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On the Shelf for November 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 327

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On the Shelf for November 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 327 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Setting up context for this month’s fiction episode
  • Additions to the website
  • Progress on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project book
  • Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
    • Pelliccia, Hayden. 1995. “Ambiguity against Ambiguity: Anacreon 13 Again” in Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 20: 23-34.
    • Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos” in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 40, Fasc. 1/2: 132-137.
    • Petropoulos, J.C.B. 1993. “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 97: 43-56.
    • Devereux, George. 1970. “The Nature of Sappho's Seizure in Fr. 31 LP as Evidence of Her Inversion” in The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1: 17-31.
    • Lardinois, André. 1994. “Subject and Circumstance in Sappho's Poetry” in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 124: 57-84.
    • Most, Glenn W. 1995. “Reflecting Sappho” in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 40: 15-38.
    • Skinner, M.B. 1989. “Sapphic Nossis” in Arethusa 22:5-18.
    • Blondell, Ruby and Sandra Boehringer. 2014. “Revenge of the Hetairistria: The Reception of Plato’s Symposium in Lucian’s Fifth DIalogue of the Courtesans.” Arethusa 47: 231-64.
    • Book Shopping
      • The A to Z of Charles II’s London 1682
      • The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670
      • Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
        • No Love for an Outlaw by Kerri Reeves
        • Twin Flames of Namwon: The Reimagined Love Story of Chunhyang and Cheong by Velis Aenora
        • Neon Nights by William Ellison
        • Raised for the Sword by Aimée
        • The Salvage by Anbara Salam
        • A Lady for a Highwayman (from Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins
        • My Mother's Spear by Ishtar Watson
        • Phoenix (Intertwined Souls #9) by Mary Dee
        • Ophelia by S.M. Namkoong
        • Between Two Silences by Shanon O'Brien
        • The Secret War (Hattie James #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller
        • The Duke by Anna Cowan
        • My Darling Clementine (Clementine #1) by Genta Sebastian
        • Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko
        • Other Titles of Interest
          • The Fault Mirror by Catherine Fearns
          • As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel
          • What I’ve been reading
            • Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear
            • A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
            • Murderbot Series (various titles) by Martha Wells
            • Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
            • Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
            • This month we interview Anbara Salam and talk about:
              • What grounds a story in a specific place and time?
              • Isolation, claustrophobia, and “things that should be gone but aren’t” as the essence of gothics
              • Researching queer sexuality in the mid-20th century
              • Exploring sapphic longing
              • The importance of not making the central conflict about queerness
              • The Salvage by Anbara Salam
              • Belladona by Anbara Salam

                • A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

                Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

                • Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
                • Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
                • RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
                • Twitter: @LesbianMotif
                • Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
                • The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

                  • Links to Heather Online

                  • Website: http://alpennia.com
                  • Email: Heather Rose Jones
                  • Mastodon: @[email protected]
                  • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
                  • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

                    • Links to Anbara Salam Online

                    • Website: anbarasalam.com
                    • Instagram: @anbarasalam
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