A Meal of Thorns 05 – THE EMPLOYEES with A.V. Marraccini

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More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: A.V. MarracciniTitle: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin AitkenMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, or ArdorAnton Hur’s Toward Eternity and Casella’s reviewA.V.’s forthcoming book, These New FragilitiesNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-StarsPresses discussed:Lolli EditionsNew DirectionsFSG PressFitzarraldoSeven StoriesTorInside the CastleKristina Carlson’s Eunuch translated from the Finnish by Mikko AlapuroPsychedlic Ray Bradbury coversJenny Hval’s novels, such as Paradise RotSamuel R. DelanyVajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright DoorsGretchen Felker-Martin Manhunt and CuckooJohn TrefryOlga Ravn's My WorkLea Guldditte Hestelund's sculptureInterview with Ravn about Hestelund Le Guin's Carrier Bag theory of fictionArthur C. Clarke/Stanley Kubrick’s 2001Stanislaw Lem’s FiascoAngélica GorodischerKim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the FuturePhilip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & Ridley Scott’s BladerunnerBattlestar GalacticaUrsula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of DarknessJorge Luis Borges & Italo CalvinoE. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of StarsStanislaw Lem's SolarisRavn's Twitter @OlgaRavnAV on Twitter @saintsoftness

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