Episode Seventy-Four: Amelia Gray
In This Episode:
Amelia Gray swings into the Damn Library with her latest novel, Isadora, and Christopher makes *another* blue drink. Dance and lack-of-dance is discussed, misattributed, and generally enjoyed. Plus, everybody hops across the Hudson to Jersey City for Nell Zink's Nicotine!
Other Highlights:
* the Damn Library pops up in its new Park Slope iteration!
* activism: is it worth it?
* school's back in session!
* Join the Exquisite Corpse in our iTunes reviews! It's easy, rate us 5 stars and then add your segment!
LISTEN:
THE EP. 74 BOOKSHELF
(CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS DISCUSSED WHILE RECORDING)
THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:
Isadora by Amelia Gray
Nicotine by Nell Zink
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Drew: The Waking by Matthew Smith & Cane by Sam Bully-Thomas
Amelia: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood & The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Christopher: Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
ALSO MENTIONED:
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
Threats by Amelia Gray
Gutshot by Amelia Gray
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
Scratch by Steve Himmer
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan
My Life by Isadora Duncan
Mislaid by Nell Zink
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
Dancer by Colum McCann
Binary Star by Sarah Gerard
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Christopher: We Live in Public (2009)
Drew: The Answers by Catherine Lacey
Amelia: Valparaiso, Round the Horn by Madeline Ffitch & Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian
