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Erica talks about recent library finds and Kelly interviews author and editor Rob Costello about short story collections, horror, and queer reads.
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Books Discussed My Lady Jane (on Prime) Cat + Gamer by Wataru Nadatani A Certain October by Angela Johnson A Sign of Affection, Vol. 2 by Suu Morishita Space Trash Vol. 1 by Jenn Woodall We Mostly Come Out of Night edited by Rob Costello Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Looking for Love in All The Haunted Places by Claire Kann The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick The Marbury Lens and Passenger by Andrew Smith All These Bodies by Kendare Blake Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters Monstrous Affections edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke Night of the Living Queers edited by Shelly Page and Alex Brown Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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