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208 – Adam Cesare & Making Scary Clowns Great Again
Manage episode 435231321 series 2977606
Send in the clowns. Tell them not to forget their crossbows and chainsaws.
This week our guest is Adam Cesare, who’s Clown in a Cornfield trilogy reaches a climax (I won’t say end) in Book 3: The Church of Frendo. I read all three books in one mad rush and they confounded all of my horror-savvy, slasher-weary expectations. These books are a State of the Nation story for the ages – think George Orwell’s Animal Farm, but with fascist clowns rather than Bolshevik swine.
Adam and I have one of those very Talking Scared conversations. We get into the political and the personal, touching on his time as a teacher, the challenge of empathy, the role of guns in fiction and the rural/urban divide in America.
But also… clowns! Horrible face-painted bastards that they are.
Enjoy.
- The Indian Lake Trilogy (2021-2024), by Stephen Graham Jones
- “The Lottery” (1948), by Shirley Jackson
- Influencer (2024), by Adam Cesare
- Rest Stop (2024), by Nat Cassidy
Support Talking Scared on Patreon
Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com
211 episodes
Manage episode 435231321 series 2977606
Send in the clowns. Tell them not to forget their crossbows and chainsaws.
This week our guest is Adam Cesare, who’s Clown in a Cornfield trilogy reaches a climax (I won’t say end) in Book 3: The Church of Frendo. I read all three books in one mad rush and they confounded all of my horror-savvy, slasher-weary expectations. These books are a State of the Nation story for the ages – think George Orwell’s Animal Farm, but with fascist clowns rather than Bolshevik swine.
Adam and I have one of those very Talking Scared conversations. We get into the political and the personal, touching on his time as a teacher, the challenge of empathy, the role of guns in fiction and the rural/urban divide in America.
But also… clowns! Horrible face-painted bastards that they are.
Enjoy.
- The Indian Lake Trilogy (2021-2024), by Stephen Graham Jones
- “The Lottery” (1948), by Shirley Jackson
- Influencer (2024), by Adam Cesare
- Rest Stop (2024), by Nat Cassidy
Support Talking Scared on Patreon
Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com
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