March 2022

Hey sickos! Here’s what the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction has been up to in the month of March 2022:

• I was a guest on Kurt Schiller’s podcast Parents Just Don’t Understand to talk about Whisper of the Heart:

• We released a new Rite Gud episode on the problem TV Tropes and the geek hoarding instinct with the wonderful YouTuber Lola Sebastian.

• For Patreon subscribers, we released a new Book Club episode about Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters.

Recommended Reading

• Karlo Yeager Rodriguez has a haunting short story called “Vanishing” out in Seize the Press

• Lisa Mounzer writes about Translating Garbage in The Paris Review: “...Moral purpose is to art what eggs are to a cake. If you can taste them or smell them or see little scrambly bits of them infiltrating the sponge, then this is a failed cake, and eating it is not treat but punishment.”

• Peter Counter writes about Horror, Community, and the Window of Empathy: “Violence is stylized and defanged in our popular culture to the point that horrific actions, like shooting human beings with guns, become almost quotidian.”

Recommended Listening

A song about the most desirable man who ever lived: David Lee Roth.