Episode Seventy: Rosecrans Baldwin
In This Episode:
Rosecrans Baldwin, who indirectly provided the beginning for the SMDB podcast, stops by the Damn Library to talk about his exceptional "HBO series of a novel," The Last Kid Left. We talk about youth, getting your characters right, and reading The Economist in bed. Then we head to Brighton with Graham Greene's Brighton Rock.
Other Highlights:
* how Graham Greene helped Rosecrans meet his wife
* how Rosecrans helped the guys meet, both spiritually and literally
* TEQULIA
* We launched a Patreon! And we're about to send out some mailings, wink wink, so...
LISTEN:
THE EP. 70 BOOKSHELF
(CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS DISCUSSED WHILE RECORDING)
THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:
The Last Kid Left by Rosecrans Baldwin
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Drew: The Glamshack by Paul Cohen and Planet Grim by Alex Behr
Christopher: The Hot One by Carolyn Murnick
Rosecrans: Racquet
ALSO MENTIONED:
You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin
Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Twin Peaks
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
King Dork by Frank Portman
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
The Ripliad by Patricia Highsmith
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp by George Saunders
Threats by Amelia Gray
Gutshot by Amelia Gray
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
Permanent Rose by Hilary McKay
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Christopher: Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay
Drew: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Rosecrans: Isadora by Amelia Gray
