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Michelle Myles of NYC’s Daredevil Tattoo Museum chats tattoo history in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, her own journey as a tattoo artist, and some of the favorite pieces of history in the Tattoo Museum curated by Michelle and her colleagues at the shop.
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In anticipation of WEIRD: THE WEIRD AL STORY we sat down with musicologist Lily Hirsch to discuss WEIRD AL: SERIOUSLY — a serious study at music’s most beloved funny song man. We also answer the question on everyone’s mind, “Did Weird Al date Madonna?”. Spoiler alert! He did not.
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SIGN HERE is an incredible genre-defying debut from Claudia Lux. Half workplace comedy, half heartrending family thriller, it is in turns hilariously funny and deeply affecting. Jessikah & Jenn had so much fun chatting with Claudia.
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Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop grew up the daughter of war hero and journalist Stewart Alsop III, but her mother Tish Alsop had been a hero in her own right. Elizabeth chats with us about discovering her quiet mother’s secret history as a decoding agent for MI5 — and how this granted her a deep relationship with her mother later in life, only to care for Tish as she succumbed to dementia in her later years.
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Jessikah sinks her teeth into Rachel Harrison’s new book SUCH SHARP TEETH. We get a few words in about lady werewolves, and how these stories of transformation parallel how we feel about bodily autonomy.
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Panic, urban legends, and Sue Bird! We spend a lot of time bouncing around topics with Josh Malerman — but it all relates to DAPHNE, a fabulous book that you should definitely read with the lights on.
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Liz Climo — a cartoonist whose credits range from The Simpsons to Picture Books joins us to chat about I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE, a sweet affirming book for ages 5 to 95 that feels like a hug from your favorite stuffed animals.
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Jessikah chats with Russell James about THE DEMON DAGGER, a sci-fi horror novel set in Florida about a Demon Hunter who discovers that the stakes are high when someone very close to him has been possessed.
