248: Patrick Ryan (BUCKEYE) & Christopher Isherwood's A SINGLE MAN
In This Episode:
One Story Editor-in-Chief Patrick Ryan drops into the Damn Library Soda Shoppe for a chocolate peanut butter egg cream and a chat about his much-lauded novel Buckeye. We chat about a family secret that fueled the book, how he achieves the right tone, and how he discovered the spirit realm on the page. Plus, he brings along Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man, and we slightly debate the ending.
THE EP. 248 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Patrick: The Colonel and the King by Peter Guralnick, Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
Christopher: A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé, translated by Alison Anderson, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous, translated by Ann Goldstein
ALSO MENTIONED:
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
Careless Love by Peter Guralnick
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Maurice (1987, dir. James Ivory)
A Single Man (2009, dir. Tom Ford)
Cabaret (1972, dir. Bob Fosse)
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The work of Edmund White
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
The Odyssey by Emily Wilson
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Patrick: Atomic Hearts by Megan Cummins, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee, The Iliad by Emily Wilson
Christopher: Crooks by Lou Berney
