Mystery Prevails: Lara Levitan

Writer Lara Levitan joins us to talk about sticking to your craft, other authors' influence, and keeping the mystery alive. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Theda Bara, still from Madame Mystery [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Wes Anderson Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson The French Dispatch Annie Baker Janet PlanetJen Beagin Big Swiss Jen Beagin Pretend I'm Dead Jen Beagin Vacuum in the Dark Hans Blumenberg Paradigms for a Metaphorology Svetlana Boym Mark Frost / David Lynch Twin Peaks G. W. F. Hegel Nick Hunt Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence Miranda July All Fours Adam Kelly New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age Abbas Kiarostami Lara Levitan The Secret Sugar Daddies Madame Pamita Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods Simon Morley, ed. The Sublime Kornél Mundruczó White God Orhan Pamuk The Black Book Orhan Pamuk Snow Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies Salman Rushdie Christoph Rüter Hans Blumenberg—The Invisible Philosopher George Saunders Story Club with George Saunders Lowell Sheppard Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan Peter Sloterdijk Critique of Cynical Reason Peter Sloterdijk You Must Change Your Life David Foster Wallace  A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace  The Pale King Ludwig Wittgenstein Rachel Yoder Nightbitch