200: Kelly Link (WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG) & Megan Giddings' THE WOMEN COULD FLY
In This Episode:
The one and only Kelly Link zooms into the Damn Library hypserspace to talk her spectacular new collection, White Cat, Black Dog. She gets into how the new collection got its footing in fairy tales, how she loves ghost stories but has never seen a ghost (and that’s okay), and discusses the magic of David Macaulay’s Motel of the Mysteries. She brought along Megan Giddings’ incredible The Women Could Fly, and we discuss how real its magic feels, and how books get tied to the place you read them. Along with a lot else besides!
THE EP. 200 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Kelly: American War by Oma El Akkad, Venco by Cherie Demaline, Go Back at Once by Robert Aikman, How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, Nature Stands Aside by Rosamund Purcell, The Tarot of Leonora Carrington Text by Tere Arcq, Susan Aberth, Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Goodnight Little Bookstore by Amy Cherrix, Dungeon by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim
Christopher: Y/N by Esther Yi, The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
ALSO MENTIONED:
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Magic for Beginners by Kelly LInk
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The Exhibition of Persephone Q by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
The Merry Spinster by Daniel M. Lavery
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (editorial note: it’s 47k, not 45k)
Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings translated by Megan McDowell
Red Clocks by Margaret Atwood
The Talking Parcel by Gerald Durrell
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Little by Edward Carey
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Kelly: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, and the rest of her work, and 30 Coins (HBO Max), Plagues and Pencils by Edward Carey
Christopher: Chameleon: Dr. Dante
