This was recorded before she died and focuses mainly on her last novel “Fledgling”, a new take on vampires. Although I have not read anything of hers, I really enjoyed listening to what issues she’s interested in exploring in her writing in general and the way in which she came around to writing this novel specifically. (The review on Amazon rhetorically asks: “How many of our happy relationships involve a degree of dominance or dependence that we can’t acknowledge?”) But, man, this book sounds NUTS. (In a good way.)

Beyond exploring Butler’s oeuvre, thinking about this type of book in general really makes me want to reread old stuff like Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, which I haven’t read since…the early 90s sometime I think, in grad school.