V&O: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda — Parenting Your Inner Baba Yaga
Julia and Victoria get very hungry talking about the trope-flipping, contemporary vampire novel Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
Tár (film)
Claire Kohda: "I wouldn’t change being mixed-race for anything" by Isabella Silvers (Mixed Messages)
A Vampire Hungry for Blood and Intimacy by JR Ramakrishnan (Electric Lit)
Recommendations:
Carmilla by Joseph Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen maria Machado
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
“Close Cover Before Striking” by Silvia Moreno Garcia in F(r)iction No. 21 The Unseen Issue
Sea Change by Gina Chung
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ugly Delicious on Netflix
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show)
Currently Obsessed:
Shōgun on Hulu
Heartbreak High season 2 on Netflix
Monkey Man (film)
You Had Me At Hello by ZBI (album)
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
The StoryGraph’s buddy read feature
