A Meal of Thorns 36 – UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD with Eleanor McAdam

Writer, scholar, and academic organizer E.F. McAdam joins to talk about human evolution & extinction, AI, pseudo-science, and much more in Kawakami’s very strange and really quite funny far-future novel. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Eleanor McAdam Title: Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda Host: Jake Casella Brookins Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson References: Current Research in Science Fiction Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Annie Bot by Sierra Greer Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent and Some Desperate Glory Niall Harrison’s Locus review of Under The Eye Of The Big Bird Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model J.G. Ballard Stephen Baxter's Evolution William Hope Hogdson's The Night Land X-Men Isaac Asimov's Foundation Margaret Atwood MaddAddam Trilogy Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Cat's Cradle Erika Swyler's We Lived On The Horizon Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun & Never Let Me Go Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time          Text  - HTML . com Convert your visual text documents to HTML code instantly. Edit and clean your markup with a couple of clicks. How to use the Text to HTML converter? Paste a visual document to the left to convert it to HTML Paste your HTML code it the right to preview the document Press the Clean button to execute the checked HTML cleaning options. Erase the page to get started.