Jewish Lesbian Vampires w/ Samara Breger

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

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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

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	M.
0:05.0	The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:33.5	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:37.0	I'm Amanda.
0:37.5	And I'm Amanda.
0:38.4	And I'm Julia.
0:41.9	And we're so honored to be joined today by Samara Breaker.
0:43.3	Samara, welcome to the show.
0:44.8	Thank you for having me.
0:46.1	I'm so excited to be here.
0:47.5	It's always a pleasure.
0:54.2	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.
1:01.4	Sure. I'm Samara. I'm a writer and a performer, and I live in New York. And my Sapphic vampire gothic, a long time dead, came out last month. It did indeed. If I recall
1:07.9	correctly, the New York Times called it the best sapphic vampire novel since Carmilla.
1:12.7	They might have said something along those lines. Maybe.
1:18.2	Who can say, really? You know, just the New York Times.
1:20.9	The five copies that I purchased downstairs say. All in shadow boxes like my husband did when we got mentioned in the New York Times. Yeah, yeah, I feel that. I feel that vibe. Incredible. Well, can you tell us a little bit about the novel and then we'll get into the heart of what we want to talk about today? Sure. So it's kind of an old school Gothic horror. It takes place from 1937 to 35 years from that point. And it is about these two people,
1:49.8	one of whom was a vampire for almost two centuries. Her name is Rochene. And one is Poppy. She was
1:56.0	just turned. And it's about their romance and their pasts and a big found family that they're part of in Victorian London.
2:06.5	And it's decadent and exciting and a little bit scary and a little bit gory.
2:11.3	And it was fun to write and I hope it's fun to read.
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