Shelf Life: Isaac Fellman

Skye talks with trans archivist and author Isaac Fellman about his newest book, Notes from a Regicide, as well as framing devices, gender-as-genre, feeling bad about a document, aesthetic maximalism, Enjolras and Grantaire, and models of goodness.This episodes To Be Read list:

The Princess Bride, William Goldman: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-princess-bride-william-goldman

Borges on Writing, Jorge Luis Borges, N.T. di Giovanni, & Frank McShane: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/borges-on-writing-9780880013680

Aqueduct Press: https://www.aqueductpress.com/

Portraits, John Berger: https://www.versobooks.com/products/151-portraits?srsltid=AfmBOopRe4O0_uB_i9uu6zfEMeCsqjrg0t6Fz2hG5JbkVhNHtiuvdDZc

A Face to the World, Laura Cumming: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-face-to-the-world-on-self-portraits-laura-cumming?variant=32245024489506

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537593/les-miserables-by-victor-hugo-translated-with-notes-by-christine-donougher-introduction-by-robert-tombs-cover-illustrated-by-jillian-tamaki/

The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/81879/the-strangers-child-by-alan-hollinghurst/

The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/line-of-beauty-9781582346106/

"My Father's Fashion Tips," Tom Junod: https://www.gq.com/story/fashion-generation-tips-national-magazine-award

The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Blazing-World/Siri-Hustvedt/9781476747248

The Gormenghast series, Mervyn Peake: https://www.mervynpeake.org/gormenghast/

The Book of the New Sun series, Gene Wolfe: https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-complete-book-of-the-new-sun/?isbn=9781250179111&format=ebook

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