S4 Ep. 2: We're in a Scary Movie, and It's Called 2020: emily m. danforth and Laura van den Berg Discuss Literary Horror and Our Upcoming Election

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In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan talk to novelist emily m. danforth and short story writer Laura van den Berg. danforth discusses her newly released sapphic-gothic horror comedy Plain Bad Heroines and how she reclaims negative and othering portrayals of lesbian vampires and queer monsters in the novel. Then, van den Berg shares her acclaimed new story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears and talks about how the pandemic and the Trump presidency has inspired her fiction.

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This episode was produced by Andrea Tudhope, Emily Standlee and Mary Henn.

Selected readings:

emily m. danforth

• Plain Bad Heroines
• The Miseducation Of Cameron Post

Laura van den Berg

• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
• The Isle of Youth
• What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
• Find Me
• The Third Hotel

Others:

• The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
• Rebecca by Dame Daphne du Maurier
• Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
• Stephen King
• The Elementals by Michael McDowell
• Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix
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Television:

• Get Out, film
• Lovecraft Country (HBO)
• Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire, film
• The Ring, film
• Beetlejuice, film
• The Others, film

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