This time around, I had the pleasure of talking to Hugo-award-winning author and editor Elsa Sjunneson (@snarkbat)! Elsa reads an excerpt from her terrific currently-trunked novel, The Livelong Night, which launches us into a conversation about representation, trunking (the bad kind), disability, and her forthcoming memoir, Being Seen, which releases this October!

Things we mentioned this episode:

Worldcon 76

Burying your gays (trope) 

Mad-Eye Moody 

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

The Book of Eli 

Daredevil 

The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant 

Reviews of Being Seen from Kirkus and Booklist 

Scream (TV show)

“I Belong Where the People Are: Disability & The Shape of Water," by Elsa Sjunneson

Children of a Lesser God 

Me Before You 

"The Home Front," my 9/11 essay

"Blind Women Get Married Too," by Elsa Sjunneson

RSD - Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Ready or Not 

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Chair 

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

Exvangelicals 

Beowulf, audiobook, translated by Seamus Heaney

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Rem Wigmore and Freya Marske!