219: Rachel Lyon's FRUIT OF THE DEAD & Tessa Hadley's THE PAST
In This Episode:
Rachel Lyon returns to talk about her new novel, Fruit of the Dead, and how it wasn’t always a Persephone myth retelling, she found that along the way. Plus, we get into the “generative fill” of reading, and I pontificate on dust mote fiction, inspired by the fetid summer heat within the pages of Tessa Hadley’s The Past. Read along!
THE EP. 219 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Rachel: Custom compact mirrors for her publishing team
Christopher: The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir Jami Nakamura Lin, Piglet by Lottie Hazell
ALSO MENTIONED:
Pete’s Reading Series
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon
The Magus by John Fowles
King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
The work of E. Nesbit
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
Free Love by Tessa Hadley
The New Me by Halle Butler
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Rachel: O Caledonia! by Elspeth Barker, Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Christopher: Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
