Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
Jun 02, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Vox's Constance Grady talks with writer Carmen Maria Machado, whose 2017 short story collection Her Body and Other Parties was a National Book Award finalist. In this episode, which is a recording of a live Vox Book Club event, they discuss how this haunting genre-straddling collection conveys the underlying horrors of being an embodied woman, how the nation's shifting cultural mores around sexual violence are reflected in Law & Order: SVU, and how Machado's writing expresses what she just might start calling the "femme uncanny."
Host: Constance Grady (@constancegrady), staff writer, Vox
Guests: Carmen Maria Machado, author
References:
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf; 2017)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (2002)
Kelly Link
"The Green Ribbon" by Alvin Schwartz, from In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (1984)
"'Law & Order' is lost without Stabler and Benson. Here's why their pairing works," by Carmen Maria Machado (LA Times; Apr. 8, 2021)
"The Trash Heap Has Spoken" by Carmen Maria Machado (Guernica; Feb. 13, 2017)
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This episode was made by:
Producer: Erikk Geannikis
Editor: Amy Drozdowska
Engineer: Patrick Boyd
Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall
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