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The podcast about women who don't give a damn if you like them, brought to you by unlikeable female characters Kristen Lepionka, Layne Fargo, and Wendy Heard.
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Bitches on the Internet
On this very special Unlikeable Female Characters, Kristen, Layne, and Wendy say goodbye (for now) with a look back at their favorite episodes and what they’ve learned in four years of being professional bitches on the internet.
Favorite episodes in case you missed them:
Episode 11: Mediocre White Men
Episode 24: Anniversary Sexpisode
Bonus Episode: Jonathan Mallory Davis
Episode 56: I Hate Men
Episode 65: Megan Abbott
Episode 69: Rachel Harrison
Episode 73: Sara Gran
Episode 79: Young Rich Widows
Episode 99: Wanda Morris
Also mentioned in this episode:
Buzzfeed article about women writing men
Netflix movie Do Revenge
Amazon Prime series The Rings of Power
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Netflix series Wednesday
Meghan Markle’s *Archetypes* podcast
Thanks for listening, and stay unlikeable!
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Treacherous Times with Wanda M. Morris
Wendy welcomes Wanda M. Morris to discuss her new historical thriller Anywhere You Run, what it takes to make the past come alive on the page, and finding joy and hope in dark books (and darker times).
Anywhere You Run is available now wherever books are sold!
Also mentioned in the episode:
Wanda’s debut novel All Her Little Secrets
The official Spotify playlist for Anywhere You Run
Find out more about Wanda on her website, Instagram, and Twitter.
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No Body, No Crime with Kelly J. Ford
Kristen is joined by author Kelly J. Ford to discuss her new Southern noir novel Real Bad Things, the maddening minefield of apologizing as a woman, and why we’re in a golden age for writing weird queer shit.
Real Bad Things is available now wherever books are sold!
Also mentioned in the episode:
Kelly’s debut novel Cottonmouths
Crime fiction author Cheryl A. Head (who Kristen interviewed back in 2020)
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Midsommar
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (and the Apple TV+ adaptation)
Find out more about Kelly on her website, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Reaching the Boiling Point with Courtney Summers
Layne welcomes Courtney Summers to the show for a chat about her harrowing new novel I'm the Girl, the significance of writing about girls who are super gay for each other, and how to hype yourself (and your work) without apology.
You can buy I’m the Girl now, as well as Courtney’s previous books The Project, Sadie, All the Rage, This is Not a Test, Fall for Anything, Some Girls Are, and Cracked Up to Be.
Find out more about Courtney on her website, Instagram, and Twitter.
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From Sex Cults to Rom Coms with Ashley Winstead
Layne talks with Ashley Winstead about her absolutely badass new novel The Last Housewife, the problem of female pleasure under the patriarchy, and how she stays sane by toggling between thrillers and romantic comedies.
The Last Housewife is available now!
Also mentioned in the episode:
Ashley’s other books In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Fool Me Once
The Cut’s exposé on the Sarah Lawrence sex cult
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Justine by the Marquis de Sade and the movie Quills
Find out more about Ashley on her website, Instagram, or Twitter.
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Rage & Rule Breaking with Gwendolyn Kiste
Layne’s celebrating spooky season early with feminist horror author Gwendolyn Kiste! Tune in for their chat about Gwendolyn’s feminist as hell Dracula meets Jane Eyre mashup Reluctant Immortals, why women are so good at controlling our murderous urges, and what makes horror the ideal genre for rule-breaking, rage-fueled fiction.
Reluctant Immortals is out now, as are Gwendolyn’s previous books Boneset & Feathers, The Rust Maidens, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe.
Also mentioned in the episode:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House
Angela Carter, author of The Bloody Chamber
The Babadook
Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked by Christa Carmen
To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger
Yellowjackets
Find out more about Gwendolyn on her website, Instagram, or Twitter.
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Customer Reviews
Such a proud mom story
Today I was in Books A Million in Butler Pennsylvania and a woman in front of me bought The Turnout because her daughter interviewed Meg Abbott on her podcast. Thank
Mom for me for telling me about your podcast!
It’s so good!
Snark and fun and thoughtful discussion
Love this podcast!
Amazing Podcast
An editor directed me to this podcast while I was writing a short story about an “unlikeable female character” and I was hooked. This podcast is utterly amazing. The discussions have been life changing for me both personally as a woman and for my writing. These three women are doing an incredible service to females everywhere, making us feel as though we don’t have to grasp onto the archetype of the perfect, kind, gentle woman to be accepted in life. We can just be ourselves. And men be damned if they don’t like it. Highly recommend, to authors and non-authors alike.