Buffy Revamped’s Jacob Jackson. Plus, Ilana Masad’s Queer Book Recs

Buffy Revamped is closing this weekend at Chicago’s Studebaker Theatre. Its star Jacob Jackson is our guest today. Buffy Revamped is all 144 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as told through the eyes of the one person who knows it inside out… Spike. It was Officially the Best Reviewed Comedy Show of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023.

Get your tickets here: https://www.fineartsbuilding.com/events/buffy-revamped/

THEN: It’s the 3rd Friday of the month, and author and critic Ilana Masad joins us to discuss queer books we need to be reading and she has a special set for us today. Here is the link to Ilana’s latest article: https://flaminghydra.com/fish-face/

Here are the books and links to get your copies!

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf 

https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780670674244

Something Queer is Going On by Elizabeth Levy

https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/something-queer/49626/

Frog and Toad by Arnold Loebel

https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780062883124

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780440416791

Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder

https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9798217002535

Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780062252074

Neither by Airlie Anderson

https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780316547710

Ilana Masad is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism whose work has been widely published. She holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of the novels All My Mother’s Lovers and Beings, as well as the coeditor of the forthcoming anthology Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor. https://www.ilanamasad.com/

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