Interview with Ellen Klages - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 40

2020-09-21

Interview with Ellen Klages The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 40 A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: The long incubation for the ideas that became Passing Strange Lesbian culture in mid-century San Francisco and the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island The hidden interconnectedness of Ellen’s novels The love of historic objects and texts Historical fiction as “time travel” for the reader Books mention...

Interview with Ellen Klages The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 40

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

The long incubation for the ideas that became Passing Strange
Lesbian culture in mid-century San Francisco and the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island
The hidden interconnectedness of Ellen’s novels
The love of historic objects and texts
Historical fiction as “time travel” for the reader
Books mentioned
- Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
- “Caligo Lane” by Ellen Klages (originally published in Subterranean Online, Winter 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publications, 2017)
- “Hey Presto” by Ellen Klages (originally published in the anthology Fearsome Magics ed. by Jonathan Strahan, 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publicaitons, 2017)
- The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
- “Time Gypsy” by Ellen Klages (originally published in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook Press, 1999), also available in the collection Portable Childhoods (Tachyon Publications, 2007))