179: Sasha Fletcher (BE HERE TO LOVE ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD) & Benjamín Labatut’s WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD
In This Episode:
Sasha Fletcher physically drops in to the Damn Library. In the flesh. Christopher and Sasha are actually in the same room, chatting over cocktails. This is great, because Sasha’s novel Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is a very fun book to discuss without any zoom lag, and the conversation ranges from the Medicis to the purposes of art to the agony of first drafts. Plus, Sasha brings along When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, which elucidates the beauty and savagery of math and physics. Giddy up!
THE EP. 179 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christopher - Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou and You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Amezi
Sasha - a new tattoo that says “God’s in his heaven, all is right with the world”
ALSO MENTIONED:
Neon Genesis: Evangelion
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley, Verse by Seamus Heaney
The Odyssey by Homer, translation by Emily Wilson
Wings of Desire (film) dir. by Wim Wenders
Red Dead Redemption 2 released by Rockstar
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
A Beautiful Mind dir. Ron Howard
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Christopher - Take a bath, maybe use a Ouai Chill Pill
Sasha - Loving with an open heart
