On Narrative ‘Arks’, the Weird & the Wild, with Julia Perch

Joining today: Julia Perch, a Russian-American psychiatrist, illustrator and writer of the upcoming novel, Umbra
Julia and I first met in an online writing group, where she confessed that she was struggling with some friends and family who felt that her story was either a work of witchcraft or inspired by the devil.
As a tremendous believer in the power of dreams, imagination, and what lives on in the emptiest places of our minds, this hurt her deeply. But still, she was inspired to write; to share the new and weird spaces that her characters occupied.
So join us tonight for a conversation on surreal fiction, Otherness, character ‘arks’ and archetypes, and how the languages we speak can affect the tales that we write.

- J

Show Notes

Paris in the Twentieth Century, by Jules Verne

Butler-Bowdon’s summary on the Collective Unconscious and Jungian Archetypes

Ebert’s review of The Twelve Chairs, with Dom Deluise, Ron Moody, and Frank Langella

The State of Weird, by Helen Marshall, a brief historical review and essay on the genre

A History of God, by Karen Armstrong; N. Katherine Hayles is the author of How We Became Posthuman and related texts, which you might find fascinating as well

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