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  • A Meal of Thorns 11 – THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM with Garrett Bridger Gilmore

    A Meal of Thorns 11 – THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM with Garrett Bridger Gilmore

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    Guest: Garrett Bridger GilmoreTitle: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    “The Horror At Redhook” by H.P. LovecraftLovecraft Country by Matt RuffThe Night Ocean by Paul LaFargeLone Women by Victor LaValleThe Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft“The Lovecraft Boomlet” of adaptions/retellings/reworkingsAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeerThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadGet Out directed by Jordan PeeleTa-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther run, Between the World and Me, The Water DancerThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe World Fantasy AwardMichael Crichton, Jurassic ParkKindred by Octavia ButlerSlapboxing with Jesus by Victor LaValleJames by Percival EverettAida Levy-Hussen’s How to Read African American Literature- reparative & prohibitive readingsToni Morrison’s BelovedP. Djùlí Clark’s Ring Shout“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe ShelleyHPL’s At the Mountains of Madness"Lovecraft in Brooklyn" by The Mountain Goats, from Heretic PrideVajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright DoorsR.F. Kuang’s Babel, or The Necessity of ViolenceGarrett's twitterPauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood
  • A Meal of Thorns 10 – TAINARON with Shinjini Dey

    A Meal of Thorns 10 – TAINARON with Shinjini Dey

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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 Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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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  • A Meal of Thorns 09 – PATTERN RECOGNITION with Sunny Moraine

    A Meal of Thorns 09 – PATTERN RECOGNITION with Sunny Moraine

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    Guest: Sunny MoraineTitle: Pattern Recognition by William GibsonHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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 MiĂ©ville’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
  • A Meal of Thorns 08 – GILDED NEEDLES with Juan Martinez

    A Meal of Thorns 08 – GILDED NEEDLES with Juan Martinez

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    Guest: Juan MartinezTitle: Gilded Needles by Michael McDowellHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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 MisĂ©rablesTriangle 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 & twoï»żFollow Juan on Instagram & Threads for the good doodle content
  • A Meal of Thorns 07 – THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with Amal El-Mohtar

    A Meal of Thorns 07 – THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with Amal El-Mohtar

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    Guest: Amal El-MohtarTitle: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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
  • A Meal of Thorns 06 – THE PASSION with Dan Hartland

    A Meal of Thorns 06 – THE PASSION with Dan Hartland

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    Host: Jake Casella BrookinsGuest: Dan HartlandTitle: The Passion by Jeanette WintersonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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 MiĂ©ville’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 10Âœ 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
  • A Meal of Thorns 05 – THE EMPLOYEES with A.V. Marraccini

    A Meal of Thorns 05 – THE EMPLOYEES with A.V. Marraccini

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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 Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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 FiascoAngĂ©lica 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
  • A Meal of Thorns 04 – PERELANDRA with Taylor Driggers

    A Meal of Thorns 04 – PERELANDRA with Taylor Driggers

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    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.

    A Meal of Thorns is a podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.

    Credits:

    Guest: Taylor Driggers Title: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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)Contact

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  • A Meal of Thorns 03 – PIRANESI with Misha Grifka Wander

    A Meal of Thorns 03 – PIRANESI with Misha Grifka Wander

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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 Bhartáč›hari, translated by John Brough

    References:

    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 Detective

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  • A Meal of Thorns 02 – DEAD COLLECTIONS with Roseanna Pendlebury

    A Meal of Thorns 02 – DEAD COLLECTIONS with Roseanna Pendlebury

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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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    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.