185 - POIR 28

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Marked as explicit because of sexual imagery.

Beginning with a brief cloudburst and a coda to the previous episode designed to calm Charles Adrian’s esprit d’escalier, the 28th Page One In Review goes on to look at the first five books from the fourth season of the podcast.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

The Bees by Laline Paull, Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser and Unless by Carol Shields were all discussed at more length in Page One 184. Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima was previously discussed in Page One 122.

You can read an outline of the life of Mary Stewart, a.k.a. Mary Queen of Scots, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots

You can read about Dungeons & Dragons on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons

You can read about Petrópolis, the Brazilian Imperial City, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%C3%B3polis

Another book by Dennis Cooper, Guide, is discussed in Page One 72 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/72-isabelle-schoelcher/).

The books discussed in the main part of this episode were previously discussed in Page One 107 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/107-vera-chok/), Page One 108 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/108-martin-zaltz-austwick/), Page One 109 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/109-helen-zaltzman/), Page One 110 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/110-nancy-crane/) and Page One 111 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/111-griffyn-gilligan/).

Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.

Episode recorded: 6th October, 2020.

Book listing:

A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley (Page One 107)

Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle (Page One 108)

Irma Voth by Miriam Toews (Page One 109)

Insomnia and Song For The Rainy Season from Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (Page One 110)

First Sex (excerpt) and Swimmer from The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper (Page One 111)