A Meal of Thorns 12 – MELMOTH with Jon Greenaway

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Credits:

• Guest: Jon Greenaway
• Title: Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Jon's latest books: Capitalism: A Horror Story and A Primer On Utopian Philosophy
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Fredric Jameson’s The Years of Theory
• Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo
• Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
• Napoleon Dynamite, dir. Jared Hess
• Carmen Maria Machado, George Saunders
• Leyna Krow’s Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids
• Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
• Perry’s The Essex Serpent and Enlightenment
• Perry’s essay on writing while in pain/on painkillers
• Goethe’s Faust, Dante’s Inferno, the myth of the Wandering Jew
• Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
• Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
• China Mieville's idea of anti-fantasy
• Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
• “participatory anthropology”
• Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
• Wagner’s Parsifal
• God's Not Dead, dir. Harold Cronk
• Heidegger's idea of thrownness (Geworfenheit)
• Philosophical theories of “the gift” and “impossible exchange”
• Christopher Priest’s The Prestige
• Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Slaughterhouse-Five
• Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall and The Saint of Bright Doors
• Premee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning Grass
• Horror Vanguard
• Jon’s Blog & Substack