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Lament Configuration

by Julia Gfrörer & Gretchen Felker-Martin

Cartoonist Julia Gfrörer and horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin talk about art, sickness, love, and suffering. Come sit by the charnel pit with us and contemplate the heat-death of the universe.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 019: Laser-Focused Custard Pie

    In which we answer listener questions about patron saints, fictional meals, and more.

  2. Episode 018: Marry, Fuck, Kill

    Gretchen and Julia talk character design, ambient mermaid music, and creative discipline.

  3. Episode 017: Octopus Surgeon

    Why cheap art (yes, again!), our favorite torture scenes, and which one of us is which Mantle brother.

  4. Episode 016: Otter Insulation

    We talk about "bad" sex writing and what people are revealing about their relationship to sex when they titter at anything more outlandish than missionary. Excerpts read from The Virgin Suicides, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Lolita, and The Name of the Rose.

  5. Episode 015: Erotic Skydiving

    On the merits of indie publishing, loved ones with terrible taste, and refusing the red pill.

  6. Episode 014: The Undesirables

    On Manhunt, transmisogyny, pushing through shame, and the fallacy of "good" and "bad" ideas in making art.

  7. Episode 013: The Caterpillar's Work

    On reassessing art, the joy of shopping, Richard Nixon, television fandom, and the infinite power of Sharon Stone.

  8. Episode 012: Vogue

    On Madonna, Tommy Wiseau's The Room, "bad" art, and where and how we work.

  9. Episode 011: A Fly in the Air Conditioner

    On gendered socialization, alien intelligences, keeping your self-loathing shit locked down, fatness on television, comparative vulnerability, and the value of weird sex writing.

  10. Episode 010: Apple Cabin Foods

    On Smaug and Gollum, the care and feeding of crocodiles injured by boat collisions, rich people's bad taste, and the non-existent difference between porn and art.

  11. Episode 009: The Vulture Sisters

    On Dracula, mid-century firefighting, love stories, how we experience attraction, and friendship.

  12. Episode 008: The Foghorn

    On Messalina's sex life, Ray Bradbury, clitoral erections, and the nature of delicacy.

  13. Episode 007: Scorched Earth

    On ghosts, I, Claudius, genocide, THEM, going to Hell, and where Dr. Doom got his degree.

  14. Episode 006: The Secret Eighth Limb

    Gretchen and Julia talk about public wallowing, tit names, Jean-Luc Picard, Mortal Kombat lore, and the writing of Miss Manners.

  15. Episode 005: A Beautiful Dr. Finkelstein

    Listener questions, the art of bullshitting confidence, and the delicate eroticism of wrapping a skinless woman in bandages.

  16. Episode 004: A Voice in the Dark

    Gretchen and Julia talk about David Lynch's use of disembodied voices, the historical and cultural importance of voice and breath, and a bunch of other smart-sounding shit.

  17. Episode 003: Glowing Piss

    We answer listener questions.

  18. Episode 002: Gretchen's a Hare

    In which we discuss the pros and cons of human sacrifice, The Wicker Man, the desire to impart meaning to meaningless suffering, the reasons humans self-harm, and Gretchen cries a little bit if you listen close. (Julia's sound gets fucked up at the end of this one. We deeply regret the error but...

  19. Episode 001: The Winter of Our Discontent

    "Art" and "content" have become interchangeable concepts not just in the corporate world, but among artists themselves. How did the term become so ubiquitous, where did its modern usage originate, and does it matter which word you use? Lucky for you, the smartest bitches on the block are here to...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Cartoonist Julia Gfrörer and horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin talk about art, sickness, love, and suffering. Come sit by the charnel pit with us and contemplate the heat-death of the universe.

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Julia Gfrörer & Gretchen Felker-Martin

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What is Lament Configuration about?

Cartoonist Julia Gfrörer and horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin talk about art, sickness, love, and suffering. Come sit by the charnel pit with us and contemplate the heat-death of the universe.

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Lament Configuration is created and hosted by Julia Gfrörer & Gretchen Felker-Martin.
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