In this spooktacular episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Toni Tresca don their mouse ears as they discuss the truly horrific and absolutely fantastic 2023 novel Maeve Fly by author C.J. Leede. 

We highly recommend you read the book before listening to this episode!

Episode Highlights: We explore how this novel serves as a love story to LA, and the ways that Leede manages to both rip off our rose-tinted glasses about the City of Angels even as she encourages us to find beauty in the asphalt landscape. Referencing Grady Hendrix's blurb that this novel is "an apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho," we talk about what it means to juxtapose this novel with Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and how much we appreciated Leede's crafting of her female lead character. And, of course, we examine how this novel plays with the Happiest Place on Earth, and the one scene involving a mouse that we will never forget. 

A Dose of Scholarship: This is a new novel, so there is not yet any scholarship written on Maeve Fly...but there are several great interviews with C.J. Leede, including Crime Reads interview "Arianna Reiche and C.J. Leede on Weird Lit, Angry Girls, and Amusement Parks" and Paul Semel's interview with C.J. Leede.  

This podcast episode first aired on October 9, 2023.

To our editor Jackson O'Brien: thank you and we hope this one didn't scar you too bad. :-)

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