Listen "S02:E10 | Little Reviews: Books About Fallout (feat. Joy Williams, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Nona Fernández, and Virginia Woolf)"
Episode Synopsis
It's Little Reviews time, and today we're talking about fallout: the space of personal crises in post-crucible societies. I've got four books on the docket, all of them book club picks:Harrow by Joy Williams, an ABC pick for JuneHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, an ABC pick for JulySpace Invaders by Nona Fernández (trans. Natasha Wimmer), an ABC pick for JuneMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, an original ABC pick from January, which we revisited in MarchA NOTE ON CONTENT & SPOILERSI highly encourage you to look into content warnings for every book I discuss before you pick it up; we want reading to be safe for everyone. <3I refuse to spoil plot, but I do talk about what you can glean from the book jacket, authorial and narrative choices, formal elements, and my overall impressions and takeaways. If you're wary of getting spoiled on *anything,* then maybe bookmark this episode and come back when you've read the books herein.Take care, keep creating, and stay divine!ResourcesS02:E03 | Little Reviews: Books About the Aftermath | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Space Invaders, in re: the quality of "haze" in writingThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, and Mona by Pola Oloixarac | Referenced in this episode's discussion of HarrowHades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel, The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch, and Salt Houses by Hala Alyan | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Space Invaders The Awakening by Kate Chopin, or the graphic novel A History of Violence by John Wagner and Vince Locke, and Terminator (film) | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Mrs. DallowayIG: @littleoracles
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