209: Mona Awad (ROUGE) & Susanna Clarke's PIRANESI
In This Episode:
Mona Awad visits the Damn Library via the casual magic of web video for a third go round, this time for her bedeveling, garnet-bedazzled Rouge. She talks about putting her characters through the ringer, horror stories showing you a path, Tom Cruise, beauty cults, and more. Plus, both Mona and Christopher extol the many virtues of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, and how it came at exactly the right time.
THE EP. 209 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Mona: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, Scottish Ginger Snaps
Christopher: The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase transl. by Haydn Trowell, My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni transl. by Alex Andriesse
ALSO MENTIONED:
All’s Well by Mona Awad
Bunny by Mona Awad
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Margaret Atwood/Mona Awad Joint NYT Style Magazine Interview
”Snow, Glass, Apples” by Neil Gaiman
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Slade House by David Mitchell
Marnie (1964, dir. Hitchcock)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
Myst (1993, Cyan Ventures)
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Mona: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, Duchess of Nothing Heather McGowan
Christopher: Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker
