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episode 11: Megan Milks

Episode Summary

A conversation with Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories.

Episode Notes

I talk with Megan Milks about everything from what it was like to publish four books in 2021 (!?!) to writing about pop culture, queerness, bodies and shame. 

The four books Megan Milks published in 2021: 

• Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
• Slug and Other Stories
• Tori Amos Bootleg Webring (Remember the Internet #2)
• We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (co-edited with Marisa Crawford)

Some of the works/writers/etc. mentioned in this episode: 

• Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl 
• Samuel Delany
• Tori Amos
• Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• Vivek Shraya's She of the Mountains
• Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
• Jeanne Thornton, including Summer Fun
• Kathy Acker
• Dodie Bellamy
• Queen's song "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl
• Mildred Pierce zine
• Somewhere in Time (film)
• Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House
• Julietta Singh's No Archive Will Restore You

The episode transcript will be uploaded in the not-too-distant future. (Sorry!)

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