A Meal of Thorns 12 – MELMOTH with Jon Greenaway
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Credits:
- Guest: Jon Greenaway
- Title: Melmoth by Sarah Perry
- Host: Jake Casella Brookins
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
References:
- Jon's latest books: Capitalism: A Horror Story and A Primer On Utopian Philosophy
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Fredric Jameson’s The Years of Theory
- Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo
- Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
- Napoleon Dynamite, dir. Jared Hess
- Carmen Maria Machado, George Saunders
- Leyna Krow’s Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids
- Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
- Perry’s The Essex Serpent and Enlightenment
- Perry’s essay on writing while in pain/on painkillers
- Goethe’s Faust, Dante’s Inferno, the myth of the Wandering Jew
- Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
- Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
- China Mieville's idea of anti-fantasy
- Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
- “participatory anthropology”
- Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- Wagner’s Parsifal
- God's Not Dead, dir. Harold Cronk
- Heidegger's idea of thrownness (Geworfenheit)
- Philosophical theories of “the gift” and “impossible exchange”
- Christopher Priest’s The Prestige
- Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Slaughterhouse-Five
- Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall and The Saint of Bright Doors
- Premee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning Grass
- Horror Vanguard
- Jon’s Blog & Substack
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