{"id":6442,"date":"2025-10-06T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:08:55","slug":"episode-275-darkly-dreaming-dexter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-275-darkly-dreaming-dexter\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 275 &#8211; Darkly Dreaming Dexter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darklydreamingdexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darklydreamingdexter-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darklydreamingdexter-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darklydreamingdexter-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darklydreamingdexter-142x220.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darklydreamingdexter.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you perhaps looking for a perfectly pleasant podcast? Well, unfortunately, we read <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780307277886\"><em>Darkly Dreaming Dexter<\/em>\u00a0by Jeff Lindsay<\/a>. We were joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vanityfollowsform\/\">artist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/momebie.bsky.social\">poet<\/a>, and Kait&#8217;s roommate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/klnotkale\">KL<\/a> (they\/them) to unpack all of Dexter&#8217;s astonishingly awkward alliteration. Listen to this episode while arranging your Barbie crime scene dioramas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-275-darkly-dreaming-dexter\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@polterguysofficial\/video\/7100779776314641710?lang=en\">&#8220;Surprise, Motherfucka&#8221; Vine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/1n42bx\/i_am_jeff_lindsay_creator_of_dexter_ama\/\">Jeff Lindsay AMA on Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Dexter\/comments\/18tt833\/dexter_in_the_dark_book_spoilers_dark_passenger\/\">Dark Passenger Origins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/contributors\/skip-hollandsworth\/\">Skip Hollandsworth for Texas Monthly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FTWNnmymMc4\">How Sociopaths Actually Act by Patric Gagne<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780593952580\"><em>Mate<\/em> by Ali Hazelwood.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8247\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6442-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/275Dexter.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/275Dexter.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/275Dexter.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/275Dexter.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=6442-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/275Dexter.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"275Dexter.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you perhaps looking for a perfectly pleasant podcast? Well, unfortunately, we read Darkly Dreaming Dexter\u00a0by Jeff Lindsay. We were joined by artist, poet, and Kait&#8217;s roommate KL (they\/them) to unpack all of Dexter&#8217;s astonishingly awkward alliteration. Listen to this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-275-darkly-dreaming-dexter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2620,2621,2622,6],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-darkly-dreaming-dexter","tag-dexter","tag-jeff-lindsay","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}