160: A.E. Osworth (WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT) and Patricia Lockwood's NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS

In This Episode:

When A.E. Osworth drops into the Damn Library to talk about their novel We Are Watching Eliza Bright, that means we get to really talk about the Internet, since that's where their novel is largely set. This is also how we talk about video games, and epistolary novels, and the process of getting a couple different choruses on the page. Plus, we talk about Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This, another Internet novel, getting very into the megabytes of how these two books treat their online spheres.

The Ep. 160 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew — A Big Storm Knocked It Over and Goodbye Without Leaving by Laurie Colwin // The Fisherman by John Langan (Contemporary Classics edition from Undertow Publications)
Christopher — Appleseed by Matt Bell // The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Austen — What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster // Luster by Raven Leilani // Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch // The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt // The Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

ALSO MENTIONED:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag
Motorman by David Ohle
Critical Role
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Zone by Mathias Enard
the PERN books by Anne McCaffrey

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew — Dead Souls by Sam Riviere // Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
Christopher — Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Austen — “the abstract concept of hope because this won’t be forever” // colorful jumpsuits from Wild Fang or Big Bud Press

The Damn Bar