Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Studies" podcast join us for a whirling discussion of Edgar Allan Poe’s mesmerizing tale of decadence and disease “The Masque of the Red Death." We also talk about weird fiction more generally, why it’s so suited to the short story genre, how it creates a mood that drips and bursts from the seam of the page.
Plus David and Tamler in the opening segment talk about Aella’s data-driven, chart and graph filled birthday orgy. Is she the sex symbol for our times?
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Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")
Episode 263: Free Yoel
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
Episode 261: Death of the Author
Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
Episode 258: Mystic Peeza
Episode 257: Aural Fixation
Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit
Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild
Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can
Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos
Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
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