This week we’re talking with Young Adult author and children’s librarian Hal to talk about hir new book, vampires, monstrosity, the Old Internet, and the publishing landscape.
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Media mentioned
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https://www.tumblr.com/gatheringbones
Books/Literature
Small changes over long periods of time https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/small-changes-long-periods-time/
Failure to Comply https://www.featherproof.com/catalog/failure-to-comply-sarah-cavar
Dead Collections https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678855/dead-collections-by-isaac-fellman/
Carmilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla
Peeps, Scott Westerfeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeps_(novel)
Little F (formerly Little Faggot) https://www.feministpress.org/books-overflow/litte-f
Mortal Companion, Patrick Califia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/620928.Mortal_Companion
The Fist of the Spider Woman https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/F/Fist-of-the-Spider-Woman
Mermaid in Chelsea Creek https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mermaid-in-chelsea-creek
Cold, Mariko Tamaki https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250831569/cold/
Read at Your Own Risk https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250323354/readatyourownrisk/
It Better Be Worth the Trip – First gay YA novel (1969) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Get_There._It_Better_Be_Worth_the_Trip
The Outsiders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel)
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_(Anderson_novel)
Looking for Alaska, John Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska
Books by Raina Telgemeier
Books by Svetlana Chmakova
Books by Tiffany Jackson
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales https://www.nathanhaleauthor.com/
We Are Palestinian https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are-Palestinian/Reem-Kassis/9781623717254
These Olive Trees https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703283/these-olive-trees-by-aya-ghanameh/
Hilwa’s Gifts https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774226/hilwas-gifts-by-safa-suleiman-illustrated-by-anait-semirdzhyan/
Movies
Hackers (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
Dracula’s Daughter (1936) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027545/
Nosferatu (2024) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/
Daughters of Darkness (1971) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067690
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874
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