Episode Eighty-Five: John Darnielle

In This Episode:

The astounding John Darnielle (yes, he of The Mountain Goats) blows into the Damn Library on the heels of a rainstorm and dives right into a jam-packed conversation about writing, music, addiction, fright, translated literature, and so much more. AND THEN they get to talking about Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester, and Mathias Énard's one-sentence(-ish) novel Zone.

The Ep. 85 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Zone by Mathias Énard

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: a 2018 subscription to Transit Books
Christopher: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
John: a collection of Manly Wade Wellman

ALSO MENTIONED:

Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
Master of Reality by John Darnielle
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
Brief Lives by John Aubrey
The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Martha Tennent
History: A Novel by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante, translated by Isabel Quigley
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Richard Howard
La Maison de Rendez-Vous by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Richard Howard
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
A Void by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
On Writing by Stephen King
Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Open Letter Press
Archipelago Books
Charco Press
New Directions Publishing

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark and The Fall by Albert Camus
Christopher: Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
John: The Tunnel by William H. Gass // the writings of Thucydides
 

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