243: Allison King (THE PHOENIX PENCIL COMPANY) & Anton Hur's TOWARD ETERNITY
In This Episode:
Pencils UP, everyone! Point their sharpened points straight to the sky, because Allison King, author of the endlessly inventive Phoenix Pencil Company, drops by the virtual library to talk all things pencils and magic and the one book that changed her life. Plus, she brings along Anton Hur’s novel in stories, about AI and robots and poetry, Toward Eternity.
THE EP. 243 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Allison: The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt, Empire of AI by Karen Hao, Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson
Christopher: Discontent by Beatriz Serrano transl. by Mara Faye Lethem, Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
ALSO MENTIONED:
The New Me by Halle Butler
Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ministry of Time by Kalianne Bradley
Luminous by Sylvia Park
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Bear (Hulu)
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Allison: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman, The Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
Christopher: Five Star Stranger by Kat Tang
