No Body, No Crime with Kelly J. Ford Unlikeable Female Characters

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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