A Meal of Thorns 12 – MELMOTH with Jon Greenaway

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Jon GreenawayTitle: Melmoth by Sarah PerryHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Jon's latest books: Capitalism: A Horror Story and A Primer On Utopian PhilosophyEdgar Allen PoeFredric Jameson’s The Years of TheorySally Rooney’s IntermezzoRoberto Bolaño’s The Savage DetectivesNapoleon Dynamite, dir. Jared HessCarmen Maria Machado, George SaundersLeyna Krow’s Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable VoidsCharles Maturin's Melmoth the WandererPerry’s The Essex Serpent and EnlightenmentPerry’s essay on writing while in pain/on painkillersGoethe’s Faust, Dante’s Inferno, the myth of the Wandering JewMatthew Lewis’s The MonkHorace Walpole’s The Castle of OtrantoChina Mieville's idea of anti-fantasyMark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves“participatory anthropology”Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulWagner’s ParsifalGod's Not Dead, dir. Harold CronkHeidegger's idea of thrownness (Geworfenheit)Philosophical theories of “the gift” and “impossible exchange”Christopher Priest’s The PrestigeRoberto Bolaño’s 2666Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Slaughterhouse-FiveVajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall and The Saint of Bright DoorsPremee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning GrassHorror VanguardJon’s Blog & Substack