9. My Sister, the Serial Killer / Middlemarch.

Dear Reader

English - October 17, 2019 20:40 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: 8. Carrying the Fire / City of Girls.

Next Episode: 10. The Innocents / French Exit.

Michael posits that George Eliot’s Middlemarch
(“the most Victorian of Victorian novels”) is the anti-Atlas Shrugged, while
Emily considers just how much thicker blood is than water with Oyinkan
Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.
They talk about sibling bonds, literary awards, adolescent reading habits, and
trying to be a good person.

Show Notes.

Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer.

George Eliot: Middlemarch.

The Spouter-Inn’s episode on Middlemarch
and bonus episode with Michael!

Brittany Runs a Marathon
[trailer].

Virginia Woolf: Orlando.

Megan Gail Coles: Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun
Club.

Michael discusses Megan Gail Coles’s novel in episode
7.

Michael Crummey: The Innocents.

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