Plain Bad Podcasters

Join Lark and Alex as they re-read and analyze the lesbiest book of all time, emily m. danforth’s ”Plain Bad Heroines.”

Episodes

Apr 15, 2026

2 hr 10 min

Join us as Lark and Alex discuss the chapters "Updates from the Set of The Happenings at Brookhants as Told Online" through "Providence" and then take a Deep Dive into two female-driven queer horror movies. This episode's bibliography is:
"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather
 
The Claudine Novels by Collette
 
"Both Ways" by Carmen Maria Machado
 
Six Reasons to Stop What You're Doing and Watch "Lyle" | Autostraddle

Apr 15, 2026

2 hr 10 min

May 15, 2026

3 hr 4 min

Join Lark and Alex for the final, extra-long episode of Plain Bad Podcasters. We discuss the chapters "Elaine Brookhants, Socialite and Philanthropist, Dies at Age 81" through "The Red Carpet After" and for our final Deep Dive, a long conversation with the author herself, emily danforth! We talk about our experience making the podcast and wrap up with some book and podcast recommendations. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, here are the major markers:
Interview with emily danforth starts at 57 minutes 45 seconds
Book and podcast recommendations start at 2 hours 50 minutes 50 seconds
Those recommendations are:
Alex
Books
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young
You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Anything by Stephen Graham Jones, but especially The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Anything by N. K. Jemesin
Anything by Kate Alice Marshall
Podcasts
The Locked Tomb Podcast
Worst Bestsellers
If Books Could Kill
I Don’t Even Own a Television
Bad Gays
Old Gods of Appalachia
Lark
The Magnus Archives podcast
emily danforth
mentioned the book The Secret History by Donna Tartt

May 15, 2026

3 hr 4 min

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