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BLOODY BOOK CLUB • Interview with Emily M. Danforth (Plain Bad Heroines Author)
BLOODY BOOK CLUB • Interview with Emily M. Danforth (Plain Bad Heroines Author)
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2021
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Podcast episode
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To coincide with World Book Day, a bonus episode interview with the author of Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (The Miseducation of Cameron Post), out today in the UK! Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Described by its author as "Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Blair Witch Project x lesbians". We discuss Emily's love of horror, the films that inspired this book, Mary MacLane, unrealiable narrators, the burden of likeability and so much more. This interview is totally SPOILER-FREE. Plain Bad Heroines is out now in the UK.***The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.ukFollow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon.Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe
Released:
Mar 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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