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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: SIM Ep 765 Chops 263: Natalie Haynes and the monstering of Medusa
Description: Back last May, when Mick interviewed classicist, comedian and author Natalie Haynes about Pandora’s Jar – her anthology of women in Greek myths – she asked who Natalie’s favourite woman from Greek myth is and the answer was swift: Medusa. And it’s easy to see why. Medusa, best known as a monster with snakes for hair and the ability to turn living creatures to stone with just a look, was actually a young woman, horribly wronged, terribly punished and then painted as a villain. Stone Blind is Natalie’s new novel, a sharp, warm, funny and incr...