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Credits:

• Guest: Marita Arvaniti
• Title: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• A Meal of Thorns and the Ancillary Review of Books are Hugo finalists! We are delighted and honored; a big congratulations to all the finalists.
• Dianna Wynne Jones, Greer Gilman, Elizabeth Bear
• Dianna Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock
• Elizabeth Hand’s Mortal Love
• Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin
• Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow edited fairytale collections
• Robin Hobb’s Mad Ship
• Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books
• Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots
• Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of Corruption
• E.R. Eddison
• Laurie J. Marks’ Elemental Logic series
• Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale
• Euripedes' The Bacchae
• Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
• Michael Swanwick’s Hope in the Mist
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
• C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, specifically Prince Caspian
• Robert Luketic’s Legally Blonde
• Edgar Allen Poe, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Farthest Shore
• Anne Carson’s translation of Bakkhai
• Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
• Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
• N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
• Sofia Samatar's Olondrian novels
• Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes
• Naomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel Perilous and Memoirs of a Spacewoman
• T.H. White, Tanith Lee
• Ellen Kushner’s Thomas the Rhymer
• Jo Walton’s Among Others
• Kat Howard’s Roses and Rot
• Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon
• Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife
• Guardian Article on romantasy
• Copyright romantasy case
• Sarah J. Maas
• Jacqueline Carey Kushiel's Dart
• Nicholas Stuart Gray’s Seven Swans
• Marita’s Instagram