On this last and somewhat longer episode of The Writer and the Critic for 2023, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin by discussing the television adaptation of Slow Horses as well as the new Mike Flanagan series, The Fall of the House of Usher. No prizes for guessing which one Kirstyn did not like and which one she adored.
The books up for discussion this month are After the Forest by Kell Woods [13:35] and I am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moor [54:20].
This review by Parul Sehgal of I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home in The New Yorker is highly recommended if you are able to access it.
If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:21:55 for final remarks.
Next episode will be February 2024 and the two books on the slab will be:
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Episode 105: The Glutton | Days of Innocence and Wonder
A short and somewhat sad message to our listeners
Episode 104: The Haunting of Hill House | A Haunting on the Hill
Episode 102: The Broken Shore | Slow Horses
Episode 101: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams | The Saint of Bright Doors
Episode 100: The Book of Accidents | Conquest
Episode 99: The Trees Grew Because I Bled There | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Episode 98: The Terraformers | Sing, Nightingale
Episode 97: LOTE | Animal Life
Episode 96: Every Version of You | The Women Could Fly
Episode 95: January Fifteenth | Patricia Wants to Cuddle
Episode 94: Helpmeet | Our Wives Under the Sea
Episode 93: Such a Pretty Smile | Checkout 19
Episode 92: Dance Move | Ariadne, I Love You
Episode 91: Manhunt | And Then I Woke Up
Episode 90: Devotion | The School for Good Mothers
Episode 89: I Would Haunt You if I Could | Shit Cassandra Saw
Episode 88: The Wych Elm | My Phantoms
Episode 87: When We Cease to Understand the World | A Ghost in the Throat
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