Lost in Redonda
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<p>A podcast discussing backlist gems and the Spanish writer Javier Marías, late the King of Redonda. In Season 2 we read the novels of Muriel Spark. From Lori Feathers and Tom Flynn.</p>
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June 7, 2024
Episode 27: "I Hotel" by Karen Tei Yamashita, w/ special guest Josh Cook
<p>We’re joined today by Josh Cook. Josh is a bookseller and co-owner at <a href="https://www.portersquarebooks.com/">Porter Square Books</a> in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is the author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel <em>An Exaggerated Murder</em> and most recently of <em>The Art of Libromancy: Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century</em>, published by our friends at Biblioasis.</p><p>We chat about his work as well as <em>I Hotel</em> by Karen Tei Yamashita, published by Coffee House Press. Some words get thrown around a bit too often and are frequently misapplied. However, <em>I Hotel</em> is absolutely a masterpiece. To give any kind of synopsis is to do the book (and you) a disservice, but in a somewhat quixotic attempt at that: this is a novel comprised of novellas, all set in the San Francisco of the late 60s and early 70s exploring the revolutionary movements (political, cultural, artistic, romantic, and everything that makes life a dazzling experience) of that time and place. It’s a wide-ranging conversation and one we hope you’ll find as exciting and engaging as we did.</p><p>Books/authors mentioned (another curriculum for you!):</p><p>all of Yamashita’s other works (Tropic of Cancer is next up for Tom, he thinks)</p><p>Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli</p><p>White Teeth by Zadie Smith</p><p>Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit, translated by Daniel Hahn</p><p>Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine</p><p>The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer</p><p>Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon</p><p>Underworld by Don DeLillo</p><p>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace</p><p>If you’d like to read a bit more about/from Yamashita, here’s a LitHub article Josh wrote “<a href="https://lithub.com/why-everyone-should-read-the-great-karen-tei-yamashita/">Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita</a>” and another LitHub article on the “<a href="https://link.lithub.com/view/6041228545870a0d627957aal0p21.2dfu/031491b0">The Craft of Writing</a>” by Yamashita herself.</p><p>To hear more from Josh follow him on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/joshthelibromancer/">@joshthelibromancer</a>) and Bluesky (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/joshthelibromancer.bsky.social">@joshthelibromancer</a>), and follow Porter Square Books on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/porter_square_books/">@porter_square_books</a>), Bluesky (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/portersqbooks.bsky.social">@portersqbooks</a>), and Threads (<a href="https://www.threads.net/@porter_square_books">@porter_square_books</a>).</p><p>Click <a href="https://lostinredonda.substack.com/">here</a> to subscribe to our Substack and find us on the socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lostinredonda/?hl=en">@lostinredonda </a>just about everywhere.</p><p>Music: “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” by Traffic</p><p>Logo design: Flynn Kidz Designs</p>
May 6, 2024
Episode 26: "Wild Milk: Stories" by Sabrina Orah Mark, w/ special guest Lara Ehrlich
<p>We’re joined today by <a href="http://www.laraehrlich.com/">Lara Ehrlich</a>, a writer, editor, and longtime friend (she and Tom go back 20 years, which seems impossible). Her first story collection, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/animal-wife-lara-ehrlich/14952575?ean=9781597098847"><em>Animal Wife</em></a>, was published by Red Hen Press back in 2020, and her first novel, <em>Bind Me Tighter Still</em>, will publish in 2025, also from Red Hen. She also hosts a conversation series, <a href="http://www.writermothermonster.com/">Writer Mother Monster</a>, and is the founder and director of <a href="http://www.thoughtfox.org/">Thought Fox Writers Den</a>.</p><p>We chat about her work as well as <em>Wild Milk: Stories</em> by Sabrina Orah Mark, published by Dorothy, A Publishing Project. It’s a fantastic collection: feral, fleshly, and truly wild in its imagination and skill. We spend a great deal of the episode just digging into all the things that make these stories work and the many, many things we don’t understand how Mark pulls off so well. One of our favorite conversations so far!</p><p>Authors mentioned (another curriculum for you!):</p><p>Lydia Davis</p><p>Karen Russell</p><p>Kelly Link</p><p>Katherine Dunn</p><p>Ali Smith</p><p>Marie Ndiaye</p><p>Angela Carter</p><p>Elizabeth McCracken</p><p>Aimee Bender</p><p>Amber Sparks</p><p>Amelia Gray</p><p>Ramona Ausubel</p><p>To hear more from Lara follow her on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/lara.ehrlich/">@lara.ehrlich</a>) and Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaraEhrlich">@TheLaraEhrlich</a>), and follow Thought Fox on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thoughtfoxwritersden/">@thoughtfoxwritersden</a>) and Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/ThoughtFoxDen">@ThoughtFoxDen</a>). And be sure to pre-order <em>Bind Me Tighter Still</em> from your preferred indie bookseller!</p><p>Click <a href="https://lostinredonda.substack.com/">here</a> to subscribe to our Substack and find us on the socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lostinredonda/?hl=en">@lostinredonda </a>just about everywhere.</p><p>Music: “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” by Traffic</p><p>Logo design: Flynn Kidz Designs</p>
April 5, 2024
Episode 25: "Austerlitz" by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, w/ special guest Mark Haber
<p>We’re joined today by Mark Haber of Coffee House Press (formerly of Brazos Bookstore in Houston). Mark is the author of two novels, <em>Reinhardt’s Garden</em> and <em>Saint Sebastian’s Abyss</em>, and the forthcoming novel <em>Lesser Ruins</em>, as well as a forthcoming novella, <em>Ada</em>. We chat about his work as well as <em>Austerlitz</em> by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell. A quick note that there was some construction noise we didn’t detect during the recording but did get picked up by our mics. We’ve eliminated it to the best of our ability, but if you hear a bit of an odd thrumming in the background or our voices crackle, it’s not your ears.</p><p>This is a fantastic and wide-ranging conversation, really digging into a lot of what makes Sebald’s work unique (and how it does or does not influence Mark’s own work). We discuss memory, liminality, style, surveillance and organization, the lack of literary feuds on TikTok, and more.</p><p>Titles/authors mentioned:</p><p>W.G. Sebald (all of it, but especially):<em>Vertigo</em>, <em>A Place in the Country</em>, and <em>Campo Santo</em></p><p>Sergio Chejfec: <em>The Dark</em> and <em>My Two Worlds</em></p><p>Javier Marías</p><p>Franz Kafka</p><p>D.H. Lawrence: <em>Lady Chatterley’s Lover</em>,<em> The Rainbow</em>, and<em> Sons & Lovers</em></p><p>Anthony Trollope (like, all of him)</p><p>Juan Jose Saer: <em>Scars</em> and <em>The Sixty-Five Years of Washington</em></p><p>Kazuo Ishiguro: <em>The Unconsoled</em></p><p>Follow Mark on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/markhaber/">@markhaber</a>) and follow Coffee House on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/coffeehousepress">@coffeehousepress</a>) and Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/Coffee_House_">@Coffee_House_</a>). And be sure to pre-order <em>Lesser Ruins</em> from your preferred indie bookseller!</p><p>Click <a href="https://lostinredonda.substack.com/">here</a> to subscribe to our Substack and find us on the socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lostinredonda/?hl=en">@lostinredonda </a>just about everywhere.</p><p>Music: “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” by Traffic</p><p>Logo design: Flynn Kidz Designs</p>
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<p>A podcast discussing backlist gems and the Spanish writer Javier Marías, late the King of Redonda. In Season 2 we read the novels of Muriel Spark. From Lori Feathers and Tom Flynn.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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