jeff wood, author of the glacier (which we covered last week), joins the pod to talk about whether or not this book does, in fact, fit into our eco module. we talk about ohio literature, our love of two dollar radio (and how he hooked up with them), and how much work it took to adapt his writing from a screenplay into this novel. we talk about the meaning behind the title, the job of a land surveyor, and terrence malick’s work.

note: jeff’s pick for outro music (“powderfinger” by neil young) was met with such instantaneous copyright claims on both youtube and our podcast hosting platform that we left it out of the episode. instead, once you finish listening to this episode, head here to hear the song.

jeff’s mini-module

the society of the spectacle by guy debord

in the shadow of the silent majorities by jean baudrillard

the administration of fear by paul virilio

the day after (1983 television film) (dir. nicholas meyer)

dead man (1995) (dir. jim jarmusch)

the thin red line (1998) (dir. terrence malick)

reading list for season nine

land of milk and honey by c. pam zhang

the overstory by richard powers

something new under the sun by alexandra kleeman

barn 8 by deb olin unferth

fever dream by samanta schweblin

square wave by mark de silva

the glacier by jeff wood

the man with the compound eyes by wu ming-yi

the deluge by stephen markley

drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk