We’re tracking down the wellspring of “dark academia” in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and plucking on threads that stretch out to current fantasy and science fiction literature, with reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury as our guide. Casella manages to throw some shade at Arrival, somehow, and also references Dumb & Dumber.

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• Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury
• Title: The Secret History
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• • Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide
  • E.J. Swift’s When There Are Wolves Again
  • Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker 
  • Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality
  • Simon Roy's Griz Grobus & A Star Called The Sun
  • Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon
  • Tartt’s The Goldfinch
  • Euripides’ The Bacchae
  • Jane Alison's Meander Spiral Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
  • Roger Ebert's review of Roger Avary’s film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction (which, we didn’t get into this in the episode, is sort of in the Expanded Secret History Universe)
  • Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian
  • Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey
  • J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
  • J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
  • Sofia Samatar's The Practice The Horizon and the Chain
  • R.F. Kuang's Katabasis & Babel
  • Fellman's The Two Doctors Górski
  • Marina & Sergei Dyachenko's Vita Nostra, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey
  • Ceaușescu's bathroom
  • Peter Farrelly’s film Dumb and Dumber
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyles’ Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet
  • Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" vs. Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival
  • Becky Chamber’s To Be Taught if Fortunate
  • Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent
  • Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch
  • "All art is perfectly useless"
  • C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces
  • Samatar's A Stranger In Olondria and The Winged Histories
  • Fellman's The Breath of the Sun
  • Katherin Addison's The Goblin Emperor & sequels
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Roseanna’s Small Press Dispatch series at ARB
  • Roseanna's blog
  • Tolkien's Beowulf & The Tolkien Reader
  • Lina Palera’s Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0*

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