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Guest: Shinjini DeyTitle: Tainaron: Mail From Another City by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi HawkinsHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx The “Post-Exotic” novels by Antoine Volodine etc- Kree, Mevlido’s Dreams, Postexoticism in 12 LessonsThe New Weird, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeerOn the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara HavelandWonderbook by Jeff VanderMeerItalo Calvino’s Invisible CitiesRenee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka"Big Dumb Objects"Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern ReachJeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander & Casella’s review"The Look", "The Gaze"Entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre & mystic Angelus SilesiusEmmanuel Levinas & Martin BuberSofia Samatar’s A Stranger In OlondriaNghi Vo’s The City in Glass & Casella’s reviewProtagoras“Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose”Longhorn beetlesJ.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of “sub-creation”Shinjini’s website & twitterHow did I fail to mention TMBG's "Snail Shell"? -
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Guest: Sunny MoraineTitle: Pattern Recognition by William GibsonHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Your Shadow Half RemainsLong Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of HistoryLooming LowSinging With All My Skin and BoneSerial horror podcast GoneThe Shadow Files of Morgan KnoxGibson's Neuromancer, Virtual Light, Mona Lisa Overdrive, “The Gernsback Continuum”, The Peripheral, “Fragments of a Hologram Rose”Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune MessiahUrsula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of DarknessNathan Ballingrud’s Crypt of the Moon Spider, The Strange, and North American Lake MonstersChina Miéville’s The City and the CityMichel Foucault's notion of heterotopiaJean Baudrillard's Simulacra and SimulationWilliam Gibson & the Futures of Contemporary Culture edited by Mitch R. Murray and Matthias NilgesSheryl Vint & Charles YuBeat writers; Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. BurroughsImagism Mono No AwareSpeculative Realism/Object Oriented Ontology; Jane Bennett, Graham Harman, Timothy MortonC.J. Cherryh's notion of “Third Person Intense Internal”Aimee Pokwatka’s Self Portrait With NothingKids by The MidnightSonic Nurse by Sonic YouthAmplitudes edited by Lee MandeloSunny on BlueskyWorld Fantasy Awards -
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Guest: Juan MartinezTitle: Gilded Needles by Michael McDowellHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Juan’s collection Best Worst American & horror novel Extended StayJackleg PressStoryStudioTananarive Due's The ReformatoryEden Robins’ Remember You Will DieSofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the ChainAnanda Lima's Craft: Stories I Told the DevilJesse Ball's The Repeat RoomT.E.D. Klein’s The CeremoniesPeter StraubBeetlejuice, directed by Timothy BurtonTales from the Crypt & Tales from the DarksideThe Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry SelickMcDowell's The Elementals"A little bit like Edith Wharton with more murder"Jaws, directed by Steven SpielbergArthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesVictor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame & Les MisérablesTriangle of Sadness, directed by Ruben ÖstlundAlexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte CristoThe Abominable Dr. Phibes, directed by Robert FuestThey Might Be GiantsLydia LunchRobert MapplethorpePatti SmithShakespeare’s Titus Andronicus & Julie Taymor’s film adaptationThomas Ligotti, Bruno Schulz, & Franz KafkaMcDowell's Death CollectionStephen King, Philip K. Dick, & C.J. CherryhAnne Lamott’s Bird by BirdThe Ghosts of Where We Are FromJuan’s DNC protest coverage at the Believer, parts one & twoFollow Juan on Instagram & Threads for the good doodle content -
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Guest: Amal El-MohtarTitle: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Rakesfall by Vajra ChandrasekeraIn Universes by Emmet NorthThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarAmal’s review of those three novelsThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienThe Grace of Kings by Ken LiuThe Craft Sequence by Max GladstoneStar WarsWicked problemsA Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinBabel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. KuangThe Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo PontecorvoTony Gilroy’s Star Wars series AndorThe Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraThe sequels to Traitor Baru, The Monster Baru Cormorant & The Tyrant Baru CormorantCommedia dell’arteLee Mandelo's writing on Eve Sedwgick, paranoid & reparative readingKameron Hurley & Arkady MartineExordia by Seth DickinsonThe Unaccountability Machine by Dan DaviesAmal's next book, The River Has RootsThe ballad of The Two Sisters/The Bonny SwansLud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees -
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Host: Jake Casella BrookinsGuest: Dan HartlandTitle: The Passion by Jeanette WintersonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
This blog has a round-up of articles and commentary on the Gaiman allegations.Dan’s Snap! Criticism series at AncillaryHandheld PressVonda McInty’re The Exile Waiting & DreamsnakeThe 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and FantasyAnnie Luong on Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes LastNeal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon and the Baroque CycleLaura van den Berg’s State of Paradise & Casella’s reviewDon DeLillo’s White NoiseWinterson’s Written on the Body, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, and FrankissteinBernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novelsWilliam Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Winter’s TaleChina Miéville’s The City & The City (though I don’t think we actually name it)Salman Rushdie, Martin AmisJulian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10½ ChaptersThe 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction edited by Emily Horton, Philip Tew, and Leigh WilsonNeil Gaiman, Jeff Noon, Steph Swainston“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. EliotFrank Herbert’s DuneMary Shelley’s FrankensteinWendy Roy on Cherie DimalineWilliam Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and othersDan’s piece in LARB on Christopher Priest and his last novel, Airside -
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Guest: A.V. MarracciniTitle: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin AitkenMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, or ArdorAnton Hur’s Toward Eternity and Casella’s reviewA.V.’s forthcoming book, These New FragilitiesNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-StarsPresses discussed:Lolli EditionsNew DirectionsFSG PressFitzarraldoSeven StoriesTorInside the CastleKristina Carlson’s Eunuch translated from the Finnish by Mikko AlapuroPsychedlic Ray Bradbury coversJenny Hval’s novels, such as Paradise RotSamuel R. DelanyVajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright DoorsGretchen Felker-Martin Manhunt and CuckooJohn TrefryOlga Ravn's My WorkLea Guldditte Hestelund's sculptureInterview with Ravn about Hestelund Le Guin's Carrier Bag theory of fictionArthur C. Clarke/Stanley Kubrick’s 2001Stanislaw Lem’s FiascoAngélica GorodischerKim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the FuturePhilip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & Ridley Scott’s BladerunnerBattlestar GalacticaUrsula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of DarknessJorge Luis Borges & Italo CalvinoE. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of StarsStanislaw Lem's SolarisRavn's Twitter @OlgaRavnAV on Twitter @saintsoftness -
Taylor Driggers joins us to talk about the second volume in C.S. Lewis's SPACE TRILOGY. A richly-described and philosophical science fiction story, PERELANDRA has a lot that's interesting and a lot that's pretty weird when you think about it.
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Guest: Taylor Driggers Title: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers The Ursula Le Guin Archives Laurie Marks’ Elemental Logic novel series Philophantast conference The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (and our episode on it) The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman The other two novels in the Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia The Inklings (wiki link) Lewis’s A Grief Observed Lewis’s final novel Till We Have Faces Ursula Le Guin’s review of Lewis’s The Dark Tower Lewis’s The Great Divorce, Pilgrim’s Regress, and The Screwtape Letters Stephen Metcalf, “Language and Self-Consciousness: The Making and Breaking of C.S. Lewis’ Personae” in Word and Story in C. S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice ed. Peter J. Schakel & Charles A. Huttar Lewis’s debate with Elizabeth Anscombe J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Ridley Scott’s Alien “Sehnsucht”, the concept of inconsolable longing The Transformers franchise Aamer Rahman on defeating Nazis Satan (Milton’s version) Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and specifically the religion/philosophy of the Handdara Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain Casella’s essay on (not) defending science fiction against criticisms of complicity Taylor’s seminar for his work with the Le Guin Fellowship on historicizing queerness in fantasy and “queer hiddenness in the archive”, available online this fall/winter. Greg Egan’s “Oracle”, available on his site (and in the collections Oceanic and The Best of Greg Egan)ContactRSS feed | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | +lots of other platforms (let us know if it’s not on your favorite)
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Ancillary Review editors Jake Casella Brookins and Misha Grifka Wander discuss Susanna Clarke's PIRANESI: epistolary realism and the novel, numinous personhood, and glimpses of utopia in rejecting capitalist expectations.
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Guest: Misha Grifka Wander
Title: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
Artwork by Rob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
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Misha’s interviews with Sofia Samatar and Vajra ChandrasekeraExordia by Seth DickinsonArrival (Villeneuve’s adaptation of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”)Weird Black Girls by Elwin CotmanDisorientation by Elaine Hsieh ChouStarship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven’s film adaptation)The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThrough the Looking Glass & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollChristopher Nolan’s MementoPhilosopher’s including John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John RawlsAugustine’s ConfessionsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis BorgesAnathem by Neal StephensonA Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsDavid Lynch’s Twin PeaksNic Pizzolatto’s True DetectiveContact
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Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to critic Roseanna Pendlebury about Isaac Fellman's DEAD COLLECTIONS (a novel about a trans vampire archivist) and how it addresses grief, portrayals of bodies and identities over time, fanfic and low-budget television, and the place of more experimental fiction in genre publishing.
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Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to Dan Hartland, critic and reviewer, about China Miéville's novel THE SCAR, the genre of the New Weird, and many related works and ideas.
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Guest: Dan HartlandTitle: The Scar by China MiévilleMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughLinks & works referenced:
Strange Horizons reviewsDan’s Snap! Criticism seriesCahokia Jazz by Francis SpuffordDan’s review of Cahokia Jazz at Strange HorizonsHim by Geoff RymanThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarCasella’s review of PHC at the Chicago Review of BooksThe West Passage by Jared PechačekPerdido Street Station and Iron Council by China MiévilleEmbassytown and The City and the City by China MiévillePirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber“Epic Pooh” by Michael Moorcock (pdf)“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane (pdf)The Year of Our War by Steph SwainstonJustina RobsonThe Wall by Gautam BhatiaThe Etched City by K.J. Bishop“Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City” by J.R. Bolt @ TypebarRobert Jordan’s Wheel of Time seriesTerry Brooks’ Shannara seriesUrsula Le Guin’s fantasyKelly LinkCarmen Maria MachadoGraham Harman’s idea of overminingCormac McCarthyThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max GladstoneCasella’s bit about baseline genre familiarity in his ARB essay on TIHYLTTW.The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraChristopher PriestContact
RSS feed | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | +lots of other platforms (let us know if it’s not on your favorite)You can follow A Meal of Thorns on Twitter and Bluesky.Email us at [email protected].Support the Show!
You can support the podcast (and the Ancillary Review of Books) by joining our Patreon. For $5 and up, you get access to ARB’s exclusive monthly newsletter, our Discord community, and more to come.Interested in purchasing a book we mentioned on the show? Check the show notes for Bookshop links; we get a cut if you buy them through our Bookshop!It seems small, but it really does help: like and share our posts! Leave a comment or review wherever you find us. The internet’s kind of broken, but that kind of thing really does help people hear about the work we’re doing.
