Episode Forty-Two: Alexander Chee

In This Episode:

Alexander Chee drops by the Damn Library for a Lilliet to celebrate his titanic new novel The Queen of the Night and to discuss Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You. Fidelity, prostitutes, and Lillet ensue. 

Other highlights:

* Technical difficulties!
* #freeKe$ha
* seriously, more prostitutes than your average SMDB ep

LISTEN:

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The Ep. 42 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
Christopher: Maud's Line by Margaret Verble and The Time of the Witch by Mary Downing Hahn
Alexander: Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

ALSO MENTIONED:

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Clasp by Sloane Crosley
Christopher: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Alexander: Hav by Jan Morris
BONUS OPERA RECS FROM ALEXANDER:
La sonnambula (Bellini)
Il trovatore (Verdi)
Carmen (Bizet)
Un ballo in maschera (Verdi)
Cendrillon (Viardot)
Partenope (Handel)