Matt Baume

Was Bram Stoker horny for Walt Whitman? It certainly seems like that may have been the case. Bram did send a very flirtatious letter to Walt, years before Bram wrote Dracula. And Dracula may itself be based on Walt Whitman's book erotic gay poetry. So we're going to be looking into that in this week

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is author and psychotherapist Wayne Scott. His new book, The Maps They Gave Us, is a memoir about navigating a rocky period in a marriage, about narrowly dodging divorce through non-monogamy, and about rediscovering his relationship with the queer comm

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Andrew Rimby, host of the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast. Andrew’s career as an entertainer began at an early age as a stage performer, but then he took an unexpected swerve into academia, and he’s spent the last decade pursuing a PhD, exploring th

Why is villainy so much fun? Whether it's cackling Emperor Palpatine or Joan Collings smirking smugly on Dynasty, bad guys invariably seem to be having such a good time ... and it can be hard to resist wanting to join them. My guest this week is Ira Madison, culture writer for The Daily Beast and co