Amy & Book Club is a bookish podcast with benefits. Amy Matthews (https://auscastnetwork.com/talent-profiles/dr-amy-matthews/) is joined by series regulars Justina Ashman (https://x.com/justinaashman), Abby Guy (https://au.linkedin.com/in/aabbyguy), Millie Heffernan (https://www.facebook.com/Milzilla), Payton Hogan (https://www.paytonhogan.com/) and Harry Stewart (https://au.linkedin.com/in/harrison-stewart-7a29a021b) and by a cast of guesties, both special and specialer. Featuring genre deep dives, author Q&As, and a live book club with a signature cocktail/mocktail, we’re your new favourite interactive book club with an accessibly academic flair. Listen to the pod, embrace the community on socials, and tune in to the livestream for the monthly book club – whether you’re a new book lover or a seasoned bibliophile, we can’t wait to meet you!
Welcome to BOTM: Interview with the Vampire. This book might be a classic but it can still give you an existential crisis! This week we dig into the Catholicism of Anne Rice's vampires, Louis' hypocrisy, the horror of a child vampire, and just why Louis is everyone's emotional support vampire.
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MENTIONS
BOOKS
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Pandora by Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wildge
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
TV SERIES
What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
Interview with the Vampire (2022)
MOVIES
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Queen of the Damned (2002)
MUSICALS
Les Miserables
Hamilton
LINKS:
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15 Oct 2026
We're All Vampires: Patriarchy, Prions and Unhinged Academia
This week Amy, Abby & Payton get truly academic and discuss a scholarly article that they have not read; deep dive into the history of the undead and the "oops we promise we really thought they were dead"; examine themes of animalism, predation, patriarchy and violence in Twilight, Buffy, and The Vampire Diaries; debate the ethics and practicalities of vegan vampires and human cannibals; and discover what prions are (and that Payton has prions).
🧛 Our BOTM is Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
MENTIONS
🎓 SCHOLARLSHIP: ”Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror” by Wendy Fall in The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature; Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula by Christopher Frayling
🪶 POETRY: “The Bride of Corinth” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
📖 BOOKS: Dracula by Bram Stoker; Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice; The Blood Countess by Tara Moss; Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith; Black River by Ruby Jean Cottle
📺 TV SHOWS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003); The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017)
🎞️ MOVIES: The Lost Boys (1987)
LINKS:
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7 Oct 2026
Not Like the Other Girls: Teens and the vampires who love them
We're continuing Vampire month by diving deep into the world of teen vampires. Or vampires who fall in love with teens? Join us as we try to pick apart the "pick me" of it all, question why these old ass vampires are interested in teen girls, and the team once again explain how Edward got Bella pregnant in Twilight. Seriously guys, we can't seem to escape Twilight.
This month, we’re reading INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE by Anne Rice. And because it’s a 5-week month, our After Dark episode will be all about Amy’s first time (!?) watching the movie TWILIGHT. Get to reading and watching, and we’ll see you next week to talk about YA vampires!
📚 Book Club just got spooky! Join Flinders writer and academic Amy Matthews and the AMY & BOOK CLUB podcast team on the 29th of October for a Halloween discussion: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-club-series-halloween-spooky-stories-tickets-1985878438869?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-club-series-halloween-spooky-stories-tickets-1985878438869?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true)
🎤🎸 BOOKS & BANGERS Live Show: Amy & Book Club are excited to host our very first live show, featuring music from special guests and local indie rock band, Mass Wisteria! Join us on the 25th of November for hot takes, games, live music and more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/books-bangers-amy-book-club-tickets-1999979053186?aff=ebdssbdestsearch (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/books-bangers-amy-book-club-tickets-1999979053186?aff=ebdssbdestsearch)
MENTIONS
BOOKS
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson
The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
MOVIES
Twilight 2008
The Lost Boys 1987
Vampire Academy 2014
Miss Congeniality 2001
TV SERIES
True Blood 2008
What We Do in the Shadows 2019
Buffy 1997
Charmed 1998
The Righteous Gemstones 2019
OTHER
The Book of Mormon (musical)
Vampire Game by Judal (manga series)
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight playlist (https://stepheniemeyer.com/the-books/twilight/twilight-playlist/)
LINKS:
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Our theme music is “Same Old” by Mass Wisteria. Listen to their music on Bandcamp (https://masswisteria.bandcamp.com/).
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