be silly and playful? More importantly, will these expensive training sessions ever change from awkward to orgasmic? #Invocation #KnowYourDesire #JerkoffSchool #WhatIsThisFeeling   Song: ‘Good Thing' (Zedd, featuring Kehlani)   Episode Links BAD NEWS: we've lost our Summertime pop-up venue, so this Saturday's Live show will be our last for a while (the first one sold out, let's make that happen again this Saturday!) This time, we're Nerding out with true stories from Meg Elison, Sejay, Alotta Boutté Reid Mihalko and music by Rachel Lark. Get your tickets now for ‘Science Friction' on Saturday July 17th, 2021. Not in San Francisco? This is a Hybrid show, so you can join us on the Livestream. Be sure to RSVP and share it with friends! Tickets (for Front Row Tables, Reserved Seating, General Admission, Livestream tickets & more) are at http://bit.ly/BawdyJulyOutdoorSF On Facebook: https://fb.me/e/ULb82P94 On Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/1007389   Feeld: Download the Feeld app for free AND support the Bawdy Storytelling podcast by using this link: feeld.co/bawdy  Are you single and searching for a dating app that actually encourages you to embrace your sexual side? Are you in a couple and looking to find that third? Then, you need to check out Feeld. Feeld is the alternative dating app for couples & singles.  The app is inclusive to all, no matter your gender or orientation. When you join, you can choose to identify as over 20+ genders and sexualities. The New York Times wrote that Feeld's options “put the Kinsey scale to shame.” Use our code/link to let them know you heard about em on the Bawdy podcast, & I'll see you on Feeld!   Uberlube: Your body benefits from Lube - and Uberlube is the best! Uberlube offers you the clean, natural, long-lasting performance you want, then quickly dissipates without leaving a sticky residue. Right now, They're offering Bawdy Storytelling listeners a special offer: 10% off and FREE shipping, when you use the code Dixie at uberlube.com  #SupportOurSponsors #LubeRocks   Patreon: You can get free livestream tickets, get access to all the livestream replays, be connected to other Bawdy fans, join the #Buttplug Club and so much more. Sign up for The Hookup ($10/month) or higher cause members receive free tickets to special events, Free tickets to our Livestream shows, access to the livestream replay, ad-free episodes of the podcast & more. Our Patreon has new patron tiers like the Confidante, the Concierge & more. Our Patrons have kept Bawdy going during COVID and as we struggle with re-entry, we're saying Thank you to all of you with Insider Info and exclusive access. While other events have gone away, Patreon (and you) are allowing us to continue to produce the Bawdy podcast, livestreams and live shows. We're offering great rewards when you become a member of our Patreon, so become a Member Now at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy   Support Bawdy by sending your one-time donation to: Venmo: Venmo.com/BawdyStorytelling Paypal: BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com Zelle: BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com (& Thank You in advance!) Cameo/Custom Dixie video: Need the perfect gift? I've been having so much fun making customized videos for your! Send your friends and lovers a custom ‘Cameo' video from Dixie (with or without applause tiddies), it's a great way to send love from far away to a Bawdy fan… For just $69, you and I can have a short zoom call, you can tell me all about the recipient, and I'll make a custom video from you for their special day. Find out more by emailing dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com #CustomVideo #Gift   Bawdy Got Me Laid: Bawdy Storytelling offers its own line of fragrance & lube for your favorite podcast or scent fan! You'll love #BawdyGotMeLaid perfume, scented with golden honey, amber, ylang ylang and warm vanilla. There's also (scented or unscented) creamy Bawdy Butter, Hair & Bawdy Oil, lube & more. Bawdy Merchandise means you smell great while supporting a podcast that you love. Get yours today at https://bawdystorytelling.com/merchandise   Ready to tell your story, and change your life? I'm offering Storytelling for Self-Discovery. Anxious about navigating what's next? Are you writing a book, or working on your Business' brand storytelling?  No matter what you're up against, I can help you communicate with calmness & clarity - and I'd love to help you find your story. Email me at dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com for more info - we can book a short discovery call, I'm happy to answer any questions.   Check out our Bawdy Storytelling Fiends and Fans group on Facebook - it's a place to discuss the podcast's stories with the storytellers, share thoughts with your fellow listeners, & help Dixie make the podcast even better. Just answer 3 simple questions and you're IN! https://www.facebook.com/groups/360169851578316/ Subscribe to our email list & you'll be notified of all upcoming Livestreams, Podcasts and Special Events first - it's at  https://bawdystorytelling.com/subscribe   Thank you to the Team that makes this podcast possible   Team Bawdy is: Podcast Producer & Livestream Technical Director: Marty Garcia and Bearded Scotsman Audio Sound Engineer: David Grosof Archivist / Video: Joe Moore Bawdy Livestream pre-show video by Donal Mooney Storytelling support by Mosa Maxwell-Smith Livestreaming by Rubeun Tan Web Streaming & Bawdy Creator & Podcast Host Dixie De La Tour & Thank you to Pleasure Podcasts. Bawdy Storytelling is proud to be part of your sex-positive podcast collective! 

Can you feel the cold, wet squeak? When Girly Juice blogger, Dildorks podcaster, and kink author Kate Sloan sparks the attention of the gorgeous Matthew on Twitter, she can barely make eye contact with them. Soon this gorgeous suitor inundates our favorite bisexual submissive with gifts, long distance flights, spot-on role-play & ego-bolstering rope scenes - yet somehow, Matthew's exquisite spankings leave her self-conscious and paranoid, rather than euphoric. This Secret Sex Spy seems a bit too ideally perverted and weird for her; what if it's a trick? Or worse yet, what if it's not? #Espionage #GoodGirl #Suspicious#OutOfMyLeague   Song: ‘Spy in the House of Love' (Was/Not Was)   Episode Links Live Shows are Back! This month, we're Nerding out with ‘Science Friction' featuring Meg Elison, Sejay, Alotta Boutté Reid Mihalko and music by Rachel Lark. We only have this gorgeous Federal Building Courtyard for two more dates, and our last show sold out so get your tickets now for Bawdy Storytelling on Saturday July 17th, 2021 ..this live show is happening in San Francisco… not in San Francisco? This is a Hybrid show, so you can buy a ticket for the Livestream to join us. Be sure to RSVP and share it with friends! Tickets (for Front Row Tables, Reserved Seating, General Admission, Livestream tickets & more) are at http://bit.ly/BawdyJulyOutdoorSF On Facebook: https://fb.me/e/ULb82P94 On Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/1007389   Dipsea: Dipsea is an audio app full of short, sexy stories designed to turn you on. Whether you want a story to turn you on or to wind you down for better sleep, Dipsea has wellness sessions, bedtime stories and soundscapes to help you relax. Dipsea helps you get in touch with yourself for some extra sweet dreams.  And for listeners of the Bawdy Storytelling podcast, Dipsea is offering a 30 day free trial when you go to https://www.dipseastories.com/ and use the promo code DIXIE.  Dipsea release new stories every week, so there's always more to explore - no matter who you're into or what turns you on.  Download the app right now, and get a 30 day free trial when you go to https://www.dipseastories.com/Dixie   Patreon: You can get free tickets to the livestream of our LIVE show, get access to all the livestream replays, be connected to other Bawdy fans, join the #Buttplug Club and so much more. Our Hookup ($10/month) & up supporters receive free tickets to special events, Free tickets to our Livestream shows, access to the livestream replay, ad-free episodes of the podcast & more. Our Patreon has new patron tiers like the Confidante, the Concierge & more. Our Patrons have kept Bawdy going during COVID and as we struggle with re-entry, we're saying Thank you to all of you with Insider Info and exclusive access. While other events have gone away, Patreon (and you) are allowing us to continue to produce the Bawdy podcast, livestreams and live shows. We're offering great rewards when you become a member of our Patreon, so become a Member Now at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy   Support Bawdy by sending your one-time donation to: Venmo: Venmo.com/BawdyStorytelling Paypal: BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com Zelle: BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com (& Thank You in advance!) Cameo/Custom Dixie video: Need the perfect gift? I've been having so much fun making customized videos for fans of Bawdy. Send your friends and lovers a custom ‘Cameo' video from Dixie (with or without applause tiddies), it's a great way to send love for a quarantine birthday, for Mother's Day… For $69, you and I can have a short zoom call to tell me all about the recipient, and I'll make you a custom video for their special day. Find out more by emailing dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com #CustomVideo #Gift   Bawdy Got Me Laid: Bawdy Storytelling offers its own line of fragrance & lube for your favorite podcast or scent fan! You'll love #BawdyGotMeLaid perfume, scented with golden honey, amber, ylang ylang and warm vanilla. There's also (scented or unscented) creamy Bawdy Butter, Hair & Bawdy Oil, lube & more. Bawdy Merchandise means you smell great while supporting a podcast that you love. Get yours today at https://bawdystorytelling.com/merchandise   Ready to tell your story, and change your life? I'm offering Storytelling for Self-Discovery. Anxious about navigating what's next? Are you writing a book, or working on your Business' brand storytelling?  No matter what you're up against, I can help you communicate with calmness & clarity - and I'd love to help you find your story. Email me at dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com for more info - we can book a short discovery call, I'm happy to answer any questions.   Check out our Bawdy Storytelling Fiends and Fans group on Facebook - it's a place to discuss the podcast's stories with the storytellers, share thoughts with your fellow listeners, & help Dixie make the podcast even better. Just answer 3 simple questions and you're IN! https://www.facebook.com/groups/360169851578316/ Subscribe to our email list & you'll be notified of all upcoming Livestreams, Podcasts and Special Events first - it's at  https://bawdystorytelling.com/subscribe   Thank you to the Team that makes this podcast possible   Team Bawdy is: Podcast Producer & Livestream Technical Director: Marty Garcia and Bearded Scotsman Audio Sound Engineer: David Grosof Archivist / Video: Joe Moore Bawdy Livestream pre-show video by Donal Mooney Storytelling support by Mosa Maxwell-Smith Livestreaming by Rubeun Tan Web Streaming & Bawdy Creator & Podcast Host Dixie De La Tour & Thank you to Pleasure Podcasts. Bawdy Storytelling is proud to be part of your sex-positive podcast collective! 

Interview with Meg Elison! New website! Harrison's hurt again. Blow up over Boba Fett's ship. Bill Lawhorn replaced by Mary Robinette Kowal. New book by LeVar Burton. Ray Bradbury exhibit in Chicago. Locus Awards! Mur Lafferty gets poured a cold one. And.... another song parody.

Share sushi with Philip K. Dick Award-winning writer Meg Elison as we discuss her pre-pandemic prediction for the kind of year 2020 was then shaping up to be, how reading Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat" changed her life, using tabletop RPGs to deal with the powerlessness felt during recent times, the way rereading taught her to be a writer, our dual fascination with diaries, when she realized her first novel was actually the start of a trilogy (and the songs which helped her better understand each installment), why she followed that post-apocalyptic trilogy with a contemporary YA novel, and much more.

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and Outward podcast co-host Christina Cauterucci talks to Robin Marty about the Supreme Court’s plans with Roe v. Wade, and what women can do to prepare for the worst.  Robin Marty is the author of The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America. She’s also the communications director of the West Alabama Women’s Center and the Yellowhammer Fund, which provides funding and logistical support to women in need of abortions. They discuss what abortion access might look like if the justices further erode Roe. They also talk about why Robin once said she was ready for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, and why national exhaustion has caused her to change her mind. In the second half of the show, it’s all about survival. Christina and Robin focus on the ways women will (hopefully) still be able to get access to reproductive health care, why self-managed abortions could become crucial, how privacy will take on increasing importance, and how people can help. Plus, they’ll tell you how you should decide when it’s time to “break some laws and do some bad stuff.” Recommendations: Christina recommends Tevas, specifically the Hurricane Drift sandals. “It literally feels like you’re wearing clouds on your feet.” Robin recommends Meg Elison’s “The Road to Nowhere” series, which starts with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, then The Book of Etta, and finally the The Book of Flora. The books focus on a post-apocalyptic landscape after a fever has swept the earth, killing women and children and making childbirth very dangerous. In the series, women try to survive while helping others prevent pregnancies and births. Robin calls it a “breathtaking series that I absolutely love.” Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.  Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and Outward podcast co-host Christina Cauterucci talks to Robin Marty about the Supreme Court’s plans with Roe v. Wade, and what women can do to prepare for the worst.  Robin Marty is the author of The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America. She’s also the communications director of the West Alabama Women’s Center and the Yellowhammer Fund, which provides funding and logistical support to women in need of abortions. They discuss what abortion access might look like if the justices further erode Roe. They also talk about why Robin once said she was ready for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, and why national exhaustion has caused her to change her mind. In the second half of the show, it’s all about survival. Christina and Robin focus on the ways women will (hopefully) still be able to get access to reproductive health care, why self-managed abortions could become crucial, how privacy will take on increasing importance, and how people can help. Plus, they’ll tell you how you should decide when it’s time to “break some laws and do some bad stuff.” Recommendations: Christina recommends Tevas, specifically the Hurricane Drift sandals. “It literally feels like you’re wearing clouds on your feet.” Robin recommends Meg Elison’s “The Road to Nowhere” series, which starts with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, then The Book of Etta, and finally the The Book of Flora. The books focus on a post-apocalyptic landscape after a fever has swept the earth, killing women and children and making childbirth very dangerous. In the series, women try to survive while helping others prevent pregnancies and births. Robin calls it a “breathtaking series that I absolutely love.” Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.  Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Astrology Witch Podcast, I had a fun chat with my friend, the incredible & beloved author, Meg Elison! We discussed her amazing work as a writer, indicators in her natal chart which other writers may also have, astrology, witchcraft, and more! Enjoying the podcast? Sign up for emails so you get alerts every time a new episode is released PLUS get a FREE Astrology Cheat Sheet when you sign up: https://skilled-pioneer-3572.ck.page/9c5b93f848 Follow, Support + Read Meg's Books: http://megelison.com/ https://www.instagram.com/meghanelison/ https://twitter.com/megelison https://www.patreon.com/melison Follow Astrology Witch Podcast on IG: https://www.instagram.com/astrologywitchpodcast/ Follow Astrology Witch Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroWPodcast Follow Astrology Witch Podcast on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AstrologyWitchPodcast Support AWP on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/astrologywitchpodcast Episode Artwork done by @LucidKitsch on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lucidkitsch/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/astrologywitchpodcast/support

Jessica Liese and Rob Cesternino had a few administrative meetings, formed a committee, and got the power back on just in time to bring you coverage of "The Stand," episode 4, with special guest, Meg Elison! The post The Stand | Episode 4: “The House of the Dead” appeared first on PostShowRecaps.com.

Science fiction and fantasy are full of bodies that just won't behave. Either they're overpowered, or they're trying to consume everything in the world. We talk about why some bodies are so problematic in science fiction. Plus we talk to Meg Elison, author of the new novel Find Layla, about fatphobia and fat-fetishism.

Oakland-based author Meg Elison reads from her book "Find Layla." It's about a girl named Layla who is having a hard time growing up.

Scoobies Ian Carlos Crawford, Kiersten White, Alastair Patton, and Meg Elison come together to discuss the first episode of Firefly, "Serenity." The rest of the Firefly episodes will be found on our patreon.    Like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and support us on patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)! 

We sit down with author Meg Elison to discuss her most recent work, a YA novel called Find Layla, in which our protagonist, Layla, puts a video on social media that goes viral and dismantles her life as she knows it. We also discuss the poverty cycle, when caretakers fail, bullying, and Meg gives some great writing tips. @MegElison @ComicsBookClub

Writer Michelle Tea, writer Meg Elison, and composer Lawrence English join us for a trio of COVID-19-era conversations. We ask them each, “Is this how you thought it would all end?” All three guests have great perspectives on the apocalyptic vibrations affecting us all, but are any of us truly ready for the end?

Hosts Ian Carlos Crawford and Adam Sass are joined by Alex Abad-Santos, Meg Elison, and Aaron Reese to discuss their X-Men MCU wishlist.   Like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and support us on patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)! 

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Piranesi, Watch Over Me, Legendborn, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Ritual, and Find Layla by Meg Elison. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour Legendborn by Tracy Deonn  Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) by Kelly Yang  Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World’s Most Infamous Items by J. W. Ocker Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson WHAT WE’RE READING: Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America by iO Tillett Wright The City of Palaces by Michael Nava Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera The Future of Science is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century by Zara Stone Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis  Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy by Joanna Ebenstein  Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre  Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas by Glenn Kenny Black Heroes of the Wild West: Featuring Stagecoach Mary, Bass Reeves, and Bob Lemmons: A TOON Graphic by James Otis Smith and Kadir Nelson The Spymasters: How the CIA’s Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son by Michael Ian Black The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow by Deborah Tannen  Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life by Cait Flanders  The Glass House: A Novel by Beatrice Colin Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters How to Astronaut: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth by Terry Virts  Dick Gregory's Political Primer by Dick Gregory and James R. McGraw We Need To Talk: A Memoir About Wealth by Jennifer Risher Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger 1) by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Identity, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo  Lionheart (Richard the Lionheart) by Ben Kane Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike America: An Anthology of France and the United States by François Busnel The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester The White Coat Diaries by Madi Sinha The Roommate by Rosie Danan  You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton by George Singleton Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America by Elliott Currie Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution by Mark Eisner (Editor), Tina Escaja (Editor) My Life in 100 Objects by Margaret Randall Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman  Post-Apocalypto by Tenacious D, Jack Black, Kyle Gass  City of Sparrows by Eva Nour Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke Straight from the Horse’s Mouth by Meryem Alaoui, Emma Ramadan (translator) Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump (translator) The Orphan of Cemetery Hill: A Novel by Hester Fox The Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar These Violent Delights: A Novel by Micah Nemerever Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith  Aseroë by François Dominique, Richard Sieburth and Howard Limoli (translators) Like a Bird by Fariha Róisín The Distance by Ivan Vladislavic Mirror Thinking: How Role Models Make Us Human by Fiona Murden Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays by Robert Michael Pyle The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis    It’s My Party and I Don’t Want to Go by Amanda Panitch To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini  Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker Aquatlantic by Giorgio Carpinteri The True Definition of Neva Beane by Christine Kendall Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus) by Rania Abouzeid Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett  Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things by Jeremy England Horrid by Katrina Leno A Kingdom of Tender Colors by Seth Greenland The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Karina Yan Glaser Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro The Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez    The Trials of Koli (The Rampart Trilogy (2)) by M. R. Carey High as the Waters Rise: A Novel by Anja Kampmann, Anne Posten (translator) An Unnatural Life by Erin K. Wagner See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Our Life In Books where we talk about our lives, books and everything in between! This week we’re chatting about all of the September releases we can’t wait to read. So get your TBRs ready, because if we have anything to say about it, you’ll be adding lots of books! Grab your favorite cup of tea and join us!   Our Life in Books Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/ourlifeinbooks Our Life In Books Tea- https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/list.html?userId=696813O Our Life In Books Society- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety   Follow Our Life In Books- https://linktr.ee/ourlifeinbooks_ Follow Elizabeth- https://linktr.ee/bookishconnoisseur Follow Samantha- https://linktr.ee/samanthamccombs   Autumn Mist Green Tea- https://www.adagio.com/green/autumn_mist_green.html  The Ravenboys by Maggie Stiefvater- https://amzn.to/32tSHs1  When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole- https://amzn.to/32pDQ1u  These Vengeful Hearts by Katherine Laurin- https://amzn.to/33sMkEj  Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson- https://amzn.to/3md6vPr  Out of Line: Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FQKLCPP?ref=kc_AOSOutofLine&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_i=bookshelf_primeStandard&pf_rd_p=22b7d731-e322-42ca-ba17-a93968b01f41&pf_rd_t=5601&pf_rd_r=K5RV8PV1DCW38A8QNMSP&pf_rd_s=slot-0   Consensual Hex Controversy- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49750474-consensual-hex  Becky Albertalli-  https://medium.com/@rebecca.albertalli/i-know-im-late-9b31de339c62  Liberation Station- https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/09/03/their-son-wanted-books-whose-characters-looked-like-him-so-they-created-book-business-do-just-that/  Riveted Lit September Free Reads- http://rivetedlit.com/free-reads/  The Soul Book Nook in Waterloo- https://www.thesoulbooknookllc.com/home  Tumas Books and Things- https://tumasbooksandthings.com/collections/tumas-book-of-the-month  The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed- https://amzn.to/3kcFkCq  The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes- https://amzn.to/3iz56AA  Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas- https://amzn.to/2FumJTk  Legendborn by Tracy Deonn- https://amzn.to/35z9RpS  The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry- https://amzn.to/2FApZwk  The Other Girl by C.D. Major- https://amzn.to/35Ebl2p  Horrid by Katrina Leno- https://amzn.to/3iwa6pi  Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp- https://amzn.to/3hvUzEG  Vampires Never Get Old edited by Zoraida Cordova & Natalie C. Parker- https://amzn.to/3hzxFws   Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson- https://amzn.to/3mhwKUT  Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds- https://amzn.to/3bTHJyW  Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi- https://amzn.to/2FrOrQP  Gold Wings Rising by Alex London- https://amzn.to/2DX3zVI  All This Time by Mikki Daughery and Rachael Lippincott- https://amzn.to/2Zy1Pdh  Breathless by Jennifer Niven- https://amzn.to/32pdrRv  A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik- https://amzn.to/32rtyy0  Dear Justyce by Nic Stone- https://amzn.to/3mhx1an  Recommended For You by Laura Silverman- https://amzn.to/2Fz4zjr  Flamer by MIke Curato- https://amzn.to/3bVWwJF  The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi- https://amzn.to/3irs64o  Crush by Tracy Wolff- https://amzn.to/3hxk74d  A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore- https://amzn.to/32r7OCd  Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour- https://amzn.to/3khG0X0  Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin- https://amzn.to/2FvoGz0  Find Layla by Meg Elison- https://amzn.to/3kersYh  Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia- https://amzn.to/3mg6vhr  Follow Me Darkly by Helen Hardt- https://amzn.to/3iu4trI  Fable by Adrienne Young- https://amzn.to/3kfyPPa   Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo- https://amzn.to/2RrEzJa  As the Shadow Rises by Katy Rose Pool- https://amzn.to/3hsZWVp  Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer- https://amzn.to/33tzHsT  Nine by Rachelle Dekker- https://amzn.to/3iz6NxW  Shine by Jessica Jung- https://amzn.to/3kcOQ8E  The Lost Book of White by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu- https://amzn.to/2GR5Se0  The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner- https://amzn.to/2FBMCQZ  When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer- https://amzn.to/3bSxP0C  For Better or Cursed by Kate Williams- https://amzn.to/3issT59  #NoEscape by Gretchen McNeil- https://amzn.to/2FDs0I7

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Roger Kahn, who died on February 6, 2020 at the age of 92, was one of the icons in the world of baseball writing. His classic “The Boys of Summer,” about his relationship with his father and their united love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is one of the greatest baseball books of all time. He started his career in journalism in 1948 as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune and within four years was covering the Dodgers for that newspaper. He moved over to Newsweek in 1956 and the Saturday Evening Post in 1963 as he revved up his career writing both fiction and non-fiction books, mostly but not exclusively about baseball, and the ups and downs of his own life. On October 13, 1993, Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky sat down for an extended interview with Roger Kahn about his book, “The Era: 1947-1957, when the Yankees, the Giants and the Dodgers Ruled the World. “ It turned out he was a marvelous raconteur, as well as a keen historian of racism in the sport. In fact, his final book, published in 2014, was titled “Rickey and Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball.”  (Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson). Dick Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky would interview Roger Kahn once more, in 1998, but that interview focused not on baseball but on a biography of boxer Jack Dempsey. After this interview, Roger Kahn would go on to write six more books, including not only the history of the early days of integration, and the biography of Dempsey, but a memoir of the people he met, a book about the view from the pitching mound, and a history of the New York Yankees improbable run for the pennant in 1978. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in 2020 by Richard Wolinsky. This interview has not aired since its original broadcast. This program was uploaded before the cancellation of several major league games protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in August, 2020 by Richard Wolinsky. This interview has not been aired since its original broadcast. Complete 68-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.   Announcement Links Book Passage. Conversations with Authors features Ursula Hegi on Saturday August 29, Pramala Jayapal and Sunday August 30, both at 4 pm Pacific time. The Booksmith presents Vanessa Veselka in conversation with Emma Donoghue tonight at 7 pm, at Sara Jaquette Ray on Monday August 31 at 7 pm, and the book launch for Meg Elison's new novel Find Layla on Tuesday September 1 at 7 pm. Kepler's Books presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks. Registration required. Bay Area Book Festival features Michael Pollan and Merlin Sheldrake on Entangled Life and the world of Fungi, which first aired on Wednesday August 26. Theatre Rhino Live Thursday performance conceived and performed by John Fisher on Facebook Live and Zoom at 8 pm Thursday August 27 is Saint John Fisher. San Francisco Playhouse fireside chat Thursday August 27 at 7 pm is Betty Shameih with Bill English. No Zoomlet play this coming Monday. American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) begins a series of live then streamed ticketed productions, titled InterAct, starting on September 4 with In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar. Tickets on sale on the website. 42nd Street Moon. 8 pm Tuesdays: Tuesday Talks Over the Moon. Fridays at 8 pm: Full Moon Fridays Cabaret. Sundays at 8 pm: Quiz Me Kate: Musical Theatre Trivia. Shotgun Players.  Live streamed Digital Brain with Josh Kornbluth begins October 16, 2020. Tickets on sale on the website. Berkeley Rep. Another live performance by Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone, airs on Sunday September 13 at 5 pm. Tickets on sale on the website. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Another live performance by Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone, airs on Sunday September 13 at 5 pm. Tickets on sale on the website. TheatreWorks' production of the musical Pride and Prejudice is now streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription. California Shakepeare Theatre (Cal Shakes) has various offerings on its You Tube channel. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts new on-line programming series featuring classes, concerts, poetry sessions and more.. Aurora Theatre. A new ticketed audio drama, The Flats, written by Lauren Gunderson, Cleaven Smith and Jonathan Spector, with Lauren English, Anthony Fusco and Khary L. Moye, directed by Josh Costello, will stream this fall, date to be announced. Marin Theatre Company Aldo Billingslea performs Three Story Walk Up by Gamel Abdel Chasen as part of the Breath Project, streaming on the site. Lauren Gunderson's play Natural Shocks streams through Soundcloud on the website. Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents the play Ten Out of Twelve by Anne Washburn Monday August 31 at 7 pm on Zoom. SFBATCO presents a series titled Hella Theatre with Peter J. Kuo of ACT tonight at 6 pm. It's a weekly show and this is episode three, Directing in Color. Central Works The Script Club, where you read the script of a new play and send comments to the playwright. September script has not yet been announced. Lincoln Center Live Through September 8, 2020: Carousel, with Kelli O'Hara & Nathan Gunn. Public Theatre: The Line streams through the website. A radio recording of Richard II is also available through the website. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theatre venue to this list, please write bookwaves@hotmail.com. The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 27, 2020: Roger Kahn and the Boys of Summer appeared first on KPFA.

Wayne Goodman in conversation with Meg Elison, speculative fiction writer and feminist essayist whose writings often incorporate the themes of female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility

In this episode, host Ian Carlos Crawford discusses the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dark Horse comics with Meg Elison, Conor Webster, and Mike Patterson-Pack. Like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and support us on patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)! 

  Episode 143 is an interview with author Meg Elison. Meg is celebrating two new books - Find Layla and Big Girl. We have a discussion about creativity during quarantine, whether the apocalypse looks like she imagined it as an author of speculative post-apocalyptic fiction, and the body positive / fat acceptance movements. A good chunk of time was spent discussing writing authentically and inclusively, and how to walk the line as a creator of realistic portrayals of diversity without falling into the pitfalls of stereotypes or problematic tropes.    Find more of Meg Elison here.   Patreon supporters heard this show first! Consider giving a small donation to Patreon.com/IncitingProjects! You’ll get cool rewards like unedited video and audio podcasts from Inciting A Riot and Inciting A BrewHaHa, as well as bonus extras not published anywhere else, plus deals and coupons! Patrons are charged on a per-creation basis, so you only pay for the content you want!   Love and Lyte,   Fire Lyte   Blog: IncitingARiot.com FireLyte@IncitingARiot.com @IncitingARiot on Twitter Facebook.com/IncitingARiotPodcast Subscribe/Rate/Comment on iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesRiot Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh

Amanda and Jenn discuss novels about cranky old ladies, rich people problems, great graphic novels, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Literati, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman and The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (rec'd by Mardy) Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (rec'd by Kim) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon  (rec'd by Kelly) The Road to Nowhere series by Meg Elison (rec'd by Nicole) World War Z by Max Brooks (rec'd by Elizabeth) Questions 1. I know you're receiving a lot of requests about quarantine reading, but this one is a bit different. My name is Jennie and I am a state unemployment employee. We are working 60+ hours per week and we're still going into the office every day. I'm struggling with relaxing during my meager downtime. I'm looking for something funny to read or a fun romance or even a chill cozy mystery. As far as funny books go, my humor is more dry, so I can be picky and I don't like gross humor at all. Romance I like things that don't really have sex on the page but that's not a real deal breaker. I'm not a huge romance person so I haven't read a lot. Please don't recommend Red, White and Royal Blue. I did not enjoy it... It just wasn't for me. Any thoughts on books that could help me wind down after my long days would be great. Thanks ladies!!! -Jennifer 2. I don't have good words about the situation we're all in right now, only hopes that you and those you love are well! I'm writing because I need a little help with a birthday gift for my daughter. She will be 11 on April 30, and had been looking forward to hosting a Harry Potter-themed sleepover with her besties. Obviously, that will not be happening. Of course, we will still celebrate her like whoa, and the party can still happen at some time in the hazy future, but for now, but for now, she's pretty bummed. I would like to get her a book (or several) or her birthday to help fill the hours and distract her a bit. She is an advanced reader, and reads widely, but lately has been wanting to read some graphic novels and/or manga. So far she has enjoyed a manga of Pride and Prejudice and another of Emma, as well as the Zita the Space Girl series (thanks for that rec!), the graphic novels of the Baby Sitters Club, and everything Raina Telgemeier has ever done. She also LOVES Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl, and I just ordered the first trade of Lumberjanes, thinking some combination of Baby Sitters Club plus supernatural content might be a hit with her. Her tastes are all over the map right now. Favorite recent reads have been the Harry Potter series, the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, the Hunger Games series, The Land of Stories series, all of Karina Yan Glaser's Vanderbeekers books, and every old Baby Sitters Club book I had (she found a box in my parent's attic over Christmas, and has blazed through them), and she is on the second book of the School for Good and Evil Series currently. She also recently read and enjoyed "The Selection" by Kiera Cass, which she said she liked "because of the romance;" she enjoyed the romance subplots of the Hunger Games as well. She's really grooving on the identity of being a self-described "nerdy girl" right now, loves theater, and plasters all her notebooks with cat stickers and NASA stickers (to give you a little bit more of who she is). We don't really limit what she reads, and she chooses for herself what she's comfortable with. Clearly violence/peril isn't a deal-breaker because she loved the Hunger Games. However, she picked up a manga shelved in our library's YA section that featured some nudity, and she was NOT a fan. Can you help me find some graphic novels/manga/comics that might appeal and help brighten up her birthday? Thank you!!! -Jenn 3. Hi, I hope you guys are staying safe and healthy! I’ve recently read Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and Normal People by Sally Rooney and I fell in love with the complex dynamics between characters, power shifts, and ESPECIALLy the upending of a seemingly pristine, wealthy veneer. In Little Fires Everywhere I loved how there was the seemingly perfect planned community of Shaker Heights and the equally perfect, wealthy Richardson family, but as the plot develops and you dive deeper into the characters’ psyche and background you realize that it’s all hanging on by just a thread. A similar concept happens in Normal People as Marianna lives in this beautiful mansion in the nice part of town but although raised in material wealth you soon realize she lives in significant emotional deprivation which has negatively affected her sense of self. I would love to find another book that touches on this same idea, the uncovering of a seemingly perfect, wealthy and beautiful setting, life, person or family. In a book I love discovering that there’s more to the story than a person’s projected image, that the surface is just the touch of the iceberg. Other books I’ve enjoyed: The Mothers by Brit Bennett (SO GOOD!), Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman. Thanks!! -EW 4. I'm looking for a light read to recommend to a friend as a distraction. She recently had to cancel her wedding because of COVID and could use some fluff (but maybe not anything with too much of an over the top love celebration HEA just yet). Typically she reads more non-fiction (David Sedaris is a favorite) or literary fiction with her book club but I'd like to gift her the book-equivalent of binge watching Great British Bake Off or Project Runway. Any suggestions? -Heather 5. I recently read a couple of New Adult college romance books. For the first time in a while I've found characters that I can identify with. I'm also in my early twenties, in college and doubting my career path. The problem is that in these books boys and relationships are always the answer to their problems. Do you know of any books with this kind of setting without the relationship being the answer to everything? I really dislike YA and would prefer the characters to be more mature. -Rose 6. I discovered your show about 3 months back. I love it. Can't get enough of it! I recently read the book "Night Boat to Tangier". More than the plot I loved the way the book is written. Long, winding conversations between two old friends. I also love the "Before Sunrise" movie series for the conversation between the leads. I would love to read more books of this type. I read all genres. -Pragna 7. I've just finished All the Single Ladies (Rebecca Traistor), as recommended by one of the Book Riot podcasts! I'd love something similar, strong single women having great lives and dealing with the judgmental parents, but with less statistics and politics than All the Single Ladies. Female led chick lit? Bio of a fab business woman? Anything to combat the "but don't you want a boyfriend?!??" people! -Caroline Books Discussed Spirit Run by Noe Álvarez The Outrun by Amy Liptrot To Have and To Hoax by Martha Waters An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. by Marlaine Delargy Jonesy #1 by Sam Humphries, illustrated by Cailtin Rose Boyle Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol. 1: BFF by Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare, illustrated by Natacha Bustos (also, Rocket Girl) Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel (rec’d by Rebecca) The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy Naturally Tan by Tan France (tw: discussion of racism, depression, and suicidal ideation) Normal People by Sally Rooney (tw: emotional abuse) Chemistry by Weike Wang (tw: bad parents) This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Outline by Rachel Cusk (rec’d by Jessica) Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg (tw: sick child)

The Ravens wish to express our gratitude for our patrons this month:Korin – from California Henry – from CanadaJohn – from TexasThank you for your support! Meg Elison is an American science fiction author and feminist essayist whose writings often incorporate the themes of female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility.  Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award; her second novel, The Book of Etta, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Meg is a James A. Tiptree Award honoree (now known as the Otherwise Award, an award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender) and also a producer of the Cliterary Salon, a monthly Bay Area performance celebrating inclusive female sexuality in all its forms. Meg shared her very honest opinion about both PantheaCon and its final event.Our dear friend Red Dragon also joined us during this interview. We will hear more from Red Dragon in a later episode.

Gender wars, pandemics, and, of course, workaday clones: is it the daily news, or our shared future? In the latest GrottoPod Gabfest, co-producers Susan Gerhard, Daniel Pearce and Beth Winegarner plus special guest Andrew Braithwaite take on dark visions, with four of our favorite dystopian novels under discussion: Meg Elison's The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Naomi Alderman's The Power, and Ling Ma's Severance.

Your camera thinks it spotted a familiar face. “Cameras don't think,” Annie said, looking down at her phone. “Who taught this thing to identify specific faces? Who thought that was a good idea?” “Ok, neuromantic,” Jonah scoffed at her, looking over. “Not everything is a part of the panopticon. Calm your tits.” “It's just weird that it thinks,” Annie continued, loading more Diet Cokes into the communal fridge. “And why does that make me a new romantic?” | Copyright 2020 by Meg Elison. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your camera thinks it spotted a familiar face. “Cameras don’t think,” Annie said, looking down at her phone. “Who taught this thing to identify specific faces? Who thought that was a good idea?” “Ok, neuromantic,” Jonah scoffed at her, looking over. “Not everything is a part of the panopticon. Calm your tits.” “It’s just weird that it thinks,” Annie continued, loading more Diet Cokes into the communal fridge. “And why does that make me a new romantic?” | Copyright 2020 by Meg Elison. Narrated by Justine Eyre.

Elizabeth interviews Meg Elison, author of The Book of Flora, part three of The Road to Nowhere trilogy.

In this special Halloween crossover episode, Slayerfest 98 host Ian Carlos Crawford and host of The Lost Episode Ryan Houlihan discuss how certain horror movies would've gone if they took place in Sunnydale. They cover Aliens with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina writer Joshua Conkel, Scream with YA author Adam Sass, The Craft with author Meg Elison, Cabin in the Woods with writer Madeleine Davies, and The Exorcist with Buffy writer Jane Espenson. Don't forget to like Slayerfest 98 on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), subscribe/rate us on iTunes, and visit our patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)! New episodes come out every other Tuesday (the same day Buffy aired), so see you all back here next time!

It's our first ever live show! We had the best time ever at the Betabrand store with real humans! In an actual space! Thank you to all who came out, but especially to guests RED SCOTT-- who was a Mouse Deer Scientist-- and MEG ELISON-- who was a Moa Scientist. We project images and play game and talk about animals that would look great on instagram.  Show Notes Red Scott on Twitter Red's personal website The Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast on iTunes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon The Book of Etta on Amazon The Book of Flora! If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women on McSweeney's Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter

Reproductive Slavery and the Apocalypse: Meg Elison Click above to download or find us on Apple Podcasts. This episode features author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison. We talk about menstruating during the apocalypse, the “importance” of furthering the species, and I ramble at Meg about my... Continue Reading →

Katherine Paterson's beloved Bridge to Terabithia is the perfect subject for SSR's milestone FIFTIETH episode! The winner of the 1978 Newbery Medal, this novel is perhaps best known for its truly heartbreaking ending and the way it introduces young readers to grief. Drawing on her own experience watching her young son lose a best friend to a tragic accident, Paterson touches on themes of imagination, friendship, poverty, conservatism, religion, and more in Terabithia. We take a deep dive into all of these subjects in Episode 50!This week's guest is Meg Elison, who identifies as an LGBTQ writer and essayist. She also writes satire and stage comedy for her sketch group, The Mess. Meg is well-known for a viral McSweeney's essay entitled “If Women Wrote Men The Way Men Wrote Women,” and her novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife was named a “Best Book of the Year” by Publisher's Weekly. Her latest novel is called The Book of Flora. Follow Meg on Twitter (@megelison).

Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora (47North, 2019) trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse. The first installment, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, set the tone with a pandemic that destroyed civilization, leaving behind 10 men for every woman. To avoid rape and enslavement in this male-dominated landscape, the eponymous midwife must present herself as a man to survive. In the next volume, The Books of Etta, set a century later, gender remains fraught but the rules have changed. The midwife’s legacy lives on in the town of Nowhere, where women are decision-makers and leaders. In this evolved world, Etta is allowed to choose the traditionally male job of raider, although she must still pretend to be a man to travel across a sparsely populated Midwest. Fortunately, this isn’t as heavy a lift for Etta as it had been for the midwife since Etta prefers to be called Eddie and identifies as male. The notion of choice is one that Elison takes a step further in the trilogy’s latest and final installment, The Book of Flora. Born male, Flora was neutered as a young boy by a slaver, and, as an adult, identifies as female. Although she doesn’t always find acceptance among the communities she encounters, she refuses to hide her gender identity even when traveling alone, preferring the risk of being female to hiding who she is. “As the world goes from absolute chaos to small pockets of … a more peaceful existence for women, I thought the most gendered person in the series, Flora, was the right person to come to something like peace,” Elison says. Set in a still dangerous world, The Book of Flora is nonetheless a riot of humanity, full of characters representing marginalized voices and communities incubating new cultures and norms. There’s even a hint of an evolutionary leap that may one day make gender obsolete. “I was really interested in books like Gulliver's Travels, but also in the idea of, after the loss of national media and immediate communications, how different our societies would immediately become: we'd have these little pockets of culture where every town would have its own urban legends and every town might have its own religion and every town might have its own courtship rituals. So that that gave me a real opportunity to get weird and I got really weird with it, and it was extremely fun.” Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for a decade as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from medicine to justice reform. He now serves as director of communications at a non-profit dedicated to justice reform. You can follow him on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora (47North, 2019) trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse. The first installment, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, set the tone with a pandemic that destroyed civilization, leaving behind 10 men for every woman. To avoid rape and enslavement in this male-dominated landscape, the eponymous midwife must present herself as a man to survive. In the next volume, The Books of Etta, set a century later, gender remains fraught but the rules have changed. The midwife’s legacy lives on in the town of Nowhere, where women are decision-makers and leaders. In this evolved world, Etta is allowed to choose the traditionally male job of raider, although she must still pretend to be a man to travel across a sparsely populated Midwest. Fortunately, this isn’t as heavy a lift for Etta as it had been for the midwife since Etta prefers to be called Eddie and identifies as male. The notion of choice is one that Elison takes a step further in the trilogy’s latest and final installment, The Book of Flora. Born male, Flora was neutered as a young boy by a slaver, and, as an adult, identifies as female. Although she doesn’t always find acceptance among the communities she encounters, she refuses to hide her gender identity even when traveling alone, preferring the risk of being female to hiding who she is. “As the world goes from absolute chaos to small pockets of … a more peaceful existence for women, I thought the most gendered person in the series, Flora, was the right person to come to something like peace,” Elison says. Set in a still dangerous world, The Book of Flora is nonetheless a riot of humanity, full of characters representing marginalized voices and communities incubating new cultures and norms. There’s even a hint of an evolutionary leap that may one day make gender obsolete. “I was really interested in books like Gulliver's Travels, but also in the idea of, after the loss of national media and immediate communications, how different our societies would immediately become: we'd have these little pockets of culture where every town would have its own urban legends and every town might have its own religion and every town might have its own courtship rituals. So that that gave me a real opportunity to get weird and I got really weird with it, and it was extremely fun.” Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for a decade as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from medicine to justice reform. He now serves as director of communications at a non-profit dedicated to justice reform. You can follow him on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora (47North, 2019) trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse. The first installment, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, set the tone with a pandemic that destroyed civilization, leaving behind 10 men for every woman. To avoid rape and enslavement in this male-dominated landscape, the eponymous midwife must present herself as a man to survive. In the next volume, The Books of Etta, set a century later, gender remains fraught but the rules have changed. The midwife’s legacy lives on in the town of Nowhere, where women are decision-makers and leaders. In this evolved world, Etta is allowed to choose the traditionally male job of raider, although she must still pretend to be a man to travel across a sparsely populated Midwest. Fortunately, this isn’t as heavy a lift for Etta as it had been for the midwife since Etta prefers to be called Eddie and identifies as male. The notion of choice is one that Elison takes a step further in the trilogy’s latest and final installment, The Book of Flora. Born male, Flora was neutered as a young boy by a slaver, and, as an adult, identifies as female. Although she doesn’t always find acceptance among the communities she encounters, she refuses to hide her gender identity even when traveling alone, preferring the risk of being female to hiding who she is. “As the world goes from absolute chaos to small pockets of … a more peaceful existence for women, I thought the most gendered person in the series, Flora, was the right person to come to something like peace,” Elison says. Set in a still dangerous world, The Book of Flora is nonetheless a riot of humanity, full of characters representing marginalized voices and communities incubating new cultures and norms. There’s even a hint of an evolutionary leap that may one day make gender obsolete. “I was really interested in books like Gulliver's Travels, but also in the idea of, after the loss of national media and immediate communications, how different our societies would immediately become: we'd have these little pockets of culture where every town would have its own urban legends and every town might have its own religion and every town might have its own courtship rituals. So that that gave me a real opportunity to get weird and I got really weird with it, and it was extremely fun.” Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for a decade as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from medicine to justice reform. He now serves as director of communications at a non-profit dedicated to justice reform. You can follow him on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God by Rose Lemberg   Father is trying to help me get into NASH. He thinks that seeing a real architect at work will help me with entrance exams. So father paid money, to design a house he does not want, just to get me close to Zepechiar. He is a professor at NASH and a human-Ruvan contact. Reason and matter­—these are the cornerstones of Spinoza’s philosophy that the Ruvans admire so much. Reason and matter: an architect’s mind and building materials. These are the attributes through which we can know God. And then, of course, there’s particle technology.   Full story after the cut: Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 68 for March 18, 2019. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to share this story with you. Today we have a GlitterShip original, "These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God" by Rose Lemberg, and "Female Figure of the Early Spedos Type, 1884-" by Sonya Taaffe. This episode is part of the newest GlitterShip issue, which was just released and is available for purchase at glittership.com/buy and on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and now Gumroad! If you’re one of our Patreon supporters, you should have access to the new issue waiting for you when you log in. For everyone else, it’s $2.99. GlitterShip is also a part of the Audible Trial Program. This means that just by listening to GlitterShip, you are eligible for a free 30 day membership on Audible and a free audiobook to keep. Today's book recommendation is The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison. In a world ripped apart by a plague that prevents babies from being carried to term and kills the mothers, an unnamed woman keeps a record of her survival. To download The Book of the Unnamed Midwife for free today, go to www.audibletrial.com/glittership — or choose another book if you’re in the mood for something else.     Sonya Taaffe reads dead languages and tells living stories. Her short fiction and poetry have been collected most recently in Forget the Sleepless Shores (Lethe Press) and previously in Singing Innocence and Experience, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens, A Mayse-Bikhl, and Ghost Signs. She lives with her husband and two cats in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she writes about film for Patreon and remains proud of naming a Kuiper belt object.       Female Figure of the Early Spedos Type, 1884- by Sonya Taaffe   When I said she had a Modigliani face, I meantshe was white as a cracked cliffand bare as the brush of a thumbthe day we met on the thyme-hot hills above Naxosand by the time we parted in Paris, she was drawinghalf-divorced Russian poets from memory,drinking absinthe like black coffeewith the ghosts of the painted Aegean still ringing her eyes.Sometimes she posts self-portraitsscratched red as ritual,a badge of black crayon in the plane of her groin.In another five thousand years,she may tell someone—not me—another one of her names.   Our story today is "These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God" by Rose Lemberg, read by Bogi Takács.   Bogi Takács (prezzey.net) is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person currently living in the US as a resident alien. Eir speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction have been published in a variety of venues like Clarkesworld, Apex, Strange Horizons and podcast on Glittership, among others. You can follow Bogi on Twitter, Instagram and Patreon, or visit eir website at www.prezzey.net. Bogi also recently edited the Lambda Award-winning Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016, for Lethe Press. Rose Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed‘s Queer Destroy Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, and many other venues. Rose’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is forthcoming from Tachyon Press. You can find more of their work on their Patreon: patreon.com/roselemberg       These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God by Rose Lemberg   Father is trying to help me get into NASH. He thinks that seeing a real architect at work will help me with entrance exams. So father paid money, to design a house he does not want, just to get me close to Zepechiar. He is a professor at NASH and a human-Ruvan contact. Reason and matter­—these are the cornerstones of Spinoza’s philosophy that the Ruvans admire so much. Reason and matter: an architect’s mind and building materials. These are the attributes through which we can know God. And then, of course, there’s particle technology. The house-model Zepechiar has made for my family is all sleek glass. It is a space house with transparent outer walls; the endlessness of stars will be just an invisible layer away. “I do not want to live in space,” dad hisses. Father hushes them. Zepechiar’s model for our new house is cubical, angular, with a retro-modern flair. The kitchen is the only part of it that does not rotate, a small nod to dad’s desire for domesticity. Outside of the kitchen capsule, the living spaces are all zero-g with floating furniture that assembles itself out of thin air and adapts to the body’s curves. There is no privacy in the house, but nobody will be looking—out there, in space, between the expanses of the void. “Bringing the vacuum in is all the rage these days,” the architect says. I pretend indifference. Doodling in my notebook. It looks like nothing much. Swirls, like the swirls our ancients made to mark the landing sites for Ruva vessels. For thousands of years nobody had remembered the Ruva, and when they returned, they did not want to land anymore on the curls and swirls of patterns made in the fields. They had evolved. Using reason. They razed our cities to pour perfectly level landing sites. They sucked excess water out of the atmosphere and emptied the oceans, then refilled them again. But then they read Spinoza and decided to spare and/or save us. Because we, too, can know God. If we continued studying Spinoza, Ruvans said, we’d be enlightened and would not need sparing or saving. I want to build something that curls and twists between hills, but hills have been razed after the Ruva arrived. Hills are frivolous, an affront of imagination against reason, and it is reason that brought us terraforming particle technology that allowed us to suck all usable minerals from the imperfections of the earth: the hills, the mountains, the ravines, the trees, leaving only a flatness of the landing sites between the flatness covered by angular geodomes. I learned about hills from the rebel file. Every kid at school downloads the rebel file. All around the world too, I guess. I don’t know anybody else who actually read it. I do not notice anything until my father and dad wave a cheerful goodbye and leave me, alone with Zepechiar. He’ll help me with entrance exams. Or something. He pulls up a chair from the air, shapes it into a Ruvan geometry that is perhaps just a shade more frivolous than reason dictates. He says, “Your father lied about the purpose of your visit. What is the reason behind it?” I mumble, “I want to get into NASH.” “Show me your architectural drawings,” Zepechiar orders. His voice is level. Reason is the architect’s best tool. I hesitate. Can I show him— No. I need something safer, so I swipe the notebook, show him a thing I made while he was fussing over dad’s kitchen: a cubical model of black metal and spaceglass, not unlike Zepechiar’s house model for my family. The distinction is in the color contrast, a white stripe of a pipe running like a festive tie over the steel bundle. Zepechiar nods. “Show me what you do not want to show me.” There is something in his voice. I raise my hand to make the swiping motion, then stop mid-gesture. “You could have convinced dad to say yes to that kitchen,” I say. “They would have cooked breakfasts for eternity, looking out into an infinite space until their heart gave out.” “I’m selling my architecture, not my voice,” he says, but something in his voice is bitter. Bitterness. Emotion, not reason. He is being unprofessional on purpose, perhaps to lull me into trusting him. “Why did you decide to become an architect?” I ask, to distract. A tame enough question. My father’s money bought me an informational interview. “Architecture is an ultimate act of reason,” Zepechiar says. It’s such a Ruvan thing to say. I must have read it a hundred times, in hundreds of preparatory articles. “I teach this in the intro course. Architecture is key to that which contains us: houses. Ships. The universe. The universe is the ultimate container. The universe is God. God is a container of all things. We learn from Spinoza that we can only know God through reason; and that is why we approach God through architecture.” “If God contains all things, would God contain—” swirls? Hills? Leviathans? “The thing you do not want to show me?” says Zepechiar. His voice lilts just a bit, and I am taken in. I swipe my hand over the notebook, to show Zepechiar what will certainly disqualify me from NASH. It is a boat that curves and undulates. Its sides are decorated in pinwheel and spiral designs. There is not a straight angle anywhere, not a flat surface. I have populated my Ark with old-style numbers—the ones with curves. There are two fives, two sixes, a pair of 23s. Zepechiar rubs his forehead. “What are the numbers meant to indicate?” “Um… pairs of animals.” I read that in the rebel file, but I do not know what they are supposed to look like. “This… is hardly reasonable,” says Zepechiar. “You know what Spinoza said. The Bible is nothing but fantasy, and imagination is anathema to reason.” I am stubborn, and yes, I’ve read my Spinoza. Scripture is no better than anything else. But God’s existence is not denied. I say, “You could use reason to replicate the Ark in matter.” “Yes,” Zepechiar says. Yes. We can use particle technology to manipulate almost any matter. Even sentient matter. His voice hides a threat. “I want to know where you learned this. And why did you draw this.” God told Noah to build the Ark and save the animals. Ruvans just sucked all the water out of the seas, froze some, boiled the rest, and put it back empty of life. The rebel file does not always make sense, but this is clear. “I wanted to recreate the miracle of the Ark, to imagine the glory of God.” Zepechiar says, “No. It is only through reason that you can reach God. God is infinite, but reason and the material world are the only attributes of God that we can reach. I want to know where you learned this.” His voice. His voice bends me. The rebel file. Everybody knows about the rebel file. Nobody cares about the rebel file. I can speak of it. Nothing to it. Just say it. Do what he says. Use reason. Straighten every curve. I mumble, “Ugh… here and there, kids at school, you know.” “I don’t.” He squints at me, halfway between respect and scorn. “Erase the Ark.” I breathe in. I have always been stubborn. “I do not want to erase the Ark. It is a miracle.” He breathes in. His hand is on my arm. “Miracles are simply things you cannot yet understand. Like particle tech and sentient matter.” He folds me. I’ve heard of the advanced geometry one can only learn at NASH, but this is more than that, this is something more. It is nauseating, like I am being doubled and twisted and extended. Dimensionally, stretched along multiple axes until my human hills—my curves, my limbs—are flattened into a singular geometric shape, a white pipe that runs around along the lines of the design studio, wrapping around the cubic shape of it like a festive ribbon. I am… not human anymore. I am sentient matter altered, like the rest of Earth, by Ruvan/human particle technology. I see Zepechiar from above, from below, in multiple angles. I have no eyes, but some abstract form of seeing, a sentience, remains to me. “I want to know,” Zepechiar says, “who altered you.” He falls apart into a thousand shiny cubes, then reassembles himself again, a towering creature of glimmering metal, a Ruvan of flesh behind the capsule of dark steel. I, too, am altered by him now, a thousand smaller cubes scattered by his voice, reassembled into the dimensional model of the house in the void. I see dad and father standing above my form. Perhaps they never left. They do not seem to care if Zepechiar is human or Ruvan. Zepechiar speaks to dad. “The perfect kitchen just for you—look at these retro-granite countertops, self-cleaning—” He pokes me. “Where did you learn this?” I think back at him, quoting the Scripture the best I can. “Two by two, they ascended the Ark: Male and female in their pairs, and some female in their pairs and some male in their pairs, and some had no gender and some did not care. Some came in triangles and some came in squares. And some of them came alone.” Like the Leviathan. The Leviathan holds all the knowledge the Ruvans discarded for reason’s sake, all the swirly landing sites, their own hills, their poetry. The Leviathan is the Ruvans’ rebel file. I no longer know my initial shape. I am made of hundreds of shining squares. My parents are here, in the room, but they do not know me. They are human—all curves and lilts of flesh. Forever suspect. I am Ruvan/human now. I am an architectural model, sentient matter transformed by an architect’s reason—and architects are the closest thing to God. “Think about all the damage scripture did,” says Zepechiar. “Holy wars, destruction, revision, rewritten over and over by those who came after but made no more sense. Think about what imagination did to this planet and to ours. It is dangerous. It makes you dangerous. But I will make matter out of you.” I am a house. Floating in space, rotating along all my axes. Inside me, the kitchen is the only thing that is still. I have been human or Ruvan, I do not remember, but I carry two humans inside me. They no longer remember me, but they came in a pair. I am their Ark. Zepechiar made me. A Ruvan/human architect. An architect is the closest thing to God. But so are the buildings architects create. So am I. Slowly, I begin to shift my consciousness along the cubic geometry of my new shape. Slowly, I move the space house, away. Where, in the darkest of space, there swims a Leviathan.   END   “Female Figure of the Early Spedos Type, 1884-" is copyright Sonya Taaffe 2019. “These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God” is copyright Rose Lemberg 2019. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library. You can support GlitterShip by checking out our Patreon at patreon.com/keffy, subscribing to our feed, leaving reviews on iTunes, or buying your own copy of the Summer 2018 issue at www.glittership.com/buy. You can also support us by picking up a free audiobook at  www.audibletrial.com/glittership. Thanks for listening, and we’ll be back soon with a reprint of “Ratcatcher” by Amy Griswold.

Fantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism, or can it alter our destiny? In this episode of Lit Cast Live, Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night), and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife) explore these questions and more in a discussion moderated by Nilgun Bayraktar, a writer and professor at California College of the Arts. This Litquake event was recorded live at the San Francisco Public Library during their Night of Ideas on February 2, 2019. Note - due to technical issues at the time of recording, the audio for some parts of this this episode may appear slightly distorted. Lit Cast greatly appreciates our listeners understanding. 

Meet Hermes Maleficarum, the reclusive force behind the multiverse's biggest publishing house. A mystery generations in the making. The first thing I notice about Hermes was how unlike the rest of his family he seems. Hermes' parents, Taliesin and his wife Morgana, were something of a power couple in the magic business, cutting a twin swath like obsidian blades at every fashionable event. | Copyright 2019 by Meg Elison. Narrated by Pandora Kew.

Several Queer Words Podcast authors discuss their approaches to writing and sharing some inner thoughts with other queer writers. Included are: Meg Elison, Andrew Demcak, Ajuan Mance, Natasha Dennerstein, Rick May, Jewelle Gomez, Gar McVey-Russell, Europa Grace, Trebor Healey, Rob Rosen, and Nona Caspers.

‘the earth’s public lice’ and ‘the great allegory bird’ The Milky Way Galaxy's greatest person MEG ELISON is back, and she's here to hate on a crab, whose migratory habits are nightmarish at best. We get into extinction with Dodo Birds and unsettling scuttling with the Christmas Island Red Crab on our newest! Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon The Book of Etta on Amazon PREORDER The Book of Flora! If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women on McSweeney's Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter

Wayne Goodman in conversation with Meg Elison, speculative fiction writer and feminist essayist whose writings often incorporate the themes of female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility

Hey hunnys. If Disney can make Christopher Robin look like a horror film, we can make the Pooh Forest universe into an orgy. After all, as Pooh himself famously said, "You don't spell [love]...you feel it." So let's feel it together, with thanks to Meg Elison, Lauren Parker, Maia Jannele, Joe Wadlington, Sarah Manolis, and The Horrible Heffal-hump. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

a.k.a. 'sparkle spits' and 'ocean hankies' Special guest MEG ELISON is back and she's here talk the many and terrible caves of the world, but especially those that glow! We talk vomit nets, sparkle times, and ALSO Giant Oceanic Manta Rays! It's a lot. And you don't know Elsa, maybe she DID make her ice palace with vomit.  Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon The Book of Etta on Amazon  If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women on McSweeney's Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter

The self-published vampire novelette “Faking It, Phoebe” caught Chad’s eye on Amazon, so we invited our friend, author Meg Elison to join us in a conversation about genre fiction, the publishing world, girls in nerdom and vampires vs. goths.

Let's oversimplify the French Revolution! Shipwreck goes #DeepDickens with A Tale of Two Cities, because Fanfic recognizes Fanfic. This month's fellow revolutionaries include Lily Miller, Mel Burke, Moon Choe, Diane Glazman, Claire Rice, and Meg Elison. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Greetings, Merry Pornsters! For the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Shipwreck writes fanfiction about Tom Wolfe's Summer of Love fanfiction epic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with some generation-defining work by Lauren Parker, Kendra McPhee, Meg Elison, Julia Wilde, Chase Kamp, and the Cummer of Love. Hop on the bus. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Born into a world where men vastly outnumber women, Etta is expected to choose between two roles: mother or midwife. And yet the protagonist of Meg Elison‘s eponymous second novel chooses a third: raider, a job that allows her to roam a sparsely populated Midwest, witnessing the myriad ways people have figured out how to survive. The Book of Etta is among this year’s nominees for the Philip K. Dick Award, following in the footsteps of its predecessor, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which earned Elison the Philip K. Dick Award in 2015. In Midwife, Elison explored the dangers of being female in the aftermath of an apocalyptic illness that killed more women than men and rendered childbirth nearly always fatal. Etta is set a century later. The midwife is now revered as the founder of Etta’s hometown, Nowhere, and the midwife’s diary is a bible of sorts, the subject of study and interpretation. Thanks to the midwife’s influence, women wield power in Nowhere. They are the leaders and decision-makers, and family life is organized into Hives, with one woman free to choose multiple partners. And yet even in a town where women are safe and respected, Etta feels out of place. She is most at ease on the road, where she assumes a male guise, calling herself Eddy. In her lone travels, of course, it is safer to pretend to be a man. But Eddy is more than mere disguise. Over time, Etta realizes that Eddy is a true expression of her identity. “People like Etta often grow up feeling that the strictures imposed on them because of their assumed gender don’t suit them at all,” Elison explains in her New Books interview. “In Etta, I get to react to a lot of the gender roles that are imposed on women. … and explore what it looks like to pursue your own individual destiny.” The Book of Etta has many layers. It is an adventure story, as its hero looks for useful relics among the ruins. It is a rescue story, as Etta/Eddy seeks to free women trapped in bondage. And it’s a story about memory and the power of writing, as reflected in the biblical resonance of Elison’s titles. “I was really drawn to the idea of people without books, people without the ability to print books… People who don’t have books will come to rely on diaries,” Elison says. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe. He worked for a decade as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform. He now serves as director of communications at a think tank in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born into a world where men vastly outnumber women, Etta is expected to choose between two roles: mother or midwife. And yet the protagonist of Meg Elison‘s eponymous second novel chooses a third: raider, a job that allows her to roam a sparsely populated Midwest, witnessing the myriad ways people have figured out how to survive. The Book of Etta is among this year’s nominees for the Philip K. Dick Award, following in the footsteps of its predecessor, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which earned Elison the Philip K. Dick Award in 2015. In Midwife, Elison explored the dangers of being female in the aftermath of an apocalyptic illness that killed more women than men and rendered childbirth nearly always fatal. Etta is set a century later. The midwife is now revered as the founder of Etta’s hometown, Nowhere, and the midwife’s diary is a bible of sorts, the subject of study and interpretation. Thanks to the midwife’s influence, women wield power in Nowhere. They are the leaders and decision-makers, and family life is organized into Hives, with one woman free to choose multiple partners. And yet even in a town where women are safe and respected, Etta feels out of place. She is most at ease on the road, where she assumes a male guise, calling herself Eddy. In her lone travels, of course, it is safer to pretend to be a man. But Eddy is more than mere disguise. Over time, Etta realizes that Eddy is a true expression of her identity. “People like Etta often grow up feeling that the strictures imposed on them because of their assumed gender don’t suit them at all,” Elison explains in her New Books interview. “In Etta, I get to react to a lot of the gender roles that are imposed on women. … and explore what it looks like to pursue your own individual destiny.” The Book of Etta has many layers. It is an adventure story, as its hero looks for useful relics among the ruins. It is a rescue story, as Etta/Eddy seeks to free women trapped in bondage. And it’s a story about memory and the power of writing, as reflected in the biblical resonance of Elison’s titles. “I was really drawn to the idea of people without books, people without the ability to print books… People who don’t have books will come to rely on diaries,” Elison says. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe. He worked for a decade as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform. He now serves as director of communications at a think tank in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born into a world where men vastly outnumber women, Etta is expected to choose between two roles: mother or midwife. And yet the protagonist of Meg Elison‘s eponymous second novel chooses a third: raider, a job that allows her to roam a sparsely populated Midwest, witnessing the myriad ways people have figured out how to survive. The Book of Etta is among this year’s nominees for the Philip K. Dick Award, following in the footsteps of its predecessor, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which earned Elison the Philip K. Dick Award in 2015. In Midwife, Elison explored the dangers of being female in the aftermath of an apocalyptic illness that killed more women than men and rendered childbirth nearly always fatal. Etta is set a century later. The midwife is now revered as the founder of Etta’s hometown, Nowhere, and the midwife’s diary is a bible of sorts, the subject of study and interpretation. Thanks to the midwife’s influence, women wield power in Nowhere. They are the leaders and decision-makers, and family life is organized into Hives, with one woman free to choose multiple partners. And yet even in a town where women are safe and respected, Etta feels out of place. She is most at ease on the road, where she assumes a male guise, calling herself Eddy. In her lone travels, of course, it is safer to pretend to be a man. But Eddy is more than mere disguise. Over time, Etta realizes that Eddy is a true expression of her identity. “People like Etta often grow up feeling that the strictures imposed on them because of their assumed gender don’t suit them at all,” Elison explains in her New Books interview. “In Etta, I get to react to a lot of the gender roles that are imposed on women. … and explore what it looks like to pursue your own individual destiny.” The Book of Etta has many layers. It is an adventure story, as its hero looks for useful relics among the ruins. It is a rescue story, as Etta/Eddy seeks to free women trapped in bondage. And it’s a story about memory and the power of writing, as reflected in the biblical resonance of Elison’s titles. “I was really drawn to the idea of people without books, people without the ability to print books… People who don’t have books will come to rely on diaries,” Elison says. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe. He worked for a decade as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform. He now serves as director of communications at a think tank in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, "Sailor's Delight" by jinjurly, and what we'd do in the event of an apocalypse. Things we mentioned: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Ellison)Star WarsMad Max: Fury Road"Sailor's Delight" Broken Earth trilogy (N. K. Jemisin)School’s Out ForeverLord of the FliesIn the End (Alexandra Rowland)"Solfege" (Freya Marske)“The Day it Fell Apart” (Leslie Fish)Natural Disasters What we’re reading lately: Frederica (Georgette Heyer)Lotus Blue (Cat Sparks)The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton)A lot of Person of Interest fanfiction. Transcription The transcription of this episode is available here! Thanks to Magali, Neharika, and Sara for their amazing work this week!

In the 50th episode of Slayerfest 98, host Ian Carlos Crawford and guest host Adam Sass discuss the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 episode "A New Man" with special guests John Leavitt and Meg Elison. Don't forget to like Slayerfest 98 on Facebook(https://www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(https://twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and subscribe/rate us on iTunes! New episodes come out every Tuesday (the same day Buffy aired), so see you all back here next week!

a.k.a. 'venomous vixens' and 'delicious snot bugs' Special guest MEG ELISON is here to make you unafraid of some spiders who could probably kill you? Anyway, her voice is like honey and she's probably got bigger balls than you. We also talk about Maggie's favorite food, I mean animal, I mean bug. Basically it's a bug. Related pro tip: If you have a vagina, never date a person who won't eat oysters.  Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women on McSweeney's Support Drunk Safari on Patreon Maggie on Twitter Drunk Safari on Twitter

Hive! We review and discuss "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" by Meg Elison.

An interview with Meg Elison, author of "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" and "The Book of Etta".

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, troublemaking and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, troublemaking and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Episode 107 features interviews with two bad ass feminist voices: Dr. Leah Torres and author Meg Elison.  Dr. Torres will be discussing the recent election and what women should be doing to prepare for a Trump administration in regards to access to healthcare, birth control, and abortion.  Meg Elison discusses her novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, and its upcoming sequel regarding a dystopian future in which women are endangered and access to proper healthcare is a thing of the past. (I promise this was written to be fiction.) News: Michigan HB 4643, update on the DAPL Standing Rock "victory", and a restauranteur that's ensuring transgender people have a safe place to work. Word of the Day: Salient Inciting A Riot is now a Patreon supported podcast. If you'd like to support this show, as well as my joint show Inciting A Brewhaha, please consider giving a small, monthly donation at Patreon.com/IncitingARiot.    Love and Lyte, Fire Lyte Blog: IncitingARiot.com FireLyte@IncitingARiot.com @IncitingARiot on Twitter Facebook.com/IncitingARiotPodcast Subscribe/Rate/Comment on iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesRiot

Listen: we asked six fantastic writers to muck up Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in the pursuit of cheap thrills, free will, and maybe even a little agency. It happened, more or less. Providing the words were Madeline Gobbo, Lauren Parker, Tara Marsden, Melissa Tan, Meg Elison, and so on. Providing the musical voice: Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

Just in time for Halloween, it's Shipwreck's third annual Stephen Kingtober. This year we tackled The Master's short story cum short novel about the rigors of adult onset puberty. Hurling sanitary napkins in the locker room: Virgie Tovar, Meg Elison, Spencer Bainbridge, Jessica Lachenal, Na'amen Tilahun, and Lily Miller. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, open with a discussion about gender, publishing and awards, focused around the following articles: "Books About Women Don't Win Big Awards" by Nicola Griffith (see also the follow-up post on this project) "Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name" by Catherine Nichols They then move on to the two chosen books, The Godless by Ben Peek (31:55) and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (1:12:45). The reviews, blogs and podcasts mentioned during the discussion can be found via the following links: Pembroke Lecture on Fantasy Literature by Kij Johnson (podcast) "The Godless by Ben Peek" reviewed on Pornkitsch "Book Review: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison" by Ian Mond "Ending the World with Hope and Comfort" by Matthew Cheney If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:54:00 for final remarks. For the next episode, Kirstyn has chosen Day Boy by Trent Jamieson while Ian is recommending Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre. Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

[We regret to advise that there is some questionable audio for the first five minutes or so of this episode due to an unnoticed fault somewhere in the recording equipment. We sincerely apologise and ask that our lovely listeners persevere regardless. Thankfully, it doesn't last for long.] This episode of The Writer and the Critic was recorded live at Continuum 11: Southern Skies -- the Melbourne speculative fiction and pop culture convention. In keeping with tradition, the special guests on the podcast were the convention's Guests of Honour, Tansy Rayner Roberts and R.J. (Rebecca) Anderson, who each recommended a favourite novel to talk about. After introductions and some entertaining banter concerning Doctor Who fan fic, chocolate-mousse-filled cronuts and secret author identity crises, the discussion moves on to the books. Rebecca's pick was The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (15:40) while Tansy chose Growing Rich by Fay Weldon (59:20). Fans of Fay Weldon might also be interested to know that the 1992 mini-series of Growing Rich is available to view in full on YouTube. You're welcome. If you'd skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, it's safe to come back at 1:31:30 for final remarks. For the next episode, Kirstyn has chosen The Godless by Ben Peek while Ian is recommending The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison. Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

Despite the odds, Meg Elison did it. First, she finished the book she wanted to write. Second, she found a publisher–without an agent. Third, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, a stunning achievement for a first-time author with a small, independent press. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Sybaritic Press, 2014) is set in the American West after an epidemic has killed all but a fraction of humanity. Among the survivors, men vastly outnumber women, setting in motion a desperate journey of survival for the eponymous midwife. To avoid the serial rape and enslavement that threatens all females in this male-dominated landscape, the midwife sheds her name and even her sexuality, presenting herself as a man and continuously changing her moniker to suit the circumstance. Communication falls apart too quickly for anyone to even know the name or nature of the illness that’s destroyed civilization and made childbirth a fatal event for female survivors. The midwife’s focus is on giving the few women she meets the hard-won power to prevent pregnancy. “I think the thing I wanted to come across most strongly was to explode notions of gender… And to really think about what your options would be like if you, like your grandmother, had no control over when you had children or how or by whom,” Elison says in her New Books interview. Elison was raised on stories about the apocalypse–the fire and brimstone kind. “I grew up in some pretty crazy evangelical churches, and they hammered on us about the end of days and the Book of Revelation, and it gave me nightmares, and it made always think about the fact that the end was nigh and that it was going to be bad, and I think that stuck with me my whole life even though I shed the ideological parts of it.” For the midwife, the apocalypse poses threats both dramatic and mundane. When not searching for food and a safe place to spend the night, she must negotiate the frustrating reality of spending time with people she doesn’t like. “I started thinking about what it would be like if the only people you could find were people you couldn’t stand, if they just irritated in you every way,” Elison says. “There’s nothing wrong with them and they’re not unsafe, you just don’t like being there. So I wanted to make a character who had to make choices between feeling safe in a group of people and feeling pissed off all the time.” Elison is grateful for the editors at Sybaritic Press, who published her unagented manuscript. “They’re very good editors and publishers,” she says. But inevitably, she’s had to do a lot of marketing herself. “It’s good because I’ve learned a lot about the business doing that and it’s not good because no one listens to a writer on her own.” Fortunately, the Philip K. Dick Award has made finding readers a whole lot easier. The award “has opened a lot of doors,” she says. Related links: * An article in the Los Angeles Review of Books explores the book’s treatment of “Gender and the Apocalypse.” [Note: the article has spoilers]. * Meg Elison shares her thoughts on her blog. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite the odds, Meg Elison did it. First, she finished the book she wanted to write. Second, she found a publisher–without an agent. Third, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, a stunning achievement for a first-time author with a small, independent press. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Sybaritic Press, 2014) is set in the American West after an epidemic has killed all but a fraction of humanity. Among the survivors, men vastly outnumber women, setting in motion a desperate journey of survival for the eponymous midwife. To avoid the serial rape and enslavement that threatens all females in this male-dominated landscape, the midwife sheds her name and even her sexuality, presenting herself as a man and continuously changing her moniker to suit the circumstance. Communication falls apart too quickly for anyone to even know the name or nature of the illness that’s destroyed civilization and made childbirth a fatal event for female survivors. The midwife’s focus is on giving the few women she meets the hard-won power to prevent pregnancy. “I think the thing I wanted to come across most strongly was to explode notions of gender… And to really think about what your options would be like if you, like your grandmother, had no control over when you had children or how or by whom,” Elison says in her New Books interview. Elison was raised on stories about the apocalypse–the fire and brimstone kind. “I grew up in some pretty crazy evangelical churches, and they hammered on us about the end of days and the Book of Revelation, and it gave me nightmares, and it made always think about the fact that the end was nigh and that it was going to be bad, and I think that stuck with me my whole life even though I shed the ideological parts of it.” For the midwife, the apocalypse poses threats both dramatic and mundane. When not searching for food and a safe place to spend the night, she must negotiate the frustrating reality of spending time with people she doesn’t like. “I started thinking about what it would be like if the only people you could find were people you couldn’t stand, if they just irritated in you every way,” Elison says. “There’s nothing wrong with them and they’re not unsafe, you just don’t like being there. So I wanted to make a character who had to make choices between feeling safe in a group of people and feeling pissed off all the time.” Elison is grateful for the editors at Sybaritic Press, who published her unagented manuscript. “They’re very good editors and publishers,” she says. But inevitably, she’s had to do a lot of marketing herself. “It’s good because I’ve learned a lot about the business doing that and it’s not good because no one listens to a writer on her own.” Fortunately, the Philip K. Dick Award has made finding readers a whole lot easier. The award “has opened a lot of doors,” she says. Related links: * An article in the Los Angeles Review of Books explores the book’s treatment of “Gender and the Apocalypse.” [Note: the article has spoilers]. * Meg Elison shares her thoughts on her blog. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite the odds, Meg Elison did it. First, she finished the book she wanted to write. Second, she found a publisher–without an agent. Third, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, a stunning achievement for a first-time author with a small, independent press. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Sybaritic Press, 2014) is set in the American West after an epidemic has killed all but a fraction of humanity. Among the survivors, men vastly outnumber women, setting in motion a desperate journey of survival for the eponymous midwife. To avoid the serial rape and enslavement that threatens all females in this male-dominated landscape, the midwife sheds her name and even her sexuality, presenting herself as a man and continuously changing her moniker to suit the circumstance. Communication falls apart too quickly for anyone to even know the name or nature of the illness that’s destroyed civilization and made childbirth a fatal event for female survivors. The midwife’s focus is on giving the few women she meets the hard-won power to prevent pregnancy. “I think the thing I wanted to come across most strongly was to explode notions of gender… And to really think about what your options would be like if you, like your grandmother, had no control over when you had children or how or by whom,” Elison says in her New Books interview. Elison was raised on stories about the apocalypse–the fire and brimstone kind. “I grew up in some pretty crazy evangelical churches, and they hammered on us about the end of days and the Book of Revelation, and it gave me nightmares, and it made always think about the fact that the end was nigh and that it was going to be bad, and I think that stuck with me my whole life even though I shed the ideological parts of it.” For the midwife, the apocalypse poses threats both dramatic and mundane. When not searching for food and a safe place to spend the night, she must negotiate the frustrating reality of spending time with people she doesn’t like. “I started thinking about what it would be like if the only people you could find were people you couldn’t stand, if they just irritated in you every way,” Elison says. “There’s nothing wrong with them and they’re not unsafe, you just don’t like being there. So I wanted to make a character who had to make choices between feeling safe in a group of people and feeling pissed off all the time.” Elison is grateful for the editors at Sybaritic Press, who published her unagented manuscript. “They’re very good editors and publishers,” she says. But inevitably, she’s had to do a lot of marketing herself. “It’s good because I’ve learned a lot about the business doing that and it’s not good because no one listens to a writer on her own.” Fortunately, the Philip K. Dick Award has made finding readers a whole lot easier. The award “has opened a lot of doors,” she says. Related links: * An article in the Los Angeles Review of Books explores the book’s treatment of “Gender and the Apocalypse.” [Note: the article has spoilers]. * Meg Elison shares her thoughts on her blog. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices