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.
A Meal of Thorns is a podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
Credits:
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
References:
- Misha’s interviews with Sofia Samatar and Vajra Chandrasekera
- Exordia by Seth Dickinson
- Arrival (Villeneuve’s adaptation of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”)
- Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman
- Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
- Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven’s film adaptation)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Through the Looking Glass & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Christopher Nolan’s Memento
- Philosopher’s including John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Rawls
- Augustine’s Confessions
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
- The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
- David Lynch’s Twin Peaks
- Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective
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