227: Holly Gramazio (THE HUSBANDS) & Zito Madu's THE MINOTAUR AT CALLE LANZA
In This Episode:
Holly Gramazio drops by via the magic of Zoom to talk her magical summer blockbuster of a book, The Husbands. She gets into its origin as a computer game, a lack of supernatural solutions, and why it used to have the moon falling apart. Plus, she brings along the surreal-but-still-relatable Zito Madu’s The Minotaur at Calle Lanza, and reveals she’s just been to Venice. Read on, compadres!
THE EP. 227 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Holly: The Default World by Naomi Kanakia, Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin, Probably Nothing by Lauren Bravo, Munari. I libri by Giorgio Maffei
Christopher: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
ALSO MENTIONED:
Fantasy by Bruno Munari
Original Xerographies by Bruno Munari
Groundhog Day (1993, dir. Harold Ramis)
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton
Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Holly: The Wanderers by Meg Howrey, Chop up some spring onions, pop them in some lemon, drain some cannelini beans, add in a can of fancy tuna, add in your lemon + spring onion mixture, some oil, some salt on top, the video games Chants of Sennaar, Dicey Dungeons, Cult of the Lamb
Christopher: Cleopatra & Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
