#17: Highlands and Night Vales

This week, we discuss historical TV sensation Outlander, otherworldly podcast Welcome to Night Vale and Chris Kraus’ epistolary novel I Love Dick.

The Links

On Outlander

The trailer for the first series.

This is a good piece about masculinity and sexuality in Outlander.

On Welcome to Night Vale

More details about the podcast and how to get episodes can be found here.

You can find the Limetown podcast Caroline mentioned here.

Here are some examples of Night Vale fan art (see more on our tumblr).

On I Love Dick

Leslie Jamison in the New Yorker on the novel and the way it expresses female consciousness.

Haley Mlotek tries to articulate why we love Chris Kraus.

Sheila Heti interviews Chris Kraus.

Next week:

Anna is watching the 2005 film TransAmerica.

Your questions:

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Music

The music featured this week, in order of appearance, is:

The Skye Boat Song (Outlander theme)

You Dont Know - Mount Moon

Our theme music is “Guatemala - Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!