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218: GennaRose Nethercott's FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART & Sabrina Orah Marks' HAPPILY

In This Episode:

GennaRose Nethercott returns to talk about her brand new story collection Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, stealing details from her friends, telling stories from the periphery, and how each tale in the book is about yearning. Also, thanks to Sabrina Orah Marks’ Happily, we discuss all form of fairy tales, and how they can tubocharge your selling power, you just have to ask us how. Real good listenin’!



 

THE EP. 218 BOOKSHELF

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

GennaRose: Laphroaig Quarter Cask Scotch Whisky, tiny bracelet charms, The Book of Love, three monsters
Christopher: The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch by Melinda Taub

ALSO MENTIONED:

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
The Lumberjack’s Dove by GennaRose Nethercott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Liana Fled the Cranberry Bog by GennaRose Nethercott
Important Artifacts by Leanne Shapton
GennaRose’s Ghost Piece on Lit Hub
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Short stories by Kelly Link
Short stories by Angela Carter
Short stories by Aimee Bender
Short stories by Ray Bradbury
”Fuck the bread, the bread is over” by Sabrina Orah Marks
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Bluebeard’s Castle by Anna Biller
The Love Witch (2016, dir. Anna Biller)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Radiolab’s Horsheshoe Crabs Episode
Going Bovine by Libba Bray

RECOMMENDATIONS:

GennaRose: Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, Tender by Sofia Samatar Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell, The Bloody Chamber by Angel Carter, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, The Diviners by Libba Bray, Girl with a Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Christopher: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

THE DAMN BAR: