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May 2024
1h 18m

Genevieve Jagger - Fragile Animals

DEATH // SENTENCE
About this episode
Vampires are having a bit of a moment, and the best book in the current wave is Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals, a literary maybe-vampire story set in Scotland. We talk about why vampires are back, Catholicism, trauma and the best vampire films (Near Dark and The Only Lovers Left Alive). Music by Glassing and Inter Arma 
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