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October 26, 2022 74 mins

I talk with Jeanne Thornton about everything from the history of recorded music to writing as a form of magic.

Some of Jeanne's work:

  • Summer Fun
  • The Black Emerald: Novellas & Stories 
  • The Dream of Doctor Bantam
  • Some of the works/people/etc. mentioned in this episode: 

  • The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson (ofc)
  • I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir by Brian Wilson (with Ben Greenman)
  • Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
  • Calvin and Hobbes
  • We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning 
  • Jeanne Thornton's review of We Had No Rules (on AGOTT)
  • Corinne Manning's review of Summer Fun (at the Brooklyn Rail)
  • Nevada by Imogen Binnie
  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
  • Little Fish by Casey Plett
  • Instar Books
  • Tori Amos Bootleg Webring by Megan Milks
  • The Far Side of Madness by John Weir Perry
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
  • William Gaddis
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando
  • Bishakh Som 
  • Miscellaneous Kisses by Hazel Jane Plante
  • The episode transcript will be uploaded in the not-too-distant future. (Sorry!)

    Photo of Jeanne Thornton by Leslie Weems.

    The podcast theme song is "Tall Girl" by Wares from the album Survival, which you can (and probably should) get via Bandcamp. (This song appears courtesy of Wares and Mint Records.)

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