341: Jewish Lesbian Vampires (with Samara Breger)

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by author Samara Breger, to talk about vampires: queer vampires, Jewish vampires, and reclaiming The Vampire.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of antisemitism, The Holocaust, eugenics, blood, homophobia/lesbophobia, misogyny, stalking, predatory relationships, animal death, sex, and death.

Guest

Samara Breger writes books about women in improbable circumstances falling in love. Before she started writing books, she worked in public radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. She is a proud News and Documentary Emmy loser. If you peek into her work history, you'll find a lot of stuff about sex, reproductive health, and queer people. Her new book, A Long Time Dead, is now available.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends the game Inscryption

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Transcript

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0:00.0	.
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0:29.0	Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends and folklore.
0:33.0	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:37.0	I'm Amanda and I'm Julia and we're so honored to be joined today by Samara Breaker
0:42.0	or Samara, welcome to the show.
0:44.0	Thank you for having me, I'm so excited to be here.
0:46.0	It's always a pleasure and would you mind just starting us off by telling the audience who you are, what you do, and then we'll get into things?
0:54.0	Sure, I'm Samara, I'm a writer and a performer and I live in New York.
0:59.0	And my sapphic vampire gothic a long time dead came out last month.
1:05.0	It did indeed.
1:07.0	If I recall correctly, the New York Times called it the best sapphic vampire novel since Carmilla.
1:12.0	They might have said something along those lines maybe.
1:15.0	Who can say really, you know, just the New York Times?
1:20.0	Just the New York Times.
1:21.0	The five copies that I purchased downstairs.
1:24.0	All in shadow boxes like my husband did when we got mentioned the New York Times.
1:28.0	Exactly.
1:29.0	I feel that vibe.
1:30.0	Incredible.
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