S10E06 – Tracey Norman

S10E06 – Tracey Norman

I was so pleased to have folklorist, author, and playwright Tracey Norman join me this month to chat about Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Carter’s twist on familiar tales dovetails nicely with Tracey’s work as a folklore researcher and author....

Summer Reading 2026

I do realize the last of these was in February, but I had a book to finish on deadline and, well, there just hasn’t been time. I have realized after completing the second very heavily researched, nonfiction book that when I come off the work bender that these two...
S10E05 – mk zariel

S10E05 – mk zariel

Poet and anarchist mk zariel (it/its) joined me to talk about the magically queer classic The F*ggots & Their Friends Between Revoltions. A fairy tale for adults that still rings true, fortunately and unfortunately, in our own time. mk and I discuss the politics...
S10E04 – Tamsin Davis-Langley

S10E04 – Tamsin Davis-Langley

A huge thank you to Tamsin Davis-Langley for jumping in to save me from a last minute scheduling disaster (of my own doing). It was an enormous pleasure to talk with her about Jake Stratton-Kent’s Geosophia. The two-volume work spans a breadth of thought and practice...
S10E03 – Lisa McSherry

S10E03 – Lisa McSherry

Previous guest, Lisa McSherry, joined me to talk about the pagan classic, Ted Andrew’s Animal Speak. Despite a million copies being sold and Ted Andrews being on the wall of fame at Llewellyn, I had never read it. We talked about Andrews’s book in context of writing,...