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  • Book Tour 43: Sarah Pinsker – Haunt Sweet Home

    Book Tour 43: Sarah Pinsker – Haunt Sweet Home
    Oct 18 2024

    Show notes coming soon.

    If you have a few extra dollars, both Sarah and I would appreciate any donations you can make towards relief efforts in the areas of Appalachia affected by hurricane Helene. We highlighted the following organizations:

    BeLoved Asheville

    World Central Kitchen

    American Red Cross
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    33 m
  • Book Tour 42: T. Kingfisher – A Sorceress Comes To Call

    Book Tour 42: T. Kingfisher – A Sorceress Comes To Call
    Sep 20 2024

    We’re back, folks! And as promised, I’m joined this time around by none other than T. Kingfisher herself, who joins me to talk about her newest novel, A Sorceress Comes to Call, available right this very moment from fine booksellers everywhere.

    Things mentioned in this episode:

    DeviantArt

    “The Goose Girl”

    The Hamster Princess series, by Ursula Vernon

    Dracula, by Bram Stoker

    “Bluebeard”

    The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, by Florence Hartley

    Swordheart, by T. Kingfisher

    Magic: the Gathering

    Commander format

    M:tG Arena

    Behold: Humanity!, by Ralts Bloodthorne

    Warhammer

    Humans are space orcs (this may not be the original, but it’s what I could surface)

    Ursula’s bluesky, tumblr, and website

    Join us again in October, when I’ll be talking to Sarah Pinsker!
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    31 m
  • An Announcement

    An Announcement
    Jul 20 2024

    Hello, dear listeners!

    I wanted to give you all an update about the show. To whit: I’m taking a bit of a break. The last five seasons have been incredible, and season six has been and will continue to be.

    Tales from the Trunk is in no way ending. We will be back on September 20th, when I’ll be talking to T. Kingfisher.

    In the mean time, here are some of the things that I have been enjoying from the wider media landscape:

      • A podcast: Friends at the Table – their eighth season, Palisade, is coming to a close right now, and it has been a Ride.
    • A book: Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle – you already know how much I loved Camp Damascus, and it should come as no surprise that the good doctor’s follow-up is every bit as incredible.
    • A TV show: Hunter × Hunter (2011) – Just a fantastic shōnen anime.
    • And a musical twofer:
      • Chappel Roan – come on. I’m queer. She writes good pop hooks. Suggested tracks: “Pink Pony Club” and “My Kink is Karma”
      • Porter Robinson – if you like bouncy but also emotional EDM, give him a go. Suggested tracks: “Knock Yourself Out XD” and “Shelter”

    Thanks again for your support over the years, and I look forward to returning in two months with even more amazing interviews with incredible guests.
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  • Book Tour 41: Aliette de Bodard – Navigational Entanglements

    Book Tour 41: Aliette de Bodard – Navigational Entanglements
    Jul 5 2024

    This time around, it’s my delight to welcome to the show Aliette de Bodard! Aliette joins me to talk about her new novella, Navigational Entanglements, available July 30th, 2024, from TorDotCom Books!

    Things we mention in this episode:

    C dramas

    Heaven’s Official Blessing, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

    Xianxia

    Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

    “The Tutelary, the Assassin, and the Healer,” by Aliette de Bodard in I Want That Twink Obliterated

    Worldcon

    Sarahs Gailey and Hollowell

    Dead Boy Detectives and The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

    The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera

    Chronicles of Elantra, by Michelle Sagara

    Aliette’s bluesky, insta, website, and patreon
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    29 m
  • Episode 62: "Visibility" and Pride in Place 2020

    Episode 62: "Visibility" and Pride in Place 2020
    Jun 21 2024
    Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk. Listeners, it’s June, and ya boi is tired. I was going to try to scramble to get an interview scheduled, but then I remembered the name of a Shavuot workshop that a dear friend of the show attended last year: “What if we Rested?” Life has been nonstop for me for more than half a year now, so what if I rested? What if we all rested? Goodness knows that if you’re not a white cishet allo abled person, you need it. But also, I wanted to do something. So I’m bringing you something old and something—well, another old thing, actually, but one that hasn’t appeared here before. First, here is an essay that I wrote for Trans Day of Visibility a few years ago, and after that, a short collection of essays that first aired here in June of 2020. I hope you enjoy them. Visibility honestly i’ve been sitting on this for a grip and just not quite knowing how to fit the words together, but i’m tired, y’all. so, visibility. of trans people, specifically. it’s me. i’m trans people. it took me a long time to understand that about myself, and i didn’t come to it on my own. i needed help. i needed to see that “trans” was a word that could describe me. when i was little, i knew that i was weird. that i didn’t fit. that i didn’t act like the other little boys. that there were parts of me that i had to learn to hide to keep myself safe. that i couldn’t talk about with anyone because i didn’t have the language to capture it. when i was in ninth grade, one of our history teachers came out as trans. we had an assembly where an administrator told us all that our teacher was a man now, that his pronouns were he/him, probably that misgendering him wouldn’t be tolerated. but he didn’t look like me. i had a distant friend in high school who came out as trans. he didn’t look like me, either. years before she came out as trans, my closest friend at school told me that she was bisexual. she was the first bi person i knew i knew. we would go to goth clubs and she would make out with people while i danced or stood against the wall and nodded my head along. even before we were really friends, i was drawn to her, wanted to be her friend more than anything. we went through a lot of hard times together, but she didn’t look like me. she pierced my ears after high school. four holes i carry to this day, a little part of her with me all the time even though we haven’t seen each other in a decade. in college, my friend asked that we use neopronouns for them, then they/them. the neopronouns were hard. we were young. i knew so many queer people in college, so many trans people. none of them looked like me. that same friend came out to me and my spouse as genderqueer sometime before our wedding. i think that was the first time i’d heard the word. but i didn’t know it was something that could belong to me. not yet. i “came out” to a friend one summer night while i was in college. we were driving to get snacks after a day of endless quaker committee meetings. i said that i’d only ever fallen for women before, but that i was open to the possibility that wouldn’t always be the case. i was in my first actual relationship then. years later, my ex came out as nonbinary. i didn’t think about that coming-out conversation again for a long time. i came out as bi to my cat while i was driving her to the vet for dental surgery. she was upset because she was in the car, but i knew that she was someone i could trust with my “secret.” it wasn’t for another few weeks that i came out to my spouse and a few of my friends. i used to think of outness as a binary, even though it’s always been a spectrum. i’m out to some of my coworkers, mostly other queers, but not others. it’s not worth the discomfort. or it’s choosing the lesser of two levels of discomfort. one time, my boss at the time said “everyone here is straight” in a meeting. he wore a rainbow strap on his apple watch in june. he’d like you to know that he’s an ally. i felt deeply uncomfortable about not saying anything, but also deeply uncomfortable about the idea of saying something. after i left that job, a former coworker confided in me that this boss pulled some classic cishet white dude stuff with them. i felt grateful that i hadn’t outed myself in that meeting long ago. i found a copy of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer at a bookstore the same summer that i left that job and bought it on the spot. i just thought it was neat. i knew that i needed it. i read that book in a single sitting. i’ve re-read it more times than i can count since then. Maia didn’t look like me, but i still saw myself in eir experiences in a way that i hadn’t experienced before. e was queer. queer as in weird. queer as in didn’t get social expectations for eir assigned gender. queer as in, well, queer. a month or two later, i got a tattoo of a...
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    27 m
  • Book Tour 40: Jay Wolf – The Shepard in Shadow

    Book Tour 40: Jay Wolf – The Shepard in Shadow
    Jun 7 2024

    We’re kicking off Pride this year with none other than my good friend Jay Wolf! Jay reads a snippet about their best worst boys, Egan and Petrel before we get to talking about their newest book as M. Daniel McDowell, The Shepherd in Shadow, which releases June 28th!

    Things we mention in this episode:

    Valerie Valdes

    The Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake

    Inkfort Press Self-Publishing Derby

    Bringer of the Scourge, by M. Daniel McDowell

    Glen Cook

    Fritz Leiber

    Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

    The Colour of Magic and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

    Beating Hearts & Battle Axes

    New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine

    Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo

    M.E. Morgan

    X-Men ‘97

    Forged in Fire

    Jay’s socials and M. Daniel McDowell’s socials
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    53 m
  • Episode 61: Meg Elison – Hemet

    Episode 61: Meg Elison – Hemet
    May 17 2024

    This time around, I’m thrilled to welcome to the show Meg Elison! Meg reads to us from the start of their trunked novel, Hemet, which leads us into a wonderful conversation about a whole host of topics, including her own artist’s statement on spooky stuff.
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    52 m
  • Book Tour 39: Victor Manibo – Escape Velocity

    Book Tour 39: Victor Manibo – Escape Velocity
    May 3 2024

    This time around, it’s my delight to welcome back to the show Victor Manibo! After a bit of catching up, we get into Victor’s new book, Escape Velocity, which releases later this month from Erewhon Books!

    Things we mention in this episode:

    The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo

    Victor’s first episode

    “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe

    The Fall of the House of Usher (show)

    Gravity (2013)

    Funeral and Neon Bible, by Arcade Fire

    COWBOY CARTER and RENAISSANCE, by Beyoncé

    Shōgun (TV series) based on the novel by James Clavell

    Game of Thrones

    Our Share of Nights, by Mariana Enriquez

    ICFA

    Victor’s website, twitter, insta, tiktok, fb, and substack

    Stick around next time when my guest will be Meg Elison!
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    41 m
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