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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