218 – Rachel Harrison & Vampirism is What You Make It

Things are heating up as we approach Halloween.

I’m joined by a good friend of Talking Scared – Rachel Harrison – to talk about the hot kind of immortality

Her new novel, So Thirsty, does much more than that though. It weighs the weaponization of beauty culture, it asks how women can navigate a world in which youth seems to be everything, and it illustrates the sheer social awkwardness of immortality.

Plus – it prompts a frank reckoning with just how badly I would cope in an orgy. 

This is a fun episode, a deep episode, the perfect kind of bookish sign off for a few weeks whilst I take a break. And maybe a good hour of respite from the manic news cycle.

Enjoy.

Other books mentioned:

• The Return (2020), by Rachel Harrison
• Cackle (2021), by Rachel Harrison
• Such Sharp Teeth (2022), by Rachel Harrison
• Black Sheep (2023), by Rachel Harrison
• Nestlings (2023), by Nat Cassidy
• Reluctant Immortals (2022), by Gwendolyne Kiste
• The Militia House (2023), by John Milas
• The Unsuitable (2020), by Molly Pohlig

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