Tales from the Trunk
2021-09
Episodes
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
This time around, I had the pleasure of talking to Hugo-award-winning author and editor Elsa Sjunneson (@snarkbat)! Elsa reads an excerpt from her terrific currently-trunked novel, The Livelong Night, which launches us into a conversation about representation, trunking (the bad kind), disability, and her forthcoming memoir, Being Seen, which releases this October!
Things we mentioned this episode:
Worldcon 76
Burying your gays (trope)
Mad-Eye Moody
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The Book of Eli
Daredevil
The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant
Reviews of Being Seen from Kirkus and Booklist
Scream (TV show)
“I Belong Where the People Are: Disability & The Shape of Water," by Elsa Sjunneson
Children of a Lesser God
Me Before You
"The Home Front," my 9/11 essay
"Blind Women Get Married Too," by Elsa Sjunneson
RSD - Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Ready or Not
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Chair
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Exvangelicals
Beowulf, audiobook, translated by Seamus Heaney
Join us again next month, when my guests will be Rem Wigmore and Freya Marske!
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
This time around, we're joined once again by Sarah Hollowell (@sarahhollowell) whose debut, A Dark and Starless Forest comes out September 14th! Sarah reads an excerpt of her book that leads us into a fun conversation about the terrible faces that cats make, natural disasters, and probably some stuff about the book, too.
Things we mention in this episode:
The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
Tangled
The 12 Dancing Princesses
"Crow's Eye," by Sarah Hollowell
The geology of Indiana
The Airborne Toxic Event
Duck and cover
This Poison Heart, by Kalynn Bayron
The Ones We're Meant to Find, by Joan He
Each of Us a Desert, by Mark Oshiro
Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed
Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
Sarah's insta and website
Sarah Gailey
R. K. Duncan
Kate Lechler
Join us again in two weeks with my guest, Elsa Sjunneson!