A Meal of Thorns 57- THE WATER STATUES with Langdon Hickman - A Meal of Thorns | Lyssna här

A deeply strange and arresting short novel, The Water Statues defies easy categorization but has a powerful and cerebral atmosphere, putting us in mind of a lot of other works—including Clarke’s Piranesi. Langdon Hickman, last unshriven host of Death // Sentence, joins to discuss.

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Guest: Langdon Hickman
Title: The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Gini Alhedeff
Host:Jake Casella Brookins
Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
Artwork byRob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

Recent episodes with other Death // Sentence hosts (Sisyphean with Gareth Watkins & Diaspora with Eden Kupermintz)
Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume
Roberto Bolaño
W.G. Sebald'sAusterlitz & The Rings of Saturn
Hugo Nominees, UKLG Nominees
Frank Herbert’s Dune
Holism vs reductivist materialism
Object oriented ontology & speculative realists
Nick Land, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton
Set theory
Jacques Derrida on “logos”
Greg Egan's Incandescence & related stories
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen
Kim Stanley Robin’s Aurora (AMOT episode w/ Hilary Strang)
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy of Djinn and Miskatonic
M.R. James
Eugene Thacker’s An Ideal For Living
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi(AMOT episode w/Misha Grifka Wander) & Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Hemingway’s “Iceberg theory”
Lydia Davis, Samuel Beckett
Decadent & Aesthetic movements
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
Negative Capability
Keats’ letter to Richard Woodhouse, October 1818
Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sofia Samatar
David Michell’s Cloud Atlas (AMOT episode with Abigail Nussbaum)
William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”
Jorge Luis Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
Hilary Putnam
The Caretaker by Doon Arbus
Death // Sentence
Treble Zine
Consequence of Sound
Langdon's newsletter

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