On the Shelf for November 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 327

2025-11-01

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On the Shelf for November 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 327 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Setting up context for this month’s fiction episode Additions to the website Progress on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project book Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Pelliccia, Hayden. 1995. “Ambiguity against Ambiguity: Anacreon 13 Again” in Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 20: 23-34. Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer a...

On the Shelf for November 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 327 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

Setting up context for this month’s fiction episode
Additions to the website
Progress on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project book
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Pelliccia, Hayden. 1995. “Ambiguity against Ambiguity: Anacreon 13 Again” in Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 20: 23-34.
- Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos” in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 40, Fasc. 1/2: 132-137.
- Petropoulos, J.C.B. 1993. “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 97: 43-56.
- Devereux, George. 1970. “The Nature of Sappho's Seizure in Fr. 31 LP as Evidence of Her Inversion” in The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1: 17-31.
- Lardinois, André. 1994. “Subject and Circumstance in Sappho's Poetry” in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 124: 57-84.
- Most, Glenn W. 1995. “Reflecting Sappho” in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 40: 15-38.
- Skinner, M.B. 1989. “Sapphic Nossis” in Arethusa 22:5-18.
- Blondell, Ruby and Sandra Boehringer. 2014. “Revenge of the Hetairistria: The Reception of Plato’s Symposium in Lucian’s Fifth DIalogue of the Courtesans.” Arethusa 47: 231-64.
Book Shopping
- The A to Z of Charles II’s London 1682
- The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- No Love for an Outlaw by Kerri Reeves
- Twin Flames of Namwon: The Reimagined Love Story of Chunhyang and Cheong by Velis Aenora
- Neon Nights by William Ellison
- Raised for the Sword by Aimée
- The Salvage by Anbara Salam
- A Lady for a Highwayman (from Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins
- My Mother's Spear by Ishtar Watson
- Phoenix (Intertwined Souls #9) by Mary Dee
- Ophelia by S.M. Namkoong
- Between Two Silences by Shanon O'Brien
- The Secret War (Hattie James #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller
- The Duke by Anna Cowan
- My Darling Clementine (Clementine #1) by Genta Sebastian
- Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko
Other Titles of Interest
- The Fault Mirror by Catherine Fearns
- As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel
What I’ve been reading
- Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear
- A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
- Murderbot Series (various titles) by Martha Wells
- Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Anbara Salam and talk about:
- What grounds a story in a specific place and time?
- Isolation, claustrophobia, and “things that should be gone but aren’t” as the essence of gothics
- Researching queer sexuality in the mid-20th century
- Exploring sapphic longing
- The importance of not making the central conflict about queerness
- The Salvage by Anbara Salam
- Belladona by Anbara Salam