Kristen is joined by author Kelly J. Ford to discuss her new Southern noir novel Real Bad Things, the maddening minefield of apologizing as a woman, and why we’re in a golden age for writing weird queer shit.

Real Bad Things is available now wherever books are sold!

Also mentioned in the episode:

Kelly’s debut novel Cottonmouths

Crime fiction author Cheryl A. Head (who Kristen interviewed back in 2020)

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Midsommar

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (and the Apple TV+ adaptation)

Find out more about Kelly on her website, Instagram, and Twitter.

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