Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction
Kate and Cassie read Victoria Gosling's Bliss and Blunder, Sophie Keetch's Morgan is my Name, Joel Deane's Judas Boys and Mona Awad's Rouge with novelist A J Betts and theatre writer Tom Wright
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Explore " mona awad" with insightful episodes like "Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction", "The pursuit of Perfect Skin", "Pockets and Fashion in Books And Culture", "Episode 64: Weird Era feat. Mona Awad" and "Summer Reading Assignments: EJ's Report on Bunny" from podcasts like ""The Bookshelf", "Voices of The Walrus", "Books Are My People", "Weird Era" and "Fantasy+Girls Podcast"" and more!
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The pursuit of Perfect Skin
Mona Awad felt giddy whenever she burned her face with a cultish acid - all in the pursuit of perfect skin
Voices of The Walrus
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Pockets and Fashion in Books And Culture
Today, on episode #108, I speak with Hannah Carlson, who has a PHD in material culture, to talk about her book, Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close.
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Episode 64: Weird Era feat. Mona Awad
About Mona Awad:
Mona Awad is the author of the novels All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Bunny was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award and the New England Book Award. It was named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. All’s Well was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Awad’s forthcoming novel Rouge, is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. This spring, Margaret Atwood named Awad her ‘literary heir’ in The New York Times’s T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.
About Rouge:
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.
Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.
Summer Reading Assignments: EJ's Report on Bunny
As we wrap up the summer, E. J. and Emma have completed their summer reading and are ready to report back. Emma assigned E. J. to read Bunny by Mona Awad, a speculative/horror cult favorite with shocking twists and a lot of takes. Bunny, we have a lot to talk about. Egregious spoilers ahead.
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Summer Reading Series: Emma's Assignment for EJ
FANTASY+GIRL Podcast is back with a new series celebrating summer reading! Emma and EJ are
choosing a book for the other to read. The duo will then lead a deep dive into the chosen stories on the podcast! Which book did Emma choose for EJ?
BUNNY by Mona Awad. Emma chose this book hoping to appeal to EJ’s love of weird—but well
written—speculative fiction. EJ loves Catherine House and Her Fearful Symmetry—and Emma thinks
Bunny fits nicely with those titles (even if it is a bit weirder…possibly even darker?). The story has dark academia vibes with a dose of Mean Girls…but with magic and monsters. Sort of…
How can you join the fun? Easy! Read Bunny, and let the Emma and EJ know what you think!
You can comment on their social media or email them at fantasygirlpodcast@gmail.com
Bunny, we can’t wait to hear from you!
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Bunny
This week we’re reading Bunny by Mona Awad
We’re talking unsettling books, separating delusion from reality and Holly’s theory that might make it all make sense.
We’re also talking pointlessness as a point, obfuscation in storytelling and the dangers of throwing stones in glass houses.
Holly’s not sure how she feels about this book but she thinks she likes it, Harley’s not sure how she feel about this book but she's increasingly certain she doesn't like it.
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A moon colony, T S Eliot, Shakespeare and pain: new fiction from Emily St John Mandel, Steven Carroll and Mona Awad
Cassie is away this week, so Kate is joined by the ABC's Tiger Webb: reading Emily St John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, Steven Carroll's Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, and Mona Awad's Allâs Well, with novelist Rhett Davis and critic Nicole Abadee