Ancillary Review editors Jake Casella Brookins and Misha Grifka Wander discuss Susanna Clarke's PIRANESI: epistolary realism and the novel, numinous personhood, and glimpses of utopia in rejecting capitalist expectations.

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Credits:

Guest: Misha Grifka Wander

Title: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia

Artwork by Rob Patterson

Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Misha’s interviews with Sofia Samatar and Vajra Chandrasekera
• Exordia by Seth Dickinson
• Arrival (Villeneuve’s adaptation of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”)
• Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman
• Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
• Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven’s film adaptation)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Through the Looking Glass & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Christopher Nolan’s Memento
• Philosopher’s including John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Rawls
• Augustine’s Confessions
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
• The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
• David Lynch’s Twin Peaks
• Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective

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