174: Eugene Lim (SEARCH HISTORY) and César Aira's CONVERSATIONS

In This Episode:

Eugene Lim stops by the Damn Library to discuss his novel Search History, which sends the conversation careening from AI to authenticity to writing theatrically to songwriting to rainy day ideas, and that spiral leads (as it often does) to discussing César Aira and his work, particularly Conversations. Listen up!

The Ep. 174 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Search History by Eugene Lim
Conversations by César Aira, trans. by Kathleen Silver

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew — Brian Evenson x 4! The Open Curtain / Last Days / Father of Lies / A Collapse of Horses
Christopher — Camera Man by Dana Stevens
Eugene — O.B.B. by Paolo Javier

ALSO MENTIONED:

Fog and Car by Eugene Lim
The Strangers by Eugene Lim
Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
Careless Love by Peter Guralnick
The Basement Food Court of Forking Paths by Eugene Lim (from Breaking + Entering Press)
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira, trans. by Chris Andrews
The Literary Conference by César Aira, trans. by Katherine Silver
The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira by César Aira, trans. by Katherine Silver
Shantytown by César Aira, trans. by Chris Andrews
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, dir. by Luis Buñuel)
The Trees by Percival Everett

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew — If A Leaf Falls press // the live-action Cowboy Bebop
Christopher — Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders
Eugene — Telephone by Percival Everett

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