Episode One Hundred and Nine: Halle Butler

In This Episode:

Halle Butler joins Christopher and Drew in the Damn Library to discuss her new novel, The New Me, and how she thought of domestic thrillers while she wrote it, and tried to create comedy out of millennial burnout and not having the clearest picture of yourself. Plus, she brings in Samuel Beckett's Molloy, and there's a robust discussion of voice and sucking stones, amongst other subjects. Also, what's that song she's talking about?

The Ep. 109 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

The New Me by Halle Butler
Molloy by Samuel Beckett

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Stories by Franz Kafka, trans. by Alexander Starritt // American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
Halle: Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy // The Waves by Virginia Woolf // Moods by Rachel Glazer // Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë
Christopher: The Travelers by Regina Porter

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
Hairdo by Rachel B. Glazer
The Mini Bar by PUNCH
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Repulsion (1965)
Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
Jillian by Halle Butler
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
the works of Jesse Ball
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
True West by Sam Shepard
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Marlena by Julie Buntin
”Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Endgame by Samuel Beckett // Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Halle: Blue Steel (1990)
Christopher: Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith

The Damn Bar