Podcasts about other betrayals

Opinions are like assholes, they say. Everybody has one. The subtext of that, is that you shouldn't show them to people. Well my guest and I don't hold back on ours this week. Robert Ottone joins me for a conversation about his debut novel for adults, The Vile Thing We Created, which is almost exactly one year old.  I loved it, which is more than either of us can say for the one-year old little boy that it is about. This novel skewers the impulse to procreation – presenting a horror story of parenthood that will make the child-free sweat and the happily en-familied nod sagely (though hopefully your child isn't a cosmic-horror menace. Robert and I wade into the controversy over not having children? We ask, how people summoj the courage to do it in such a frightening world, and we also hold forth on other topics, such as why most colleagues are boring and some ill-advised movie opinions. I blame Robert, I'm usually so shy and retiring. Seriously though, this is a great conversation. More disorganised and discursive than usual. Though for once, that is no bad thing. Enjoy! The Vile Thing We Created was published on April 18th 2023, by Hydra. Other books mentioned: The Triangle (2022), by Robert OttoneLess Than Zero (1985), by Bret Easton EllisLunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton EllisImperial Bedrooms (2010), by Bret Easton EllisSefira and Other Betrayals (2019), by John LanganWatchmen (1987), by Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsFilthy Creation (2023), by Caroline Hagood Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the Show.

Hey Cinners, John Langan joins us to talk about both 1985's FRIGHT NIGHT and 1987's THE LOST BOYS. John is the author the novels HOUSE OF WINDOWS and the Bram Stoker award winner THE FISHERMAN as well as the short story collections, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Sefira and Other Betrayals, Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies, Corpsemouth And Other Autobiographies. John is as nice and funny as he is talented. We had so much fun with him and we hope you do too!SHOW NOTES:Instagram: @johnlanganwriterhttps://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/john-langan.htmlhttps://us.amazon.com/stores/author/B003D1RJ4S/abouthttps://www.teemingbrain.com/interviews/interview-with-john-langan/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fright-night-1985https://ew.com/movies/lost-boys-35-years-later-interview/PLEASE FOLLOW US AND REVIEW!!:Subscribe to us on YouTube: @CINE-FULCUTSPODCASTFind us on INSTAGRAM: @cin.ful_cutsFind us on Spotify: spotify.link/ncvbbRYDmDbFind us on Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cine-ful-cuts/id1702441060Send us an e-mail why don't ya!: Cinefulcuts@gmail.comCo-Host: Shannon Bushmann - Montalbano (Instagram: @shannonvonbushmann)Co-Host: Sean O'Connor (Instagram: @seanoc32)Producer: Sean O'Connor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To kick off a new year of Talking Scared, I've gone and hooked us a big guest, with a whopper of a story. John Langan is the author of The Fisherman. It's one of the great works of supernatural fiction written this century, but its story doesn't end at its back-cover. The strange mythology of The Fisherman extends beyond, swimming further downstream, to pop its monstrous head above the surface in John's wider universe of short stories and novellas. In this special episode, we talk at length about The Fisherman – about the classic books, real-world legends and cultural beliefs that inspired it, and about the process of building a  whole new mythos. John is the poet-scholar of horror. This is the class you wish you'd taken in college.  Enjoy! Other books mentioned: House of Windows (2009), by John Langan“Mother of Stone”, in The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (2013), by John Langan“Bor Urus”, in Sefira and Other Betrayals (2019), by John LanganOur Share of Night (2023), by Mariana EnriquezThe Croning (2012), by Laird BarronThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (2013), by Laird BarronPet Sematary (1983), by Stephen King“The Monkey's Paw” (1902), by W. W. JacobsAbsolom, Absolom (1951), by William Faulkner“The Call of Cthulhu” (1928), by H.P. LovecraftThe Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1988), by Roberto Calasso“Development” (1889), by Robert BrowningIronweed (1983), by William KennedyCome Closer (2003), by Sara GranMotherless Child (2012), by Glen HirshbergScreams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022), edited by Ellen Datlow (contains “Glen Hirshberg's “Devil” and John Langan's “Bludzuger”)Furnace (2016), by Livia Llewelyn Join the Laird Barron Readalong Support Talking Scared on Patreon Visit the Talking Scared site Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show

Jenny divulges her top reads of 2019 and shares the top reads of sixteen other readers. All of us focus on books we read in 2019; they may or may not have been published in 2019. That's how regular readers work! If you listen past that section, there will also be some discussion of the Best of the Decade in reads and reading experiences.Thanks to all of you who participate, interact, and listen to the podcast! You have made this a marvelous year and decade.  Best wishes in the new year. The next episode will be all about reading goals, so feel free to share your 2020 reading goals with me and I might mention them.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 176: Best of 2019 with Jenny and Menagerie.Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify  Books Mentioned: Life and Fate by Vasily GrossmanCastle of Water by Dane KuckelbridgeLent by Jo WaltonFrankissstein by Jeanette WintersonAgainst Memoir by Michelle TeaBrute: Poems by Emily SkajaThe Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. RollinsHalal if You Hear Me edited by Safia Elhillo and Fatimah AsgharCan You Forgive Her? by Anthony TrolloppeThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettThe Way to the Sea by Caroline CramptonThe Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells Foundation by Isaac AsimovTu by Patricia GraceThe Last Act of Love by Cathy RentzenbrinkAll Among the Barley by Melissa HarrisonEast West Street by Philippe SandsThe Great Believers by Rebekah MakkaiLost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliThe Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel VasquezBirdie by Tracey LindbergThey Will Drown in Their Mother's Tears by Johannes AnyuruThe Museum of Modern Love by Heather RoseCantoras by Caroline de RobertisThe Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish by Katya ApekinaGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine HigdonThe Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro ArikawaMetro 2035 by Dmitry GlukhovskyIn the Distance by Hernan DiazMortality by Christopher HitchensTrain Dreams by Denis JohnsonConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Normal People by Sally RooneyGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukNobber by Oisin FaganWomen Talking by Miriam ToewsWhen Chickenheads Come Home To Roost by Joan MorganOur Women on the Ground edited by Zahra HankirThe Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan StradalSefira and Other Betrayals by John LanganStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiThe Book of Night Women by Marlon JamesInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFired Up by Andrew JohnstonThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngeloThe Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona EltahawyThis Tilting World by Colette Bellous Other Mentions:Jenny's Full Best of 2019 ListJenny's Best of the Decade List Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar reading at The StrandShedunnit Podcast Related Episodes:Episode 142 - Borders and Bails with Shawn MooneyEpisode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with Sara Episode 154 - Is If If with PaulaEpisode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars Episode 159 - Reading Doorways with LindyEpisode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth Episode 163 - Fainting Goats with Lauren Episode 166 - On Brand with Karen Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 173 - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle  Episode 174 - Cozy Holiday Reads and TBR Explode 4 Episode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion Hill Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

First things first: we have finally started a Patreon! We would like to give a special shoutout to S.M. Fedor, who has joined the Patreon at the $10 level. Find him on twitter at S_M_Fedor. If you’re interested in our Patreon, check it out over at patreon.com/ladiesofthefright. We would be thrilled to have you join us at any level, and we are offering cool rewards at every tier. The most exciting of which is our Patrons-only podcast, LOTF After Dark which is accessible to Patrons at every tier. We also have our first challenge going! When we hit our first 20 patrons, we’ll be doing a patrons-only giveaway! Alright, one last bit of “housekeeping” before we get on with the show: This week is Stoker Con! Mackenzie & I are in Grand Rapids this weekend. Make sure you look us up! We are on two panels: Friday 5/9 from 2:15pm-3:15pm Podcasting 101 for Librarians Day as panelists.  On Saturday 5/10 11am-12pm we are moderating Why Does Horror Matter? With Gabino Iglesias, Stephen Graham Jones, Kathryn McGee, and Becky Spratford—which we are also recording to air on the podcast. Show Notes: In this episode, we are thrilled to bring you our third Tropisode! Today’s episode is all about the Devil. As you know, with these episodes we invite a guest with some expertise on the trope we’re exploring. Today, we’re happy to welcome Bracken MacLeod to the show. We’ve brought Bracken onto the show because of his graduate studies (a million years ago) in philosophy and comparative religion, but also his own formative youth during the height of the Satanic Panic, he has a particular fondness for the character of the Devil. We think you’ll find his expertise valuable! Essential Devil Reading Paradise Lost by John Milton Lucifer: The Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg Demons edited by John Skipp Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan - the short story "At Home in Devil's House"  The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud - the novella "The Atlas of Hell" The Master in Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The History of the Devil - a play by Clive Barker Books of Blood by Clive Barker - the short story "Down Satan" Devil Movies Mentioned The Prophecy Angel Heart The Devil's Candy Find Bracken: Facebook | Twitter | Website Special thanks to our patrons, Bob Pastorella & S.M. Fedor!    

Tyler is back for the show notes and if you play your cards right I might also give you a free knee cap piercing.     What we are watching/reading   Tyler:  Alien 40th Anniversary Edition.  Check out ten reasons to buy it.  He is also really excited about John Langan's new collection Sefira and Other Betrayals. Mike is reading Nicole Cushing's Mirrors.  You can check out one of her fabulous weird stories, The Orchard of Hanging Trees on Pseudopod Episode 277.  He also is reading Whiskey Tales by Jean Rey.  Both of us flicked our beans about how great it is to have a favorite author.  Check out Wakefield Press a small press that specializes in translations.  Worde Horde publishes Langan and Cushing.  They are the best.   Dark Corners of the Web Darkest Night, its Bianural.  Hit us up on the FB group if you have any idea how to actually pronounce that word.  Tyler specifically mentioned the episode Happy Hollow Farms.  Essential Question:  Is American Mary making any specific claims about American views of self-expression? 1.  The Movie The Bad review comes from The Guardian.  Listen as we pretend to be stuffy British dudes from Manchester.  The Good review comes from IGN.  Its what you would expect from folks that like a movie about electively removing one's nipples. Also, both of us liked the movie a lot. 2.  The Theory Anya Stanley has a kick-ass article in Vague Visages that picks apart what the movie says about feminism, the female body, and self-expression.  Its pretty rad.   IndieWire has what is essentially a negative review of the movie but offers some interesting analysis with what the film attempts to do. LightSpeed Magazine has a pretty comprehensive if basic explanation of the different forms of body modification.  The boys talk about folks they knew that branded themselves.   3.  The Application. We ran out of time to really further expand on the application but there is an interesting article in BRNO Studies in English about the Canadian and American dichotomy in terms of American Psycho and American Mary. Sight and Sound has a pretty good bio piece about the Soska Sisters who wrote and directed the movie. Finally, Mike unpacks what a Mary Sue is and refuses to explain what flicking ones bean means.  Although he has agreed to get a tattoo of a hotdog on his neck.     Next Week Old Testament Horror and The Dibbuk Box.

Mary discusses the short story "Bloom" by John Langan, from his new collection "Sefira and Other Betrayals" published in April 2019 by Hippocampus Press

On this week’s Horror Podclass we are doing a deep dive into the brand new Blue-Ray release of the 2018 movie Overlord.  This movie has everything: Nazis, zombies, motorcycles with sidecars, explosions, and jumping out of airplanes.  It just doesn't really have much to say about the horrors of war or the nature of evil... but hey, that's OK.  It is still a really fun movie.  Plus, Tyler gives us a sneak peek at some of the cool features on the Blue-Ray disk. Connect with us Tyler and Mike at: The Horror Pod Class Facebook Group Signal Horizon on Facebook and Twitter Mike D on Goodreads Helpful Links: Click here to get your free two months of Shudder so you can check out Horror Noire!  Seriously, this is a must watch for Horror Pod Class fans! Mike and Tyler are both reading John Langan's latest collection, Sefira and Other Betrayals.  Excellent as always from John Langan! The Guardian: "War is Hell:  Overlord and the History of Battle Set Horror Movies" War is Boring: "The Best Military Horror Movies are Set Back Home" W. Scott Poole's excellent non-fiction exploration of horror, Wasteland:  The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror Mike went back and did some research about the racial integration of the US Army and sure enough, racially mixed small units were most definitely not present during WWII.  There was an entire Parachute Infantry Batallion, the 555th "Triple Nickel", made up of African-American soldiers.  They didn't see combat during WWII, but you can read more about their history during WWII, The Korean War, and their integration into the 82nd Airborne Division after the war which paved the way for that Division to be the first integrated division in the US Army. Next Week: POD PEOPLE!