185: Mat Johnson (INVISIBLE THINGS) and Claire North's NOTES FROM A BURNING AGE
In This Episode:
Mat Johnson launches into the Damn Library Zoom Zone to discuss his new novel, Invisible Things. We get into conspiracies, surprising yourself with your writing, teaching, writing funny, and a bunch of other stuff, including Claire North’s Notes from a Burning Age, and getting your sci-fi terms right.
THE EP. 185 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Mat: The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise
Momofuko Ramen Noodles
Bicycle Tent
Belts
Christopher:
The Night Shift by Natalka Burian
Please Report Your Bug Here by Josh Riedel
ALSO MENTIONED:
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
Pym by Mat Johnson
Hooked by A.C. Wise
Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe
Incognegro by Mat Johnson
UFO’s: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Czajkowski)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brief and Terrifying Reign of Phil by George Saunders
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Magicans by Lev Grossman
The Magicians (SYFY)
Notes from a Burning Age by Claire North
Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Touch by Claire North
The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
The Gamehouse by Claire North
Planetfall by Emma Newman
The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Casey
The Book of Koli by M.R. Casey
Bunny by Mona Awad
Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World by Lucy Ives
Manhunt (Apple TV)
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Mat: The Man Who Fell to Earth (Showtime)
Outer Range (Amazon Prime)
From (Epix)
Tales from the Loop (Amazon Prime)
Slow Horses (Apple TV)
Christopher: Jenny Nicholson’s The Church Play Cinematic Universe (YouTube)
