{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhiskeyandtheweird.com%2Fepisodes%2Fs9e9-the-rose-wall-by-joyce-carol-oates-pg2g8oP0","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"S9E9: The Rose Wall by Joyce Carol Oates","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ab3f2709-7203-463b-b3a2-a65da11e5e46/9c3f5236-e0e5-4fb0-a516-cfc65b94dc96/9.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/68e19044-2512-4c12-af89-610e15950ee9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"S9E9: The Rose Wall by Joyce Carol Oates\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Holy living author, Batman! This week, the gang chats what else is a rose, the fine line between empowerment and obsession, horror that refuses to explain itself, and why the best beer names are meal-themed. Plus, adaptation what-ifs, the depth of fences, and fresh evidence that the creepiest things are usually hiding in plain sight!\n\nWelcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: The Rose Wall by Joyce Carol Oates."}