Craftwork S1E8: Obsession, Transgression, & the Library of Gestures w/ Maryse Meijer

In this interview, we chat with Maryse Meijer about metaphor, quotation marks, the dubious necessity of author photos, and so much more.

Maryse Meijer is the author of Heartbreaker, Rag, Northwood, and The Seventh Mansion. She lives in Chicago.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

Samuel Beckett: A Biography – Deirdre Bair
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
About Schmidt – Louis Begley
Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson
New Grub Street – George Gissing
The Children of the Dead; Greed; The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
Pet Sematary – Stephen King
Bad Brains; The Cipher; Kink; Skin; Strange Angels – Kathe Koja
The Communicating Vessels – Friederike Mayröcker
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
Hurricane Season; Paradais – Fernanda Melchor
The Defense; Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Black Water; Blonde; Heat; My Sister, My Love; “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”; Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates
With the Animals – Noëlle Revaz
Snake Eyes – Rosamond Smith
The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton

Author Photo Credit: Lewis McVey