A Meal of Thorns 05 – THE EMPLOYEES with A.V. Marraccini

A Meal of Thorns

More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.

Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!

Credits:

• Guest: A.V. Marraccini
• Title: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor
• Anton Hur’s Toward Eternity and Casella’s review
• A.V.’s forthcoming book, These New Fragilities
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-Stars
• Presses discussed:
• Lolli Editions
• New Directions
• FSG Press
• Fitzarraldo
• Seven Stories
• Tor
• Inside the Castle
• Kristina Carlson’s Eunuch translated from the Finnish by Mikko Alapuro
• Psychedlic Ray Bradbury covers
• Jenny Hval’s novels, such as Paradise Rot
• Samuel R. Delany
• Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors
• Gretchen Felker-Martin Manhunt and Cuckoo
• John Trefry
• Olga Ravn's My Work
• Lea Guldditte Hestelund's sculpture
• Interview with Ravn about Hestelund
• Le Guin's Carrier Bag theory of fiction
• Arthur C. Clarke/Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
• Stanislaw Lem’s Fiasco
• Angélica Gorodischer
• Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
• Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner
• Battlestar Galactica
• Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
• Jorge Luis Borges & Italo Calvino
• E. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of Stars
• Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
• Ravn's Twitter @OlgaRavn
• AV on Twitter @saintsoftness