Episode Forty-Nine: Alexandra Kleeman

In This Episode:

Alexandra Kleeman returns to the Damn Library, this time bringing short stories! The guys, delighted, welcome her back with sangria. She also brings a masterwork of metafiction in Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants to blow their minds.

Other highlights:

* Things get metafictional and metapodcastional
* How to be a person-person
* When books talk to each other, everybody wins

LISTEN:

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THE EP. 49 BOOKSHELF

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Intimations: Stories by Alexandra Kleeman
Pricksongs and Descants: Stories by Robert Coover

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Ashes of Fiery Weather by Kathleen Donohoe and Joy Ride by John Lahr
Alexandra: Look by Solmaz Sharif and Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Christopher: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and How to Start a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball

ALSO MENTIONED:

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover
The Brunist Day of Wrath by Robert Coover
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
"Playing House" by Robert Coover
A Child Again by Robert Coover
Noir by Robert Coover
A Night at the Movies by Robert Coover
The Pickle Index by Eli Horowitz
"The Patchwork Girl" by Shirley Jackson
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
"A Report to the Academy" by Franz Kafka

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville and Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta
Christopher: Sex Criminals Vol. 3 - Three The Hard Way by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky and Patience by Daniel Clowes
Alexandra: Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada