The Brookhants Song

Ep 11: Pages 570-617 & an Interview with emily danforth

Join Lark and Alex for the final, extra-long episode of Plain Bad Podcasters. We discuss the chapters "Elaine Brookhants, Socialite and Philanthropist, Dies at Age 81" through "The Red Carpet After" and for our final Deep Dive, a long conversation with the author herself, emily danforth! We talk about our experience making the podcast and wrap up with some book and podcast recommendations. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, here are the major markers: * Interview with emily danforth starts at 57 minutes 45 seconds * Book and podcast recommendations start at 2 hours 50 minutes 50 seconds Those recommendations are: * Alex * Books * Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036538-gideon-the-ninth] * The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young [https://michelleyoungwriter.com/theartspy] * You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White [https://andrewjosephwhite.com/you-werent-meant] * Model Home by Rivers Solomon [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205363963-model-home] * Anything by Stephen Graham Jones, but especially The Only Good Indians [https://www.stephengrahamjones.com/the-only-good-indians/] and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter [https://www.stephengrahamjones.com/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter/] * Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790870-bury-your-gays] * Anything by N. K. Jemesin [https://nkjemisin.com/] * Anything by Kate Alice Marshall [https://katemarshallbooks.com/about/] * Podcasts * The Locked Tomb Podcast [https://open.spotify.com/show/0N0OiQFVYM0bI8tTdJgUrT] * Worst Bestsellers [https://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/] * If Books Could Kill [https://open.spotify.com/show/2khJBoF73ujIATWUFtSxLD] * I Don’t Even Own a Television [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNV6i2c5fN__0mQpJbcp9uQ] * Bad Gays [https://badgayspod.com/] * Old Gods of Appalachia [https://www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/] * Lark * The Magnus Archives [https://rustyquill.com/show/the-magnus-archives/] podcast * emily danforth * mentioned the book The Secret History by Donna Tartt [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History]

Ep 10: Pages 503-569 & Female-Driven Queer Horror Movies

Join us as Lark and Alex discuss the chapters "Updates from the Set of The Happenings at Brookhants as Told Online" through "Providence" and then take a Deep Dive into two female-driven queer horror movies. This episode's bibliography is: * "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather [https://cather.unl.edu/writings/shortfiction/ss006]   * The Claudine Novels by Collette [https://archive.org/details/claudinenovels0000cole_l2n3]   * "Both Ways" by Carmen Maria Machado [https://www.autostraddle.com/in-queer-horror-anthology-it-came-from-the-closet-carmen-maria-machado-considers-jennifers-body/]   * Six Reasons to Stop What You're Doing and Watch "Lyle" | Autostraddle [https://www.autostraddle.com/six-reasons-to-stop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-lyle-251177/]

Ep 9: Pages 458-502 & Symbolism in PBH

Join us as Lark and Alex discuss the chapters "Finally, Someone Tends to Those Fucking Plants" through "Apple Bruise" and then take a Deep Dive into the yellow jackets and other symbolic elements. This episode's bibliography is: * How to Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39933.How_to_Read_Literature_Like_a_Professor] * The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov with notes by Alfred Appel, Jr. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7606.The_Annotated_Lolita?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Q8H6nx9ynE&rank=1]

The Brookhants Song

A stand-alone recording of the Brookhants song. Ostensibly as a bonus, but mostly because we're stupid proud of it.

Ep 8: Pages 407-456 & the Brookhants song!

Join us as Lark and Alex discuss the chapters "Road Apples" through "A Tower Tour, A Carpet Picnic, A Sound in the Night" and record the Brookhants song on ukulele and accordion!