On the Shelf for November 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 327

On the Shelf for November 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 327 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Setting up context for this month’s fiction episode
• Additions to the website
• Progress on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project book
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Pelliccia, Hayden. 1995. “Ambiguity against Ambiguity: Anacreon 13 Again” in Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 20: 23-34.
  • Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos” in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 40, Fasc. 1/2: 132-137.
  • Petropoulos, J.C.B. 1993. “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 97: 43-56.
  • Devereux, George. 1970. “The Nature of Sappho's Seizure in Fr. 31 LP as Evidence of Her Inversion” in The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1: 17-31.
  • Lardinois, André. 1994. “Subject and Circumstance in Sappho's Poetry” in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 124: 57-84.
  • Most, Glenn W. 1995. “Reflecting Sappho” in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 40: 15-38.
  • Skinner, M.B. 1989. “Sapphic Nossis” in Arethusa 22:5-18.
  • Blondell, Ruby and Sandra Boehringer. 2014. “Revenge of the Hetairistria: The Reception of Plato’s Symposium in Lucian’s Fifth DIalogue of the Courtesans.” Arethusa 47: 231-64.
• Book Shopping
  • The A to Z of Charles II’s London 1682
  • The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • No Love for an Outlaw by Kerri Reeves
  • Twin Flames of Namwon: The Reimagined Love Story of Chunhyang and Cheong by Velis Aenora
  • Neon Nights by William Ellison
  • Raised for the Sword by Aimée
  • The Salvage by Anbara Salam
  • A Lady for a Highwayman (from Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins
  • My Mother's Spear by Ishtar Watson
  • Phoenix (Intertwined Souls #9) by Mary Dee
  • Ophelia by S.M. Namkoong
  • Between Two Silences by Shanon O'Brien
  • The Secret War (Hattie James #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller
  • The Duke by Anna Cowan
  • My Darling Clementine (Clementine #1) by Genta Sebastian
  • Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Fault Mirror by Catherine Fearns
  • As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel
• What I’ve been reading
  • Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear
  • A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
  • Murderbot Series (various titles) by Martha Wells
  • Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
• Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview Anbara Salam and talk about:
  • What grounds a story in a specific place and time?
  • Isolation, claustrophobia, and “things that should be gone but aren’t” as the essence of gothics
  • Researching queer sexuality in the mid-20th century
  • Exploring sapphic longing
  • The importance of not making the central conflict about queerness
  • The Salvage by Anbara Salam
  • Belladona by Anbara Salam

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Anbara Salam Online

• Website: anbarasalam.com
• Instagram: @anbarasalam