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)

• Boys Love/Ampliverse reaction to ZB1’s “Sweat” MV

• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

• The StoryGraph’s buddy read feature