March 28, 2026 Update:
It’s been a while since I inhaled the entire backlist of a podcast over the space of a couple of weeks, but I recently did that with the fantastic Drafting the Past, in which host Kate Carpenter asks fellow historians about their writing habits and tips. The section where she asks them how a short section of one of their books came about never fails to impress me. (I’ve also added a bunch of volumes to my to-read pile after hearing about their creation.) Excellent!
I was blown away by Izabella Scott’s The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial. It brings together true crime, legal scholarship, queer theory, questions of free will and LGBTQ progress, the world's strange perception of creative-writing degrees, and much more in a wonderfully readable, page-turning way. The author displays astonishing control of the material.
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