229: Lena Valencia (MYSTERY LIGHTS) & Muriel Spark's DRIVER'S SEAT
In This Episode:
Lena Valencia drops by the Damn Library, physically, and it’s a real nice time complete with a flashing drink you can’t see, because this is a podcast. Lena and I discuss her blockbuster, nearly a decade in the making, short story collection debut, Mystery Lights, and she brings along Muriel Spark’s Driver’s Seat, which is just as good as it gets. Read on!
THE EP. 229 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Lena: Woman of Interest by Tracy O’Neill at Sunny’s Bookshop
Christopher: The Pepsi-Cola Addict by June Alison Gibbons, The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson
ALSO MENTIONED:
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerny
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
Identikit/The Driver’s Seat dir. by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
The Vanishing by Tim Krabbé
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Lena: The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Vol l & ll by Emil Ferris
Christopher: Farscape, Practice by Rosalind Brown
