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Tales from the Trunk
Tales from the Trunk
Tales from the Trunk features interviews with and abandoned stories from science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors.
- 2 hours 13 minutesEpisode 60: Ivy Fox – Strapped
In addition to the regular strong language, this episode carries content warnings for: reclaimed gay slurs; a non-graphic depiction and discussion of non-consensual sex; depictions of consensual violence; and discussions of attempted suicide, medical trauma, experiences of psyche wards, descriptions of psychosis, forcible medication, restraint, experiences of homelessness, alcoholism, and body horror. The non-consensual sex and the consensual violence are both depicted in the reading, which is 24 minutes long, and there is some further discussion of the events from the reading following it. Perhaps even more so than usual, listener discretion is advised.
This time around, it is my complete gremlin pleasure to welcome to the show Ivy Fox! Together, we perform the entirety of her play, Strapped, which leads us into a wide-ranging conversation that touches on collaborative art, anime girls, furry music, mental health, and so much more. Seriously, this episode is over two hours long. We just kept talking!
Things we mention this episode:
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, by Samine Nosrat
“Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Stone Soup
Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault
Warrior Cats series, by Erin Hunter
All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks
Conflict is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman
Voidreckon, by Mittsies
Techdog 1-7, by Patricia Taxxon
I WANT TO LOVE AGAIN, by doefriends
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Ivyfoxart [at] gmail [dot] com, Ivy’s cohost and ko-fi
19 April 2024, 6:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesBook Tour 38: John Wiswell – Someone You Can Build a Nest In
This time around it is my absolute delight to welcome John Wiswell back to the show to talk about his debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, which just released this very week! We talk about John’s favorite bits both in and no longer in the book, along with conversation about language, games, and a surprise musical performance!
Things mentioned in this episode:
“D.I.Y.” by John Wiswell
“Open House on Haunted Hill” and its Japanese cover
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Starred review in The Library Journal
“This is Not a Wardrobe Door,” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
The Arcadia Project trilogy, by Mishell Baker
Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle
Holly, by Stephen King
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Friends at the Table Balatro stream
Twilight Mirage and Spring in Hieron soundtracks
John’s twitter, bluesky, insta, patreon, and substack
Escape Velocity, by Victor Manibo
5 April 2024, 6:00 am - 1 hour 21 minutesEpisode 59: Laura Blackwell – "Poor Prisoners"
This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome longtime friend of the show Laura Blackwell! Laura reads to us from her very very trunked story, “Poor Prisoners,” which leads us into a wide-ranging discussion of things we wish we’d learned sooner, writers whose work we admire, and kindness to our past selves.
Things we mention in this episode:
All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks
The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley
Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles Homers
The Aeneid, by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Translation State and the Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan
Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz
Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey
The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, Yellow Jessamine, and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling
She Walks in Shadows, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles
Beneath the Rising, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed
System Collapse, by Martha Wells
Edenville, by Sam Rebelein
Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle
Death Note manga, netflix, and anime
Laura’s website, bluesky, twitter, insta, mastodon
Join me next month when I’ll be talking to John Wiswell and Ivy Fox
15 March 2024, 6:00 am - 28 minutes 49 secondsBook Tour 37: A.D. Sui – The Dragonfly Gambit
To open this show’s sixth season, it is my total delight to welcome A.D. Sui to talk about her forthcoming novella, The Dragonfly Gambit, available later this year!
Things we mention in this episode:
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:shaking_eyes:
Even Though I Knew the End book tour episode
Anna’s twitter, insta, bluesky, and website
1 March 2024, 6:00 am - 30 minutes 53 secondsBook Tour 36: Jo Miles – Ravenous State
This time around, to close out season 5 of Tales from the Trunk, I’m thrilled to welcome Jo Miles to talk about the excellent conclusion to their Gifted of Brennex trilogy, Ravenous State!
Things we mention this episode:
Worldcon 76Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee
Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
ART and Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells
Starling House, by Alix E. Harrow
System Collapse, by Martha Wells
Warped State and Dissonant State, by Jo Miles
Jo’s mailing list, bluesky, insta, and mastodon
16 February 2024, 6:00 am - 34 minutes 31 secondsBook Tour 35: Premee Mohamed – The Butcher of the Forest
Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome back to the show Premee Mohamed! We talk about her new novella, The Butcher of the Forest, out February 27th from Tor.com books, and then feed something new to the trunk.
Things we mention this episode:
The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer
The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Thursday Next books, by Jasper Fforde
The Siege of Burning Grass, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and We Speak Through the Mountain, by Premee Mohamed
The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man’s Wife, by Premee Mohamed
“The General’s Turn,” by Premee Mohamed in The Deadlands
Mysterious Galaxy event with John Wiswell, on February 28th 2024
Someone you Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell
The Two Doctors Górski, by Isaac Fellman
The Vanished Birds and The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez
Premee’s bluesky, insta, patreon, and website
Stick around next week, when I’ll be talking to Jo Miles!
9 February 2024, 6:00 am - 7 minutes 39 seconds2023 Awards Eligibility Roundup
Once again, it’s time for an awards eligibility roundup! This episode’s transcript appears in full below:
Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: Nominating the works that did make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.
Listeners, it’s somehow that time of the year again, where awards nominations are upon us, and so I have once again reached out to all the wonderful guests who make this show what it is to round up works they’d like to receive your attention for nominations.
To begin, Tales from the Trunk is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Fancast.
Sarah Gailey, who most recently joined me for our 100th episode retrospective, is eligible for Best Graphic Story for Know Your Station, and for Best Fanzine for their excellent Stone Soup.
Leigh Harlen, who joined us in August of 2021, is eligible for Best Novella with A Feast for Flies.
Dee Holloway, who joined us last May, is eligible in various categories. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.
Juliet Kemp, who just joined us most recently a few weeks ago, is eligible for Best Novel with The City Revealed; Best Novella with Song, Stone, Scale, Bone; Best Short Story with “Just As You Are;” and Best Series for The Marek Series. Their eligibility post is linked in the show notes.
Maya MacGregor, who appeared on the show in April of 2022, is eligible in Best Novel and Best Young Adult Novel categories for The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will.
Freya Marske, who appeared here in October of 2021, is eligible for Best Short Story with a version of the very story that she brought to this fine podcast, “One Version of Yourself, At the Speed of Light.” She is also eligible for Best Novel with A Power Unbound and Best Series for The Last Binding.
Sam J. Miller, who joined us in January of 2022, is eligible for Best Short Story with "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak."
Premee Mohamed, who last joined us in the summer of 2021, is eligible for No One Will Come Back For Us in various short story collection categories and for “Imagine Yourself Happy” for Best Short Story. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.
Annalee Newitz, who joined us for a book tour last January is eligible for Best Novel for The Terraformers.
Aimee Ogden, who joined us twice last year, most recently in August, is eligible for Best Novella for Emergent Properties. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.
Malka Older, who joined us at the start of this season in March of last year, is eligible for Best Novella with The Mimicking of Known Successes and for Best Short Story with both “The Plant and the Purist” and “The Dangers We Choose.”
C.L. Polk, who last joined us in February of last year, is eligible for Best Novelette with Ivy, Angelica, Bay, which you can read right now on Tor.com.
Caitlin Starling, who last joined us in October of last year, is eligible for Best Novel with Last to Leave the Room and Best Short Story for “Caver, Continue.” Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes: Twitter | Bluesky
Steve Toase, who joined us back in April of 2021, is eligible for Best Short Story with “Crumpled.” His eligibility post is linked in the show notes.
Rem Wigmore, who last joined us in August of 2022, has an eligible novelette, Lightrunner’s Gambit, and a novel, Wolfpack.
Fran Wilde, who joined us in January of 2021, is eligible for Best Novella for The Book of Gems, Best Short Story for “The Rain Remembers What The Sky Forgets,” and Best Short Story for “No Contingency.” In addition, she would like to recommend From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, in which “No Contingency” appears, to be considered for anthology and related media categories. Fran, along with Julian Yap, are eligible for Best Editor, Short, for their work at Sunday Morning Transport, which is itself eligible for Best Semiprozine.
If you’ve made it this far, I’d like to sincerely thank you for listening and nominating over the years. Your support means so much to me and all of my guests.
Next month, we’re closing season five of this show out with a book tour appearance by Canadian author and definitely not a lorge beetle Premee Mohamed and a trunk reading from Jo Miles. Please note that due to some scheduling conflicts, Premee’s episode will be releasing on February 8th rather than the 1st.
Also, season 6 is almost upon us! I’m still hammering out guests, so stay tuned to see what amazing authors join me!
Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.
Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Lillian Boyd.
You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.
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19 January 2024, 6:00 am - 26 minutes 32 secondsBook Tour 34: Juliet Kemp – Song, Stone, Scale, Bone
This time around, I’m joined again by the delightful Juliet Kemp, who joins us to talk about their new novella, Song, Stone, Scale, Bone! After a great little reading, we talk about some of the things that are hard to get on page.
Things mentioned in this episode:
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, by Patricia C. Wrede
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Marek series, concluding with The City Revealed, by Juliet Kemp
The Last Binding trilogy, by Freya Marske
5 January 2024, 6:00 am - 1 hour 14 minutesEpisode 58: Josh Storey – The Wolf That Waits at the End of All Things
Today it is my sincere pleasure to welcome to the show weird little guy and all around splendid human being Josh Storey! Josh reads to us from his trunked novel, The Wolf That Waits at the End of All Things, which leads us into a lively discussion of the novels we wrote a few pages of when we were young, the ways we reuse ideas until they find the right home, and semiotic bullshit.
Things we mention in this episode:
Terry Pratchett’s troll counting
Macey’s murderboard episode on We Make Books
River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey
World’s largest frying pan in Iowa
Machineries of Empire series, by Yoon Ha Lee
The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks
Mary Robinette Kowal’s patreon
“The Air Gap,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Lamplight
Peridot Shift series, by R.J. Theodore
My macaroni and cheese recipe (and essay)
This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi)
15 December 2023, 6:00 am - 58 minutes 44 secondsEpisode 57: Sean Markey – The Deadlands
Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome publisher of The Deadlands, Sean Markey, to the show! Sean talks us through the inception of the magazine, what it’s like being a publisher, and where both the magazine and his press, Psychopomp, is going next!
Things we mention in this episode:
“Refuse All Their Colors,” by Annalee Flower Horne
A Voice Calling, by Christopher Barzak
Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie
“The Dead Boy Inside Me,” by Angel Leal
“Ultraviolet,” by Spiritbox (and on Bandcamp)
“Peristalsis,” by Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall, by Vajra Chandrasekera
“The Long Way Up,” by Alix E. Harrow
“Death is a Diner at 3:00 a.m.” by A.C. Wise
Psychopomp twitter and bluesky
The Deadlands twitter and bluesky
Shimmer’s twitter
17 November 2023, 6:00 am - 35 minutes 8 secondsBook Tour 33: Martha Wells – System Collapse
Today it is my absolute pleasure to welcome to the show none other than Martha Wells! Martha joins us to read from and talk about the newest entry in her Murderbot Diaries series, System Collapse, out November 14th from TorDotCom publishing!
A transcription of this episode by Kiri from the Murderbot discord is available here
Things we mention on this episode:
Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, and Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
Witch King, by Martha Wells
City of Bones, by Martha Wells
The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer, by Martha Wells
Mammoths at the Gates, by Nghi Vo
Furious Heaven, by Kate Elliott
The Water Outlaws, by S.L. Huang
Martha’s website, bluesky, mastodon, and insta
Join us on November 17th, when my guest will be Sean Markey!
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