A Meal of Thorns 05 – THE EMPLOYEES with A.V. Marraccini
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Credits:
- Guest: A.V. Marraccini
- Title: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
References:
- Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor
- Anton Hur’s Toward Eternity and Casella’s review
- A.V.’s forthcoming book, These New Fragilities
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-Stars
- Presses discussed:
- Lolli Editions
- New Directions
- FSG Press
- Fitzarraldo
- Seven Stories
- Tor
- Inside the Castle
- Kristina Carlson’s Eunuch translated from the Finnish by Mikko Alapuro
- Psychedlic Ray Bradbury covers
- Jenny Hval’s novels, such as Paradise Rot
- Samuel R. Delany
- Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors
- Gretchen Felker-Martin Manhunt and Cuckoo
- John Trefry
- Olga Ravn's My Work
- Lea Guldditte Hestelund's sculpture
- Interview with Ravn about Hestelund
- Le Guin's Carrier Bag theory of fiction
- Arthur C. Clarke/Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
- Stanislaw Lem’s Fiasco
- Angélica Gorodischer
- Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
- Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner
- Battlestar Galactica
- Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
- Jorge Luis Borges & Italo Calvino
- E. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of Stars
- Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
- Ravn's Twitter @OlgaRavn
- AV on Twitter @saintsoftness
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