| Hello, book clubbers, Well! This week has been approximately 10,000 years long, hasn't it? If you want election coverage, you know where to go. And if you need a little break, well, that's what we're here for. Last week, we met up with Silvia Moreno-Garcia to talk about Mexican Gothic. Now, we've got a video of the conversation up for you to watch, along with a transcript of some of the highlights. Moreno-Garcia got very nitty-gritty on the nuances of the gothic and on cool mushroom facts, so truly this was my kind of talk. Enjoy! And because you are a loyal newsletter subscriber, you get to see our … | | | NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE (SORT OF) | | | As is now book club tradition, I asked Silvia what she is reading these days. Her answer was extremely on-theme: The one that I've been recommending has been Tender Is the Flesh, which is a translation of an Argentinian novel. It is about cannibalism. Cannibalism in this dystopian future is legal, so people eat meat, and people are farmed for meat. I don't want people to think that I am a cannibal! This is a problem when I show my list. But also, Alma Katsu, The Hunger. I just started it, and it's about the Donner party. When they went from the United States, they were heading towards California, I think they got caught in the mountains, and I guess they ate each other. So that happened. So yeah, two kinds of cannibalism. | | | | | This November, we're reading Trust Exercise by Susan Choi! Here's what our schedule looks like: Friday, November 20: Discussion post on Trust Exercise Monday, November 30: Virtual live event with author Susan Choi. We'll send you an RSVP link as soon as it's available. | | | | | This week, I took a look at how questions of work, optimization, and self-care have played out in recent pop culture, including in Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even and a reissue of Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals. I'd recommend taking a read through Lorde in particular, if only because the book is one of the places where she developed her ideas of radical self-care, and looking at what happened there is a reminder that there is no subversive idea capitalism can't appropriate, make slightly dumber, and then sell back to you. Happy reading! —Constance | | | |
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