Drunk Book Club: Poppy Z Brite's LOST SOULS

Published: July 8, 2019, 7:02 p.m.

b'80s and early 90s vampire fiction responded to the wealth porn aestheticism of Anne Rice by getting as punk and filthy as possible, with varying results (look we\'re not even going to humor the claim that this is anything but very obviously a response to the Vampire Chroincles). In this case....well. Is it possible to be more misogynistic than an Anne Rice book? \\nTurns out the answer is yes, when your book is written by a then-closeted trans man still Working Through Some Shit. There is, as the academics say, a lot to unpack here.\\n\\nCONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, forced pregnancy, anti-choice rhetoric, uterine horror, rape apologism, misogyny, pedophilia, incest, drug use, and body horror. This one is A LOT, so take care\\n\\n1:00 That Closeted Trans Dude Feel\\n8:30 Drinks\\n12:30 Prologue\\n21:00 Small Realisms \\n24:00 Fuck You, Steve\\n28:00 "Secret Bone Dance" \\n39:00 OC DONOT STEAL\\n41:00 Death By Baby\\n49:00 The Failure of Nothing\\n54:00 College Course Storytime \\n57:00 Abjection of Sexuality \\n69:00 Switched at Birth Fantasy \\n71:00 This, That, and the Other\\n75:00 The Danger of a Moral Center Character\\n79:00 Death to the Old Vampire\\n81:00 Should You Read This\\n\\nSay hi to Dorothy and Vrai on Twitter @writervrai and @dorothynotgale\\n\\nJoin us every two weeks on Soundcloud, iTunes or Stitcher \\u2013 and if you\\u2019d leave a rating and review, so that more people can find their way to us, we\\u2019d appreciate it!'