In this episode I spoke with Rainie Oet about their recent publication Glorious Veils of Diane.

Content warning: We talk a lot about blood and some about self-harming

Rainie Oet is a nonbinary writer and game designer, former Editor-in-Chief of Salt Hill Journal, and the author of Glorious Veils of Diane (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021), as well as two other books: Porcupine in Freefall and Inside Ball Lightning. They have an MFA in Poetry from Syracuse University, where they were awarded the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction.

• Rainie's website
• Rainie's Twitter
• Go buy Glorious Veils of Diane
• Rainie's Inside Ball Lightning
• Rainie's Porcupine in Freefall

Artists, books, films, games etc. mentioned in this episode:

• Diane Arbus
• Blood elemental in D&D
• Serena Perrone's "In Our Cinematic Lives"
• Ladybird, film
• David Lynch movies
• Collected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert which includes the translated Hermes, Dog and Star.
• "The Little Box" by Vasko Popa
• Chase Berggrun's R E D
  • My interview with Chase about R E D
• Dragula, TV Show
• 최호소 HOSO Terra Toma, drag performer
• Yume Nikki, indie game
• Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood series
• Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

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