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On this very special Unlikeable Female Characters, Kristen, Layne, and Wendy say goodbye (for now) with a look back at their favorite episodes and what they’ve learned in four years of being professional bitches on the internet.
Favorite episodes in case you missed them:

Episode 11: Mediocre White Men

Episode 24: Anniversary Sexpisode

Bonus Episode: Jonathan Mallory Davis

Episode 56: I Hate Men

Episode 65: Megan Abbott

Episode 69: Rachel Harrison

Episode 73: Sara Gran

Episode 79: Young Rich Widows

Episode 99: Wanda Morris


Also mentioned in this episode:


Buzzfeed article about women writing men

Netflix movie Do Revenge


Amazon Prime series The Rings of Power



Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

Netflix series Wednesday


Meghan Markle’s *Archetypes* podcast



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Wendy welcomes Wanda M. Morris to discuss her new historical thriller Anywhere You Run, what it takes to make the past come alive on the page, and finding joy and hope in dark books (and darker times).
Anywhere You Run is available now wherever books are sold!
Also mentioned in the episode:

Wanda’s debut novel All Her Little Secrets


The official Spotify playlist for Anywhere You Run



Find out more about Wanda on her website, Instagram, and Twitter.
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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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Layne welcomes Courtney Summers to the show for a chat about her harrowing new novel I'm the Girl, the significance of writing about girls who are super gay for each other, and how to hype yourself (and your work) without apology.
You can buy I’m the Girl now, as well as Courtney’s previous books The Project, Sadie, All the Rage, This is Not a Test, Fall for Anything, Some Girls Are, and Cracked Up to Be.
Find out more about Courtney on her website, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Layne talks with Ashley Winstead about her absolutely badass new novel The Last Housewife, the problem of female pleasure under the patriarchy, and how she stays sane by toggling between thrillers and romantic comedies.
The Last Housewife is available now!
Also mentioned in the episode:

Ashley’s other books In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Fool Me Once



The Cut’s exposé on the Sarah Lawrence sex cult


Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood


Justine by the Marquis de Sade and the movie Quills



Find out more about Ashley on her website, Instagram, or Twitter.
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Layne’s celebrating spooky season early with feminist horror author Gwendolyn Kiste! Tune in for their chat about Gwendolyn’s feminist as hell Dracula meets Jane Eyre mashup Reluctant Immortals, why women are so good at controlling our murderous urges, and what makes horror the ideal genre for rule-breaking, rage-fueled fiction.
Reluctant Immortals is out now, as are Gwendolyn’s previous books Boneset & Feathers, The Rust Maidens, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe.
Also mentioned in the episode:


Dracula by Bram Stoker


Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë


Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House


Angela Carter, author of The Bloody Chamber


The Babadook


Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked by Christa Carmen


To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

Yellowjackets


Find out more about Gwendolyn on her website, Instagram, or Twitter.
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