Tag: literature

Craftwork S1E4: Scaffolding, Dionysus, & Mental Bonfires w/ Lindsay Lerman

Listen to Craftwork Episode 4: Scaffolding, Dionysus, & Mental Bonfires w/ Lindsay Lerman.

In this interview, Lindsay Lerman talks about philosophy, procedural knowledge, writing dialogue, and so much more.

Lindsay Lerman is a writer and translator. Her first book, I’m From Nowhere, was published in 2019. Her second book, What Are You, was published in 2022. Her first translation was published in 2023. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She is working on a novel, a philosophy manuscript, and here and there, some screenplays. She lives in Berlin.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene – Jodey Castricano
  • James and the Giant Peach; The BFG; Matilda – Roald Dahl
  • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections – C. G. Jung
  • The Cipher – Kathe Koja
  • The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Seventh Mansion – Maryse Meijer
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Craftwork S1E3: Magic Realism, Intertextuality, & Making it Beautiful w/ William Ping

Check out episode #3 of Craftwork, featuring William Ping. William talks with Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer about historical fiction, hauntology, Animal Crossing, and so much more.

William Ping is a novelist and journalist, born and raised in St. John’s. His debut novel Hollow Bamboo was published by HarperCollins in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the BMO Winterset Award, and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award as well as being longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He has previously been published in ‘Us, Now,’ Hard Ticket and Riddle Fence. William is also known for his contributions to CBC News, where he can most often be heard reading the news.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Waiting for Godot; Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  • Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 – Cassie Brown and Harold Horwood
  • The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers
  • The Wapshot Chronicle – John Cheever 
  • Trust Exercise – Susan Choi
  • A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  • Less Than Zero; American Psycho; Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis
  • The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • Open – Lisa Moore
  • Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different – Chuck Palahniuk
  • Son of a Trickster – Eden Robinson 
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio – Pu Songling
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Craftwork S1E2: Agency, Microtensions, & Mythic Resonance w/ Randy Nikkel Schroeder

In this interview, Randy Nikkel Schroeder talks about noir, character possession, Biblical frisson, and so much more. Listen here.

Randy Nikkel Schroeder is the author of Arctic Smoke (NeWest), Crooked Timber: Seven Suburban Faerie Tales (Green Magpie), and over fifty published short stories. In his spare time, he is professor of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Queenpin; The Turnout; You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
  • Poetics – Aristotle
  • Book of Greek Myths – Ingri d’Aulaire & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
  • Save the Cat! Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody
  • Dave Robicheaux novels – James Lee Burke
  • The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know – Shawn Coyne
  • Neuromancer – William Gibson
  • Attack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing – Douglas Glover
  • Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
  • Winter’s Tale – Mark Helprin
  • The Lottery and Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
  • Rose Madder – Stephen King
  • Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
  • The Magician’s Nephew – C. S. Lewis
  • Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen – Robert McKee
  • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different – Chuck Palahniuk
  • Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  • Old Testament – Various authors

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The Edge of the Edge: A Numinous Conversation with Mike Thorn and Kathe Koja

“Over the past few years I’ve had the privilege of enjoying an ongoing dialogue with one of my major creative influences, award-winning writer Kathe Koja. Two years ago, she and I discussed genre and process during the virtual launch for my second short story collection, Peel Back and See. Last year, we discussed our work’s relationship with cinema for In Review Online. While brainstorming about topics for future conversations, we decided to pursue the concept of numinosity: its permutations in literature in film and the role it plays in our own creative projects. This article is the result of our email thread on the subject.”

Read the full article.

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Mike Thorn’s Favorite First Reads of 2021

Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors, by Scarlett R. Algee (2020)

The Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire [edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews, multiple editors] (1857)

The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett (1953)

Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film, by Mark Bernard (2014)

The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, by John Cheever (1964)

On the Heights of Despair, by E. M. Cioran [translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston] (1933)

The Trouble with Being Born, by E. M. Cioran [translated by Richard Howard] (1973)

Porno Valley, by Philip Elliott (2021)

Less Than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis (1985)

The Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis (1987)

American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis (1991)

The Informers, by Bret Easton Ellis (1994)

Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis (1998)

Lunar Park, by Bret Easton Ellis (2005)

Imperial Bedrooms, by Bret Easton Ellis (2010)

The Shards, by Bret Easton Ellis (2021)

Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)

The Queer Art of Failure, by J. Jack Halberstam (2011)

In the Presence of Schopenhauer, by Michel Houellebecq [translated by Andrew Brown] (2017)

Humanimus, by David Huebert (2020)

The Damned, by J. K. Huysmans [translated by Terry Hale] (1891)

The Europeans, by Henry James (1878)

Washington Square, by Henry James (1880)

The Bostonians, by Henry James (1886)

Ghost Stories, by Henry James (1898)

Billy Summers, by Stephen King (2021)

The Wingspan of Severed Hands, by Joe Koch (2020)

Straydog, by Kathe Koja (2002)

The Blue Mirror, by Kathe Koja (2004)

Dark Factory, by Kathe Koja (2022; forthcoming)

I’m from Nowhere, by Lindsay Lerman (2019)

Shock!, by Richard Matheson (1961)

The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (1952)

The Running Trees, by Amber McMillan (2021)

The Seventh Mansion, by Maryse Meijer (2020)

Circles, by Josiah Morgan (2020)

The Barrens, by Joyce Carol Oates (2001)

1984, by George Orwell (1949)

White is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi (2009)

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, by Arthur Schopenhauer [translated by Judith

Norman and Alistair Welchman] (1818)

Wes Craven: Interviews, edited by Shannon Blake Skelton (2019)

Of One Pure Will, by Farah Rose Smith (2019)

The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (1992)

A History of Touch, by Erin Emily Ann Vance (2022; forthcoming)

Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West (1933)

The Ax, by Donald E. Westlake (1997)

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