A Meal of Thorns 36 – UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD with Eleanor McAdam
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Eleanor McAdamTitle: Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa YonedaHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Current Research in Science FictionVanishing World by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriAnnie Bot by Sierra GreerEmily Tesh’s The Incandescent and Some Desperate GloryNiall Harrison’s Locus review of Under The Eye Of The Big BirdAdrian Tchaikovsky's Service ModelJ.G. BallardStephen Baxter's EvolutionWilliam Hope Hogdson's The Night LandX-MenIsaac Asimov's FoundationMargaret Atwood MaddAddam TrilogyKurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Cat's CradleErika Swyler's We Lived On The HorizonKazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun & Never Let Me GoAdrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time
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A Meal of Thorns 35 – 60 Stories with Timothy Moore
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Timothy MooreTitle: 60 Stories by Donald BarthelmeHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Timothy Moore’s I Will Teach You RetributionJoan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock & Peter Weir’s film adaptationMolly Templeton’s Bluesky request for Australian Gothic“Intermittent Anhedonia”Ethan Rutherford's North SunEvening House Books"The School"Close Reading for the 21st Century edited by Dan Sinykin & Johanna WinantAlduous Huxley’s Brave New World"The Lottery""Me and Miss Mandible""A Shower of Gold""Eugénie Grandet"Sidney Lumet’s Network"The Balloon""The Great Hug"We somehow completely failed to reference E.E. Cumming’s “In Just – spring” for balloon-man reasonsKeita Takahashi's Katamari DamacyUb Iwerk’s Balloon LandWill McMahon“A Manual for Sons”Barthelme’s The Dead FatherWes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic"The Policeman's Ball"Vercingetorix"The King of Jazz"Julio CortázarIshmael ReedKelly LinkEd ParkElwin CotmanNana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahAimee Bender's Girl in the Flammable SkirtGeorge SaundersGarielle LutzDalkey ArchivesSmall Beer PressZachary Gillan & our Authority episode“Reading Weird Fiction in a Time of Fascism”Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid, translated by Sean CotterLiliana Costanzi’s You Glow in the DarkThomas Ha's Uncertain SonsEd Park's An Oral History of AtlantisBrian Evenson“Lonely Rolling Star” by Saki Kabata and Yoshihito Yano off the first Katamari gameBilly Bletcher as the Pincushion Man in Ub Iwerks’ Balloon Land, music by Carl Staling“You’re the Cream in My Coffee” recorded by Miff Mole and His Little Molers“Perdido Street Blues” by Louis Armstrong and Sydney BechetCharlie Parker’s “Billie’s Bounce”
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A Meal of Thorns 34 – BURNING BRIGHT with Ursula Whitcher
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:North Continent RibbonIndra Das’s The Last Dragoners of BowbazarFonda Lee's Green Bone books & game thereof w/ James Mendez HodesBruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon HatcherThomas Ha's Uncertain SonsScott’s Trouble And Her Friends & Astreiant series, most recently Point of HeartsC.S. Lewis's PerelandraMargaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novelsDon Daglow’s Neverwinter NightsCommedia dell'arteThe Marvel Cinematic Universe franchiseLAN partiesC.J. Cherryh's Foreigner booksArkardy Martine's Teixcalaan booksIain M. Banks' Player of GamesNeal Stephenson's Snow CrashCameron Reed's Fortunate FallIain Softley’s HackersWilliam Gibson's Blue Ant trilogyCharlie Jane AndersBruce SterlingMichael Swanwick's Stations of the TideUrsula's website & Bluesky
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A Meal of Thorns 33 – THE FIFTH SEASON with Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Joy Sanchez-TaylorTitle: The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Author of ColorRoutledge Handbook of Co-FuturismsDispelling Fantasies: Author of Color Re-Imagine a GenreIbi Zoboi's SkinExamples of YA novels in verse from the Boston Public LibraryLiliana Colanzi You Glow in the Dark, translated by Chris AndrewsCenter for Fiction BrooklynPuppygateJemisin’s 2018 Hugo Acceptance SpeechSylvia Moreno Garcia, Nnedi Okorafor, Nghi VoJemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, The City We BecameTomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and BoneMoses Ose Utomi’s The Lies of the AjungoUrsula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”Octavia E. Butler’s Parable seriesThe Elder Scrolls games Morrowind & SkyrimJemisin on race in SkyrimMarlon James’ Black Leopard, Red WolfLatinx Visions Conference, Nov 3-7Marianna EnriquezAnanda Lima's CraftColson Whitehead, Amal El-MohtarNghi Vo's Singing Hills & The City In GlassJoy’s BlueskySuzan Palumbo, Zig Zag ClaybourneVICFAWorld Fantasy Convention
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A Meal of Thorns 32 – AUTHORITY with Zachary Gillan
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Zachary GillanTitle: Authority by Jeff VanderMeerHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Zach’s Profane Illuminations column at ARBRobert AickmanBothayna Al-Essa’s The Book-Censor's Library, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad HussainBohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, translated by Michael Henry HeimAnnihilation, Acceptance, and AbsolutionVanderMeer’s blogVanderMeer’s Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; FinchAnn & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark StoriesMKUltraStanislaw Lem’s Solaris, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (from Jean-Michel Jasiensko’s French translation) and Bill Johnston (from the Polish)Boris & Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena BormashenkoAndrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and StalkerAlex Garland's AnnihilationCormac McCarthy's The RoadKay Chronister's Desert CreaturesRoland Emmerich’s The Day After TomorrowDamon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s The LeftoversBruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: the Animated SeriesTimothy Morton’s Dark Ecology and other workVanderMeer’s Hummingbird SalamanderThomas Ha's Uncertain SonsJean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.
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