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March 2023

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March 2023

Raquel S Benedict
Apr 1, 2023
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Hey sickos! Here’s what the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction has been up to in March 2023:

  • We talked to the good Andrew Sullivan about gentrified horror

  • We talked to Simon McNeil about the financial realities of being a writer

  • And we released a bonus episode about The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Recommended reading

Unsettling Futures has a terrific piece about the sterility of contemporary speculative fiction:

Unsettling Futures
Genre writing, show don't tell, and what actually sells
I’m about a third of the way through Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, a book I picked up at the library on impulse. It’s far too early to say whether I like it or not but I’m fascinated. One of the things I’ve been trying to do over the last few years, in fits and starts, is to read more what might be considered mainstream literary fiction, contemporary fic…
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3 months ago · 21 likes · 7 comments · Matthew Claxton

And WIRED wrote a scathing article on Brandon Sanderson and it made a lot of nerds real mad.

Recommended listening

Albert Hammond Jr, “More to Life”

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