contemporary literature

We get into spoilers starting at 16:30. If you want to avoid spoilers, skip ahead to 1:00:12 when indicated.

Links to things we talked about:

• Deadline: "Jeffrey Wright To Star In MRC and T-Street’s Untitled Cord Jefferson Film"
• Erasure and Dr. No by Percival Everett 
• The New York Times: "In a New Novel, Percival Everett Riffs Gleefully on 007" 
• Deadline: "'The Sympathizer’: Sandra Oh Among Three Cast In HBO & A24’s Drama Series Adaptation" & "‘The Sympathizer’: Five Join Robert Downey Jr. In HBO & A24’s Drama Series Adaptation"
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• Other major books in the "Mitchellverse" include:
   Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, and Utopia Avenue
• Ed Brubaker, famed comic book writer who's name sounds like a character in this book!
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Dark (2017-2020) by Baran bo Odar & Jantje Friese
• Cloud Atlas (2012) dir. by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, & Lilly Wachowski

A couple books coming in our 2023 season:

• Gideon the Ninth by  Tamsyn Muir 
• The "First Law" books by Joe Abercrombie

Shepherd.com: "Five Graphic Novels Just Begging to be Brought to the Screen"

• Black Hole by Charles Burns
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Sandman Mystery Theatre by Matt Wagner, Steven T. Seagle, Guy Davis, et al.
• I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason 
• Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

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In their conversation, Belinda McKeon and Kate Costello-Sullivan situate the rich spareness and reticence in McKeon’s fiction in its socio-cultural Irish context. They talk about navigating the balance between continuing literary traditions and creating innovative narratives; about the influence that settling down in the United States has had on McKeon’s style; about writing male characters and shifting to focus unapologetically on female characters; about motherhood and writing; and about the psyche and the body in her canon. McKeon also reads from her short story "Privacy" from the collection Being Various.