We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making.
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Media mentioned
Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/
Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca.com/about
Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Cuckoo. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable
Hailey Piper, https://www.haileypiper.com/
Joe Koch, https://horrorsong.blog/
Suzan Palumbo, https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/
Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feeding-hannibal-janice-poon/1123457647
Tender Is the Flesh https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tender-Is-the-Flesh/Agustina-Bazterrica/9781982150921
On the Line: New Gay Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Line-New-Gay-Fiction/dp/0895940493
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
The Borrowers
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Rosemary’s Baby
Thomas Trion, The Other
The Haunting of Hill House
Gerard Boesche, Feral
The Stepford Wives
The Exorcist
John Updike
John Cheever
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man, A Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace
David’s favourite contemporary queer/trans+ horror writers
Eric LaRocca
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Hailey Piper
Joe Koch
Suzan Palumbo
Adam Pottle
Allison Rumfitt
Lee Mandelo
- Kingfisher
A.C. Wise
Sam J. Miller
Ashley Deng
Jordan Shiveley
Nino Cipri
Chuck Tingle
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