231: Rosalind Brown (PRACTICE) & Lisa Robertson's The Baudelaire Fractal
In This Episode:
Rosalind Brown makes her airwaves debut in this one, talking about her debut novel Practice, which means talking about Shakespeare, and using white space on the page, and the various intimacies of point of view. Plus, she brought along The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson, a jubilant novel of thoughts that feels perfectly aligned with Practice. Pick up your pens and your pencils and your listening devices, it’s time to podcast!
THE EP. 231 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Rosalind: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
Christopher: Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
ALSO MENTIONED:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Ulysses by James Joyce
“Ode To a Nightingale” by John Keats
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Essays One & Two by Lydia Davis
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare
A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Still Life by A.S. Byatt
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Middlemarch by George Eliot
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Rosalind: Milkman by Anna Burns, My Phantoms and First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Christopher: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
