166: Mona Awad (ALL'S WELL) and Sara Gran's COME CLOSER

In This Episode:

Mona Awad joins the guys in the zooming Damn Library to talk her new novel, All's Well, which means talk about Shakespeare, and destiny, and magic happening, and chronic pain - all the fun stuff. Then she brought Sara Gran's Come Closer and everyone got to be possessed by the demon that is Sara Gran's writing style. Can you hear that scratching too?

The Ep. 166 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

All’s Well by Mona Awad
Come Closer by Sara Gran

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew — The Beast in Aisle 34 by Darren Doyle // Reprieve by James Han Mattison // To Drown in Dark Water by Steve Toase
Christopher — This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno // Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis
Mona — The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson // Reckless EP by Leathers

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Bunny by Mona Awad
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Claire deWitt novels by Sara Gran
Saturn’s Return to New York by Sara Gran
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
Mumbai New York Scranton by Tamara Shopsin

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew — The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington // The Fisherman by John Langan
Christopher — LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin // “The Circle” (2020-present)
Mona — Looker by Laura Sims // A Place in the Sun (1951, dir. by George Stevens) // the You Must Remember This episode about Montgomery Clift

The Damn Bar